Clinical Laboratory Scientist | Full Time Regular | Night Shift | Clinical Laboratory 1

About Us

St. Helena Hospital, located in one of the most beautiful regions in the United States, was founded in 1878 and has a rich history of innovative medical care. We are comprised of a 151-bed hospital, emergency department, and medical offices with centers of excellence in specialty care, including the Adventist Heart and Vascular Institute, Coon Joint Replacement Institute, Martin-O'Neil Cancer Center, and Behavioral Health units. Situated in the heart of Napa Valley, St. Helena offers an unsurpassed quality of life with outdoor adventure, luxurious spas, popular restaurants, and easy access to San Francisco or the coast.

Adventist Health is a faith-based, nonprofit, integrated health system serving more than 100 communities on the West Coast and Hawaii with over 440 sites of care, including 27 acute care facilities. Our compassionate and talented team of more than 38,000 includes employees, physicians, Medical Staff, and volunteers driven by the mission of inspiring health, wholeness, and hope.

About the Role

Prioritizes and performs a wide variety of clinical laboratory tests on various biological specimens. Reviews, evaluates, documents, and reports results while preserving patient confidentiality and adhering to lab safety and maintenance protocols. Trains and supervises trainees, laboratory assistants, and clerks as needed.

Responsibilities

• Employs positive patient identification procedures to ensure specimen integrity for pre-analytical, analytical, and post-analytical testing.
• Performs proper specimen collection (including phlebotomy as necessary), labeling, handling, preservation, processing, transportation, and storage.
• Adheres to HIPAA and other patient confidentiality guidelines and regulations.
• Prioritizes lab orders (STAT, ASAP, routine, and timed studies) and performs testing in chemistry, coagulation, hematology, special chemistry, urinalysis, blood bank, serology, immunology, bacteriology, microbiology, and referral testing following quality assurance policies.
• Performs, evaluates, and documents quality control checks; reviews test results for validity compared to anticipated results per procedure manual.
• Evaluates the validity and accuracy of test results, recognizing interdependencies, physiological conditions, patient age, normal values, controls, linearity errors, instrument codes, and delta checks. Correlates results with diagnoses and questions incompatible results.
• Thoroughly documents and communicates test results, expediting critical values to appropriate clinicians.
• Disposes of contaminated materials and ensures the work area is properly cleansed after each test.
• Performs equipment and instrumentation maintenance, troubleshooting, and calibration; inventories and restocks reagents, calibrators, controls, and supplies.
• Participates in Performance Improvement evaluations and documents adverse events using the incident reporting tool.
• Orients, instructs, and supervises laboratory assistants and clerks as needed.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in medical technology, clinical laboratory science, biological sciences, chemical sciences, or allied health technologies or equivalent: Required.
• Clinical laboratory experience: Preferred.
• Valid Clinical Laboratory Scientist (CLS) license in the state of employment: Required in CA.
• Current certification from American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) or National Credentialing Agency for Labs (NCA): Preferred.

Pay

The estimated base pay for this position is $51.09 to $70.07 per hour. Additional individual compensation may be available through differentials, extra shift incentives, bonuses, etc. A comprehensive benefits program is also available for qualifying positions.

Schedule

• Full-time regular position.
• Evening shift.
• 8-hour shift length.