Medical Laboratory Scientist - PT20 hours - Thurs - Fri 7am - 5:30pm

Join MD Anderson's Point of Care Testing (POCT) Laboratory as a part-time Medical Laboratory Scientist and help ensure accurate, reliable testing wherever patients receive care. Based at our Main Campus, you'll support point-of-care testing operations across the institution, including our Missouri City and Northwest locations as needed. Your technical expertise will help maintain testing quality, support clinical teams, and ensure timely results that inform patient care at one of the world's leading cancer centers.

What's in it for you? This part-time opportunity of 20 hours per week offers the chance to apply your laboratory expertise in a specialized role that combines technical testing, quality assurance, troubleshooting, and education. You'll monitor point-of-care testing operations, review quality control data, address testing exceptions, troubleshoot equipment, and help validate new tests, methodologies, devices, and software. You'll also work with laboratory systems, Excel, and point-of-care middleware to support accurate reporting, reliable connectivity, and effective management of patient testing data.

You'll serve as an important technical resource for healthcare professionals across multiple clinical areas. You'll train and assess the competency of nurses, physicians, operating room staff, respiratory technicians, and other personnel performing point-of-care testing. From maintaining training records and delivering supplies and reagents to clinical units to performing quality checks, supporting IQCP requirements, and conducting routine reviews of testing operations, you'll help ensure testing practices meet established quality and regulatory standards. You'll also participate in process improvement initiatives, mentor colleagues, and perform operating room laboratory testing when needed.

This role is ideal for a detail-oriented laboratory professional who enjoys working independently, solving technical challenges, and partnering with clinical teams to maintain high standards of testing quality. With a part-time schedule and the opportunity to support multiple locations, you'll contribute to an essential laboratory service while expanding your technical and training expertise. MD Anderson offers competitive pay, an annual merit increase program, annual incentive opportunities, an employer-funded pension contribution, medical, dental and vision coverage, generous paid time off, and opportunities for professional growth and development.

Bring your laboratory expertise, problem-solving skills, and commitment to quality to a team that helps deliver accurate point-of-care results and supports exceptional cancer care across MD Anderson.

The hours for this position are Thursday & Friday 7am - 5:30pm. This position will be located out of our main location but will travel to support our Missouri City & Northwest locations, as needed

JOB SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES

Performs all laboratory testing specific to the assigned section.
- Remains knowledgeable and competent for all policies, procedures and protocols.
- Ensures and verifies quality control data is appropriate for the complexity of the reported tests and prepare corrective actions as required.
- Troubleshoots and maintains laboratory equipment.
- Validates and evaluates new methodologies and tests. sets up connectivity with the help of technical support.
- Follows section's inventory control system to assure effective use of supplies and reagents.
- Demonstrates ability to perform all duties of the technical consultant including but not limited to initial training and competency on new medical laboratory scientists and health care providers on POC Testing according to the guidelines in procedure, maintaining training records according to CAP, CLIA and The Joint Commission guidelines, maintain supplies and deliver POC reagents to the units, etc.
- Completes, verifies and reports testing in a timely manner
- Complies with safety guidelines and procedures and adheres to regulatory mandates. - Remains responsible and accountable for all actions.
- Manages all customer service interactions with diplomacy, actively facilitating resolutions to problems and addressing the needs of clients both internal and external.
- Maintains proficiency on computer functions in the lab processes including but not limited to excel and different POC middleware.
- Analyzes and evaluates patient results correctly and appropriately to address Telcor Exceptions
- Stores patient information and results to allow easy future access as required.
- Perform OR Lab tests when needed.

Enhances productivity and laboratory lab functions by demonstrating dependability.
- Adjusts, prioritizes, and organizes work to achieve maximum productivity to meet the workload demands of the section.
-Monitor POC operations by daily review of the POC database and quality checks rounds to the units performing POC testing.
- Assists peers and supervisors with tasks after completion of assigned work.
- Adheres to attendance policy, begins work as scheduled.
- Works independently, utilizes resources available to maximize efficiency.

Assists in the development of laboratory personnel and tests, to enhance laboratory functions.
- Accurately trains and competency checks nurses, OR staff, physicians, respiratory techs and other staff requiring the need to perform Point of Care Testing. - Participates in process improvement projects.
- Participate in new POC devices validation.
- Perform and monitor the Quality Checks required according to POC device including but not limited to IQCP requirements.
- Validates database for new software or new tests implemented in the laboratory.
- Coaches and mentors' students and employees.

Other duties as assigned

Required:
• Associate's Degree in Laboratory Science or Medical Laboratory Technology OR
• Bachelor's Degree in a related science field or Molecular Genetic Technology OR
• Successful completion of a National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Science (NAACLS) accredited Clinical Laboratory Science/Molecular Genetic Technology accredited program

Required Experience:
• 2 years of clinical laboratory experience with an Associate's Degree in Laboratory Science or Medical Laboratory Technology
• 1 year of clinical laboratory experience with a Bachelor's Degree in a related science field
• No experience required with completion of a NAACLS-accredited Clinical Laboratory Science/Molecular Genetic Technology accredited program

Preferred:
• ASCP - American Society of Clinical Pathologist Technologist/Scientist/Specialist certification OR
• CHS - Certified Histocompatibility Specialist, American College of Histocompatibility & Immunogenetics (ACHI) OR
• CHT - Certified Histocompatibility Technologist, American College of Histocompatibility & Immunogenetics (ACHI) OR
• MDT - Molecular Diagnostics Tech, American Medical

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center offers excellent benefits, including medical, dental, paid time off, retirement, tuition benefits, educational opportunities, and individual and team recognition.

This position may be responsible for maintaining the security and integrity of critical infrastructure, as defined in Section 113.001(2) of the Texas Business and Commerce Code and therefore may require routine reviews and screening. The ability to satisfy and maintain all requirements necessary to ensure the continued security and integrity of such infrastructure is a condition of hire and continued employment.

It is the policy of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center to provide equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by institutional policy or by federal, state, or local laws unless such distinction is required by law.