Medical Laboratory Technician (MLT) PRN

Join St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in Lewiston, Idaho—where nationally recognized quality meets small-town heart. We’re proud to be recognized for excellence and patient safety, including an “A” Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group, inclusion in Becker’s list of “Great Community Hospitals,” and U.S. News & World Report accolades for maternity care.
Here, you’ll find a teamwork-first culture, leaders who support you, and coworkers who genuinely have your back. New grads are welcome—we’re committed to training, mentoring, and helping you build confidence as you grow. And because we know great care starts with taking care of our people, we offer competitive benefits and a workplace you can feel good about.
If you’re looking for a place to do meaningful work, build a career, and feel proud serving your community—you belong at St. Joe’s

The work location for this position is Lewiston, Idaho

This is a PRN position (On-Call - No Benefits) - you will receive an additional 15% PRN pay in lieu of benefits

Hours: Hiring for day, evening & night shifts

Position Summary:

A Medical Technologist or Medical Laboratory Technician is responsible for performing diagnostic tests on biological samples to provide medical information that assists medical professionals to diagnose, treat, and prevent disease. They must have excellent organizational skills, critical thinking, and troubleshooting skills. The Medical Technologist or Technician must work comfortably under pressure while multi-tasking in a fast-paced environment and can effectively react to emergency situations.

Primary (Essential) Duties:

• Performs all complexity testing in the clinical laboratories.
• Possesses skills to operate, calibrate, maintain and troubleshoot analyzers and other lab equipment.
• Demonstrates competence in all laboratory procedures sufficient to perform at a satisfactory level.
• Uses good judgement and decision making to ensure accuracy and quality of laboratory tests
• Performs preventative maintenance on laboratory equipment or instruments.
• Performs troubleshooting procedures as needed.
• Recognizes test inconsistencies and takes appropriate corrective action. Provides assistance to laboratory co-workers in resolution with similar problems. Seeks assistance from Supervisory/Lead Tech, Director of the Laboratory, or Pathologist
• Promotes good patient Provider, and all organizational department relations as demonstrated by positive interaction.
• Coordinates workflow/workload as necessary to ensure timely and accurate reporting of results.
• Reviews and adheres to all policies and procedures.
• Performs proficiency testing (PT) as required.
• Assists with maintenance of procedure manual and communication of changes to testing staff.
• Assists in gathering data for validations and other laboratory compliance.
• Assists with activities to support the Laboratory Information System and software changes.
• Assists with maintaining an adequate inventory supply.
• Assists in the training and competency of all laboratory assistant and technical staff.
• Assists in quality assurance and proficiency testing activities.
• Uses knowledge of quality control to review and evaluate test or instrument performance.
• Assists with gathering quality control data for periodic review and troubleshooting
• Reviews quality control data as requested by managerial staff.     
• Performs all Phlebotomy duties when needed.
• Performs all additional duties assigned

Scion Health considers a consistently positive, cooperative, self-motivated, courteous, and professional attitude to be an essential function of every position.  While different positions have different primary areas of responsibility, everyone needs to work as a team, and we expect all employees to roll up their sleeves and pitch in as necessary to get the job done.

Employees must be able to relate to other people beyond giving and receiving instructions: (a) can get along with co-workers or peers without exhibiting behavioral extremes, (b) perform work activities requiring negotiating, instructing, supervising, persuading, or speaking with others; and (c) respond appropriately to constructive feedback from a supervisor.

While this job is intended to be an accurate reflection of the requirements of the job, management reserves the right to add or remove duties from particular jobs when circumstances (e.g., emergencies, changes in workload, rush jobs or technological developments) dictate.

Required Education:

• A bachelor's or associate degree from an accredited college or university in Medical Technology, related science field, or equivalent Military training.

Required Licenses and/or Certification

• ASCP or AMT certification or eligible

Required knowledge, skills, and abilities

• Knowledge of MS office applications (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Email software. Is able to operate basic office equipment such as telephones, computers, fax, and copy machines. Must have experience with electronic health records and laboratory information systems.
• Reasoning Ability:  Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret a variety of technical instructions.
• Language Ability: Ability to read and interpret documents and instructions. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence and speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of the organization.