Clinical Laboratory Scientist
Job Summary
Talented Medical Solutions is seeking a Clinical Laboratory Scientist for a contract position in In-Office at San Luis Obispo, CA, United States. The position offers variable shifts, including 4x10 hour shifts with rotating days off and weekend coverage. The start times are flexible, ranging from 6:00 to 21:00, with varying end times.
About the Role
Nestled on the Central California Coast, our facility in Sierra Vista has been providing care to our community since 1959. We offer a 162-bed acute care facility with a Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and a county-designated trauma center. San Luis Obispo offers a vibrant community life, with easy access to natural hot springs in Avila Beach and scenic dunes in Pismo Beach.
Responsibilities
- Prioritizes and performs a wide variety of clinical laboratory tests on various biological specimens.
- Reviews, evaluates, documents and reports results.
- Preserves confidentiality of patients and follows lab safety and maintenance protocols.
- Trains and supervises trainees, laboratory assistants and clerks as needed.
Requirements
- Education and Work Experience: Bachelor's Degree in medical technology, clinical laboratory science, biological sciences, chemical sciences or allied health technologies or equivalent.
- Clinical laboratory experience: Preferred.
- Licenses/Certifications: Valid Clinical Laboratory Scientist (CLS) license in state of employment, and current certification from American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) or National Credentialing Agency for Labs (NCA).
Qualifications
- Employs positive patient identification procedures to ensure the integrity of each specimen for pre-analytical, analytical and post-analytical testing.
- Performs proper specimen collection (including phlebotomy procedures as necessary), labeling, handling, preservation or fixation, processing or preparation, transportation and storage.
- Adheres to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and other patient confidentiality guidelines and regulations.
- Prioritizes lab orders according to type (STAT, ASAP, routine and timed studies) and performs various testing (including chemistry, coagulation, hematology, special chemistry, urinalysis, blood bank, serology, immunology, bacteriology, microbiology, referral testing and more) following prescribed quality assurance policies and procedures.
- Performs, evaluates and documents quality control checks.
- Reviews testing results evaluating validity of test results in comparison to anticipated results indicated per procedure manual.
- Reviews and evaluates the validity and accuracy of test results, recognizing the interdependency of tests, the physiological conditions affecting results, patient age and normal values, controls, linearity errors, instrument codes, delta checks and more.
- Correlates test results with diagnoses and questions incompatible results.
- Thoroughly documents and communicates test results, expediting all critical values and results to appropriate clinicians.
- Disposes of contaminated materials and equipment in accordance with policy and assures that work area is properly cleansed after each test.
- Performs equipment and instrumentation maintenance, troubleshooting and calibration as needed.
- Inventories and restocks reagents, calibrators, controls and supplies as needed.
- Participates in the collection and evaluation of data for Performance Improvement evaluations.
- Documents adverse events using incident reporting tool.
- Orients, instructs and supervises laboratory assistants and clerks as needed.
Skills
Must have CLS cert. 1 year of experience preferred. EPIC Beaker Experience a must.
Benefits
No Call. Hospital Total Bed Count: 162. 6 – 1630, 9 – 1930, 1330 – 0000, 2100 – 0700. Call Required? No. Weekend Coverage Required? Same as weekday schedule. EMR System: Cerner. Phlebotomy; 24/7. Special Equipment Used on This Unit: Beckman Coulter DxC, Sysmex XN, Siemens CS2500, Cephied GeneXpert. Scrubs: Not provided. No color requirement.
Pay
Variable Shift, 4 x 10s, rotating shift/including weekends. Start times vary - 6:00, 9:00, 13:30, and 21 if needed.
Schedule
Variable Shift, 4 x 10s, rotating shift/including weekends. Start times vary - 6:00, 9:00, 13:30, and 21 if needed.