Medical Technologist - Healthcare Staffing Professionals, Inc

Healthcare Staffing Professionals has an immediate need for a Medical Technologist. The Medical Technologist will be responsible for managing an information system serving a full-scale public health laboratory, including planning, organizing, directing, and controlling the work of the Laboratory Information System.
Pay Rate:
$32/hr working 40 hours a week
Healthcare
Healthcare, Dental and Vision, and Life Insurance
Job duties:

• Medical Technologist, should be competent, qualified and adequately trained to perform assigned duties.
• Medical Technologist shall provide clinical laboratory generalist duties in all areas of the laboratory including phlebotomy,urinalysis,coagulation,hematology,immunohematology,blood gases, microbiology and chemistry.
• Medical Technologist shall perform a wide variety of manual and automated procedures, including moderate and complex analysis. Incumbent at this level develops, performs, evaluates, interprets, correlates, and validates the accuracy of laboratory procedures and results. Testing procedures are performed on a variety of biological specimens using manual or automated techniques and require a broad exercise of independent judgment and responsibility with minimal technical supervision. The work performed will be in Chemistry (including endocrinology and toxicology), coagulation, hematology, immunology, immunohematology, blood gases, urinalysis, microbiology, and phlebotomy. Such position includes requirements to monitor quality control systems and measures; collaborate in the diagnosis and treatment of patients; and provide education for laboratory and other healthcare professionals, and others in the medical center setting including the public
• Medical Technologist (s) shall follow all established patient safety and infection control standards of care.
• Medical Technologist (s) shall make every effort to prevent patient injury caused by acts of commission or omission in the delivery of care.

Qualifications:

• Certification: All Medical Technologist staff shall be Certified by the American Society of Clinical pathology (ASCP), Board of certification or Board of Registry https://www.ascp.org/ or American Medical Technologist https:americanmedtech.org or American Association of Bioanalytic https://www.aab.org/ and be certified in Basic Life Support (BLS)
• Education and experience: All Medical Technologist must have a Bachelor of Science degree in medical laboratory science or a related science and at least one year of clinical laboratory experience..

Technical Proficiency:

• Medical Technologists, medical laboratory technician and Health Technicians/phlebotomists shall be technically proficient in the skills necessary to fulfill the government's requirements, including the ability to speak, understand, read and write English fluently. Contractor shall provide documents upon request to verify current and ongoing competency, skills, certification and/or licensure related to the provision of laboratory services.
• Contractor shall provide verifiable evidence of all educational and training experiences including any gaps in educational history for all Contractor's laboratory staff shall be responsible for abiding by the rules, and regulations that govern medical staff behavior

Key Personnel:

• The minimum number of Board-Certified laboratory staff required to be on site daily is 8 to be on site at the same time as defined in paragraph Hours of Operation in this section.
• The Contractor shall be responsible for providing coverage to the clinic during periods of vacancies of the Contractor's personnel due to sick leave, personal leave, vacations and additional coverage as required.