Job Category: Medical
Job Type: Full Time
Job Location: Kennewick WA
Position Description
Medical Laboratory Technician/Scientist
Duties
- Read/understand all procedures pertaining to assigned duties
- Collect, pick up and courier patient specimens
- Register patients, accession specimens and process specimens
- Perform laboratory testing on patient specimens
- Review and release patient specimen test results
- Perform regular maintenance on equipment as required
- Interact with patients and clients where needed to answer technical (not clinical) questions about laboratory testing and results
- Help ensure the laboratory is in compliance with all Washington State CLIA regulations
- Participate in proficiency testing (PT) events
- Ensure training and competency is documented and up-to-date
- Participate in the Quality Assurance (QA) program
- Ensure quality control (QC) is performed and acceptable for each test run including patient test results
- Ensure the safety and biosafety of the laboratory during your shift
- Ensure temperatures are checked and other housekeeping duties are performed and documented as required
- Participate in the inventory management program
- Ensure that all supplies and reagents are utilized within expiration dates
- Notify the supervisor when supplies or reagents are getting low
- Notify the supervisor if any other issues with supplies or reagents are encountered
Qualifications
- Required
- Certified as a Medical Laboratory Technician (MLT) or Clinical/Medical Laboratory Scientist or Medical Technologist (CLS, MLS or MT)
- At least one year experience working in a clinical testing laboratory
- Preferred
- At least two years experience working in a clinical testing laboratory, performing molecular diagnostics
- Experience with next-generation sequencing (NGS) methodologies