Medical Laboratory Technician

Overview

UnityPoint Health- St. Luke's- Downtown

Nights 1900-0530, 4-10hr shifts

Rotating weekends and holidays

As a professional, the Medical Laboratory Technician performs laboratory testing following the established policies and procedures within the laboratory department and UnityPoint Health to aid the physician in the diagnosis and treatment of patients. They are responsible for solving practical and analytical problems, maintaining, and troubleshooting highly complex instrumentation, and must adhere to all quality and regulatory guidelines to ensure the highest quality patient care.

Why UnityPoint Health?

At UnityPoint Health, you matter. We’re proud to be recognized as a Top Place to Work in Healthcare by Becker's Healthcare several years in a row for our commitment to our team members.

Our competitive Total Rewards program offers benefits options focused on your needs and priorities, no matter what life stage you’re in. Here are just a few:    

• Expect paid time off, parental leave, 401K matching and an employee recognition program. • Dental, health and vision insurance, paid holidays, short and long-term disability and more. We even offer pet insurance for your four-legged family members. • Early access to earned wages with Daily Pay, tuition reimbursement to help further your career and adoption assistance to help you grow your family.

With a collective goal to champion a culture of belonging where everyone feels valued and respected, we honor the ways people are unique and embrace what brings us together.  

And, we believe equipping you with support and development opportunities is a vital part of delivering an exceptional employment experience.

Join our team of experts and make a difference with UnityPoint Health.

Responsibilities

• Primary work setting is in a hospital or independent laboratory in a variety of clinical lab departments where they will perform waived, moderate, and high complexity testing. • Prepares biological specimens, arranges and assigns workload by priority.  • Consistently demonstrates attention to detail in following policies related to proper identification and labeling. • Provides accurate laboratory test results within established turnaround time expectations.  • Recognize and troubleshoot, pre-analytic, analytic and postanalytic results. • Makes good independent decisions based upon knowledge of the overall functions, policies, and procedures in the assigned area to ensure accurate and quality patient care • Recognizes and interprets quality control outliers and abnormal patient results • Performs preventative maintenance and troubleshooting on highly complex equipment. • Uses a variety of computer systems for orders, results, tracking, quality control, and problem solving.  • May perform specimen collections from patients of all ages • Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Education:   

• Associate degree in a laboratory science (chemical or biological science) or medical laboratory technology from and accredited institution required.

Experience:   

• Prefer one (1) year of hospital clinical experience or demonstrated clinical efficiency. 

License(s)/Certification(s):

• Certified as a Medical Laboratory Technician by Board of Registry of ASCP or AMT within 1 year, required.