Job Title: Medical Laboratory Scientist
Job Location: Carnegie, PA
Job Duration: 4+ Months
Shift: Mon – Fri, 07:00 AM – 03:30 PM EST
Pay Rate: $30/hr. on W2
Department: Generalist (Chemistry, Hematology, Urinalysis and Microbiology.)
Additional Job Details: Requires 5+ years’ experience.
Job Description:
- Follow the laboratory's procedures for specimen handling and processing, test analyses, reporting and maintaining records of patient test result.
- Maintain records that demonstrate that proficiency testing samples are tested in the same manner as patient specimens.
- Analyze specimens using approved testing procedures (see department SOPs).
- Review and release test results.
- Follow CLIA, HIPAA, OSHA, and safety guidelines as described in their respective guidelines.
- Adhere to the laboratory's quality control policies, document all quality control activities, instrument and procedural calibrations and all maintenance performed.
- Follow the laboratory's established policies and procedures whenever test systems are not within the laboratory's established acceptable levels of performance.
- Identify problems that may adversely affect test performance or reporting of test results, correct the problems encountered or immediately notify the senior technologist or supervisor.
- Document all corrective actions taken when test systems deviate from the laboratory's established performance specifications.
Education:
- BS in Medical Technology preferred; or BS/BA in Chemistry or Biology, or associate’s degree in a Laboratory Science or Medical Technology, or Previously qualified as a Technologist under 42 CFR 493.
- 1433 published on March 14, 1990. Foreign educated candidates must provide a detailed credential evaluation from IERF (International Education Research Foundation).
- United States educated candidates must provide a detailed original transcript.
- A successful candidate should possess or be eligible for national certification as an MT / MLT from a recognized organization (ASCP or AMT).