Senior Medical Technologist

Job Description

Job Description

Overview

Shriners Children's St. Louis has an opportunity for a full-time Senior Medical Technologist. In this position, you will be responsible for assisting with daily activities, providing technical leadership for clinical staff, supporting diagnostic activities, and ensuring patient satisfaction, quality care and regulatory/accreditation standards are achieved.

Responsibilities

The Senior Medical Technologist leads the way for the clinical lab team.

• Performs pre-analytic, and analytic and post-analytic procedures, exercising independent judgement and responsibility
  • Assesses and resolves test and blood product orders, resolving unclear or duplicate requests
  • Collects blood on outpatients and effectively receives and processes all specimen types.
  • Orders reference test procedures and prepares for courier pick-up in a timely manner.
  • Appropriately performs and analyzes calibrations and quality control procedures
  • Competently performs all in-house tests within established timeframes
  • Recognizes unusual test results or test system performance issues and takes necessary action for resolution
  • Notifies the appropriate clinical staff of critical values within established timeframes
  • Stores and retains records as required by hospital policies
  • Communicates in an appropriate and timely manner with staff; seeks input, provides accurate information and makes recommendations for policy and/or practice change
  • Monitors, controls, evaluates and reports departmental expenditures for salary, equipment and supplies

• Provides oversight of technical laboratory operations
  • Plans and utilizes resources within the department to maximize efficiency
  • Participates in the evaluation and selection of methods, equipment and supplies
  • Resolves basic equipment problems or malfunctions , overseeing the maintenance and serving as a resource to staff
  • Reviews patient results as well as related records such as quality control and instrument correlations
  • Writes, reviews and modifies department policies and procedures as needed
  • Assists management in survey readiness for external audits, ensuring compliance with accrediting agencies and regulatory requirement
  • Maintains inventory/supplies necessary for testing purposes
  • Monitors compliance with laboratory and hospital-wide safety, reducing potential area of risk
  • Responds and acts on safety recommendations

Note: This is not an all-inclusive list of this job’s responsibilities. The incumbent may be required to perform other related duties and participate in special projects as assigned.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor of Medical Technology, Clinical Laboratory Science or Science
• 5 years Clinical Laboratory experience
• MLT (ASCP), CLS or Equivalent certification
• Med. Tech license in state of practice

Preferred:

• 2 years Management/Supervisory experience