MLT PRN Variable Schedule

About the role

Lab samples or specimens can hold the answers to a patient’s health problem, suffering or recovery. As a Medical Laboratory Technician, you are the guardian that ensures the proper preparation, collection, preservation, transportation, and testing of samples. Your attention to detail and inquisitive nature are a perfect match for performing clinical laboratory testing of blood and bodily fluids, recording and evaluating findings, and reporting data for use in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. And while you don’t know your patients personally, you take each urine or blood sample personally because it’s the connection to a real person who just wants to feel better, but they can't get there without your help. You love working behind the scenes, because you’re not looking for the limelight, just to shed light.

Responsibilities

• Operate both primary and secondary instrumentation proficiently, ensure specimens are acceptable for testing, and report test results
• Recognize and refer abnormal, unusual and critical results to supervisor
• Maintain knowledge of standard phlebotomy and skin puncture techniques, and appropriate blood processing and handling procedures
• Follow universal precautions, safety and infection control procedures, policies, and reports variances
• Prepare blood components while maintaining aseptic technique and proper storage
• Perform and evaluate serological reactivity and rapid antigen testing
• Perform reagent quality control
• Analyze quality control material for each procedure and record value
• Perform proper processing, compliance, preservation, and shipping of specimens
• Initiate orders for blood and/or blood components
• Operate, calibrate, conduct performance checks and maintain any clinical laboratory instrument or equipment after orientation
• Retrieve results as needed resolving questions to assist nurses, physicians or other hospital personnel
• Check instruments and benches assigned for appropriate reagent and supply levels ensuring adequate inventory levels for incoming shifts

Requirements

• Licensed Clinical Laboratory Scientist (CLS-Technician) through the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners

Schedule

Variable Hours (United States of America)

About the company

LCMC Health is a community. Our people make health happen. While our NOLA roots run deep, our branches are the vessels that carry our mission of bringing the best possible care to every person and parish in Louisiana and beyond and put a little more heart and soul into healthcare along the way. Celebrating authenticity, originality, equity, inclusion and a little “come on in” attitude is the foundation of LCMC Health’s culture of everyday extraordinary.

West Jefferson Medical Center, a cornerstone of LCMC Health’s incredible community of care, is regionally recognized and nationally accredited. For over 60 years, we’ve been the hospital-of-choice on the west bank of Jefferson Parish for health, wellness, and family-centered care. Leapfrog “Grade A” Hospital Safety distinction.

Culture & values

• Deliver healthcare with heart. Give people a reason to smile.
• Put a little love in your work. Be honest and real, but with compassion.
• Bring some lagniappe into everything you do.
• Forget one-size-fits-all, think one-of-a-kind care.
• See opportunities, not problems – it’s all about perspective.
• Cheerlead ideas, differences, and each other.
• Love what makes you, you - because we do. You are welcome here.