Medical Lab Scientist I

Description: Job Responsibilities:
• Follow the laboratory's procedures for specimen handling and processing, test analyses, reporting and maintaining records of patient test result.
• Maintain records that demonstrate that proficiency testing samples are tested in the same manner as patient specimens.
• Analyze specimens using approved testing procedures.
• Review and release test results.
• Follow CLIA, HIPAA, OSHA, and safety guidelines as described in their respective guidelines.
• Follow the laboratory's established policies and procedures whenever test systems are not within the laboratory's established acceptable levels of performance.
• Identify problems that may adversely affect test performance or reporting of test results, correct the problems encountered or immediately notify the senior technologist or supervisor.
Qualifications
Education:
Bachelor's degree required, degree in Chemistry or Biochemistry strongly preferred
• Transcripts will be requested for review throughout consideration process
Work Experience:
• 1 year Clinical experience (high complexity testing) preferred
• Experience with LC-MS or ICP-MS strongly preferred


Physical and Mental Requirements:
• The normal performance of duties may require lifting and carrying objects: Objects 1 to 10 pounds are lifted and carried frequently; objects 11 to 25 pounds are lifted and carried occasionally; objects 36 to 50 pounds are seldom lifted or carried and objects over 50 pounds are not to be lifted or carried without assistance.
• Ability to stand and work at the bench for long periods of time.
• Frequent walking and/or standing.
• May be required to use a wide variety of manual and automated pipettes and laboratory instruments and apparatuses all of which demand significant manual dexterity.


Custom Fields:
Name: Time Zone
Value: Tuesday - Saturday 9:00 - 5:30
Eastern

Name: Justification for Temp
Value: Fill in for employee who is leaving

Name: Fast Track
Value: None

Name: GLBU-SiteCode
Value: 83800-PVB:Client's-1 Greenwich Pl

Name: Reporting Business Unit (RBU)
Value: 83800:AmeriPath Esoteric Institute

Name: CapEX
Value: None

Name: Is Position Eligible for Remote Work?
Value: No

Name: Is Covid Vaccination Required?
Value: No

Name: Line of Business (LOB)
Value: 350:Anatomic Pathology

Name: State of Credentials/Licenses Required
Value: none

Name: GL Account
Value: 551000|Temp Labor: Agency Taxable (Contingent PA and CT Locations ONLY)

Name: Is this a hospital site that requires additional credentialing?
Value: No

Name: Federal Contract Work in Lab
Value: No