Medical Laboratory Technician or Scientist

About the role

Become part of Essentia’s accomplished team where our mission guides us every day: We are called to make a healthy difference in people’s lives. This calling resonates deeply for our caregivers and our colleagues working behind the scenes, who all bring high-quality, compassionate care to the patients we are privileged to serve.

Responsibilities

• Perform and report tests of all complexity levels, as defined by CLIA, on patients of all ages to assist with the routine screening, diagnosis, treatment and management of diseases and injuries.
• Exhibit problem solving skills of a complex nature.
• Participate in Quality Assurance and Quality Control Monitoring.
• Perform instrumentation maintenance and troubleshooting.
• Conduct specimen processing and phlebotomy.
• Provide customer service.
• Interpret and correlate test results with disease states and theoretical knowledge (MLS only).
• Participate in research, development, education, and technical consultation (MLS only).

Education Qualifications

• MLT:
  • Associate’s degree in Medical Laboratory Technician, or
  • Meets CLIA guidelines for the complexity of laboratory testing for alternative route.
• MLS:
  • Four-year degree in Clinical Laboratory Science, or
  • MLT (ASCP) certified with additional semester hours in clinical laboratory equivalents from an accredited school and 2 years of full-time lab experience, and certified as an MLS (ASCP).

Licensure/Certification Qualifications

• MLT: Certification as a Medical Laboratory Technician by the American Society of Clinical Pathology (ASCP) or equivalent is required within one year from the date of hire.
• MLS: Certification as a Medical Laboratory Scientist by the American Society of Clinical Pathology (ASCP) is required within one year from the date of hire.