Medical Lab Scientist 2- Microbiology

About the role

Located in Nashville, Tennessee, Vanderbilt University Medical Center is a community dedicated to advancing health and wellness through teaching, discovery, and patient care. As part of Vanderbilt Health, this role is committed to excellence in infectious disease specimen receiving.

Responsibilities

• Performs routine and complex clinical pathology testing and instrument management of laboratory services.
• Accurately records results and ensures timely delivery of results.
• Accurately performs qualitative and quantitative analytical procedures, including reagent preparation and quality control.
• Demonstrates knowledge of techniques, principles, and instruments and their interrelationships as well as physiological conditions affecting test results.

Technical Capabilities

• Data Analysis (Novice): Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to demonstrate data analysis in practical applications of moderate difficulty.
• Quality Assurance (Novice): Provides continuous analysis and evaluation of assignment work processes, striving for improvement in task execution.
• Equipment Maintenance (Novice): Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to maintain equipment, products, or systems in practical applications of moderate difficulty.
• Diagnostics Testing (Novice): Demonstrates proficiency of diagnostic testing in practical applications.
• Mentoring & Coaching (Novice): Constructsively trains and mentors others by providing positive direction and feedback.

Core Accountabilities

• Organizational Impact: Executes job responsibilities with understanding of how output would affect and impact other areas related to own job area/team with occasional guidance.
• Problem Solving/Complexity of work: Analyzes moderately complex problems using technical experience and judgment.
• Breadth of Knowledge: Has expanded knowledge gained through experience within a professional area.
• Team Interaction: Provides informal guidance and support to team members.

Core Capabilities

• Serving Others with Compassion: Seeks to understand current and future needs of relevant stakeholders and customizes services to better address them.
• Solving Complex Problems: Approaches problems from different angles; Identifies new possibilities to interpret opportunities and develop concrete solutions.
• Offering Meaningful Advice and Support: Provides ongoing support and coaching in a constructive manner to increase employees' effectiveness.
• Ensuring High Quality: Performs excellent work; Engages regularly in formal and informal dialogue about quality; directly addresses quality issues promptly.
• Ensuring Continuous Improvement: Applies various learning experiences by looking beyond symptoms to uncover underlying causes of problems and identifies ways to resolve them.
• Fulfilling Safety and Regulatory Requirements: Understands all aspects of providing a safe environment and performs routine safety checks to prevent safety hazards from occurring.
• Managing Resources Effectively: Demonstrates accountability; Applies understanding of the departmental work to effectively manage resources for a department/area.
• Making Data Driven Decisions: Demonstrates strong understanding of the information or data to identify and elevate opportunities.
• Generating New Ideas: Proactively identifies new ideas/opportunities from multiple sources or methods to improve processes beyond conventional approaches.
• Applying Technology: Demonstrates an enthusiasm for learning new technologies, tools, and procedures to address short-term challenges.
• Adapting to Change: Views difficult situations and/or problems as opportunities for improvement; actively embraces change instead of emphasizing negative elements.

Position Qualifications

• Experience Level: Less than 1 year
• Education: Bachelor's
• Certifications: LIC-Medical Laboratory Act - Tennessee, Medical Laboratory Scientist - American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), Medical Technologist - American Medical Technologists (AMT)