Medical Lab Technician

Job Description

Medical Lab Technician (MLT)

Schedule: this is a full-time role that will ideally work 7 on, 7 off graveyard hours from 2030-0630. However, we may also be open to someone who can work rotating shifts, including weekends.


Your experience matters

Castleview Hospital is part of Lifepoint Health, a diversified healthcare delivery network with facilities coast to coast. We are driven by a profound commitment to prioritize your well-being so you can provide exceptional care to others. As a Medical Lab Technician (MLT) joining our team, you're embracing a vital mission dedicated to making communities healthier ®. Join us on this meaningful journey where your skills, compassion and dedication will make a remarkable difference in the lives of those we serve.

How you'll contribute

A Medical Lab Technician (MLT) who excels in this role:

• Performs clinical laboratory tests using manual techniques or automated analyzing equipment in accordance with established laboratory procedures to provide data required to determine patient diagnosis, care, and treatment
• Performs quality control testing.
• Maintains supplies needed for performance of tests.
• Prepares for testing procedures by adding reagents, preparing solutions, making dilutions, spinning blood in centrifuges to separate, staining and mounting slides and collecting specimens following standard laboratory procedures to ensure reliable and accurate test results.
• Completes testing/procedures in a timely manner and input result into the computer system.
• Evaluates validity of results obtained and reports results to appropriate clinical personnel. Reports abnormal or critical results by informing the attending physician or other clinical personnel involved in the patient's care.
• Regularly cleans, performs routine maintenance on, and calibrates instruments and equipment to ensure reliability of test results and observes quality control standards. Assists with care and maintenance of department equipment and inventory of supplies.
• Performs standard hematology procedures as well as more specialized and complex procedures, such as manual differentials on blood and body fluids, fluid cell counts, examination for crystals, semen analysis, etc.
• Inoculates microbiology specimens to the appropriate culture media; prepares, stains and evaluates gram stain slides; and processes specimens and media for transport
• Participates in special procedures inherent in the lab section in which employed. Uses professional judgment and assures a high level of quality and service.
• Understands and assists other staff in the proper use of the LIS in processing patient orders, verifying results either manually or across the interface, retrieving and faxing patient records, etc.

Why join us

We believe that investing in our employees is the first step to providing excellent patient care. In addition to your base compensation, this position also offers:

• Comprehensive Benefits: Multiple levels of medical, dental and vision coverage for full-time and part-time employees.
• Financial Protection & PTO: Life, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity insurance, short- and long-term disability, paid family leave and paid time off.
• Financial & Career Growth: Higher education and certification tuition assistance, loan assistance and 401(k) retirement package and company match.
• Employee Well-being: Mental, physical, and financial wellness programs (free gym memberships, virtual care appointments, mental health services and discount programs).
• Professional Development: Ongoing learning and career advancement opportunities.

What we're looking for

• Education: Must have an associate degree in medical lab science. Provide transcripts or proof of completion.
• Certifications: Basic Life Support (BLS) within 60 days of hire.

Connect with a Recruiter: Not ready to complete an application, or have questions? Please contact Tara by emailing View email address on click.appcast.io.

More about Castleview Hospital

Castleview Hospital is a 39-bed acute care hospital that offers exceptional care to Carbon and Emery counties in the high desert of Eastern Utah. The hospital also includes physician practices in Price, UT and Emery Medical Center - a family practice and urgent care clinic in Castle Dale, Utah.

Castleview Hospital maintains a Gold Seal of Approval® from The Joint Commission, is an Accredited Chest Pain Center, a Stroke designated facility, and has been named a Top 100 and Top 20 rural and community hospital several times.

EEOC Statement

Castleview Hospital is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Castleview Hospital is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity for all applicants and employees and complies with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination and harassment in employment.

About Us

Lifepoint Health is a leader in community-based care and driven by a mission of Making Communities Healthier. Our diversified healthcare delivery network spans 29 states and includes 63 community hospital campuses, 32 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and more than 170 additional sites of care across the healthcare continuum, such as acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers and post-acute care facilities. We believe that success is achieved through talented people. We want to create places where employees want to work, with opportunities to pursue meaningful and satisfying careers that truly make a difference in communities across the country.

About the Team

We employ and provide care to people from all walks of life. We are committed to promoting healing, providing hope, preserving dignity and producing value with an inclusive workforce in which diversity is leveraged, respected, and reflective of the patients, family members, customers and team members we serve.