Employer: Dignity Community Care

Position Location: Santa Maria, Ca

Position:Clinical Laboratory Scientist I

Job Duties: 

1. Performs approved laboratory procedures utilizing a diverse variety of laboratory techniques and instrumentation, instrument maintenance and test performance checks, and compliance with transfusion services policies and procedures.
2. Performs quality control, quality assurance, and performance improvement indicators routinely in the department before patient results are reported.
3. Recognize critical values, life threatening laboratory results, inconsistencies, errors and instrument malfunctions and take appropriate, timely corrective action.
4. Recognize specimen requirements and results interpretation criteria for neonates, pediatric, adolescent, adult and geriatric patients.
5. Ensures laboratory results are accurate, and turnaround standards are met, holdover and uncollected specimens are managed, and specimen labeling procedures are compliant.
6. Assists management with the maintenance of appropriate policies, procedures and equipment, and inventory of supplies as requested.
7. Participates in professional growth by maintaining knowledge of laboratory-specific policies and procedures and taking advantage of the available educational opportunities.
8. Performs other related duties as assigned or requested in a professional manner.

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Medical Technology, Clinical Laboratory Science, or closely related. Employer will accept foreign equivalent degree if in the same field.

Experience Requirements:

• 12 months in job offered, Medical Technologist, Medical Technologist II, or closely related.

Special skills requirements:

1. Working in different sections of the Laboratory such as Serology, Blood Bank, Phlebotomy/Information, Hematology, Clinical Chemistry, Clinical Microscopy (Parasitology/ Urinalysis), and Bacteriology.
2. Collecting blood, receiving urine, stool, and other specimens, and processing them with proper adherence to quality assurance programs of the laboratory.
3. Examine secretions and excretions of the human body by various electronics, chemical, microscopic, bacteriologic, hematological, serologic, and immunologic procedures and techniques either manual or automated.
4. Evaluate and perform corrective actions using Quality Control specimens on various clinical instruments.
5. Operating chemistry, hematology, and coagulation laboratory equipment.
6. Must have a Clinical Laboratory Scientist (Generalist) License from the California Department of Public Health
7. Must have Medical Laboratory Scientist certification or International Medical Laboratory Scientist certification from the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP)

Salary: $54.56/hr 

Work Schedule: 40 hours/week 

Qualified applicants send cover letter and resumes to Dignity Health, Adrienne Dodd, Human Resources Market Director, Adrienne.Dodd@commonspirit.org, ref job#MP01. EOE. Standard Benefits. #LI-DNI #FB-DNI #IN-DNI #TW-DNI #GD-DNI

Marian Regional Medical Center a 191-bed facility located in Santa Maria California is recognized as one of the Top 250 Hospitals in the Nation by Healthgrades and was awarded Best Maternity Care by Newsweek. It ranks among 10% in the nation for safety core measures in cardiac services and has the only comprehensive cancer treatment and resource program from Los Angeles to San Francisco. Marian’s beautiful mission-style facility houses the latest technology to support excellent physicians and caregivers who deliver compassionate care each and every day. Marian Regional Medical Center is a part of Dignity Health’s Southwest Division and is a member of CommonSpirit Health the largest not-for-profit health care system in the nation boasting an integrated network of top quality hospitals with physicians from the most prestigious medical schools and comprehensive outpatient services - all recognized for quality safety and service. Marians offers Santa Maria Valley residents access to the most advanced technologies an expanded and enhanced Emergency Department Critical Care Unit neonatal intensive care unit and an array of womens services.