Clinical Laboratory Technologist - FISH

Responsibilities

• Performs clinical laboratory tests proficiently in the department under general supervision, and exercises independent judgment in the specialty assigned.
• Fulfills responsibilities as outlined in the department’s procedures for specimen handling and processing, test analyses, reporting, and maintaining accurate and complete records of all testing performed on-site.
• Maintains records that proficiency testing samples are tested in the same manner as patient specimens.
• Determines the acceptability of specimens for testing, prepares clinical specimens for testing, and identifies specimen related problems according to established SOP guidelines.
• Analyzes specimens using approved testing procedures, reviews, releases test results, and follows department’s procedure in reporting STATS or Critical results to the interpreting physician per department SOP.
• Performs and documents Quality Control on reagents, equipment, and assays. Recognizes and acts on QC failures by consultation or follow-up with the department Supervisor or Lead technologist regarding courses of action taken to achieve resolution.
• Documents all corrective actions taken when test systems deviate from the laboratory’s established performance specifications.
• Prepares stock solutions, reagents, and cocktails used in the laboratory as per established SOP’s. Tests and evaluates them based on standard criteria and documents all observed results.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Medical Technology from an accredited college or university preferred.
• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university in one of the chemical, physical, or biological sciences with the addition of at least one year of laboratory experience/training/training course.
• 1+ years equivalent experience (high complexity testing) preferred.