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Catholic Health · 1 day ago

Senior Clinical Laboratory Technologist-PD

Port Jefferson, NY

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$69.01/hr - $69.01/hr

Catholic Health is committed to providing compassionate care and improving outcomes in the Long Island community. The Senior Medical Technologist performs a variety of clinical laboratory examinations and procedures, exercising independent judgment to provide data for diagnosis and treatment of diseases.

Health Care

Responsibilities

Possesses competency in all three major sections of the laboratory Blood Bank, Hematology, and Chemistry

Follows the laboratory’s established policies and procedures for proper specimen collection, including patient preparation (if applicable), labeling, handling, preservation or fixation, processing or preparation, transportation and storage of specimens

Follows the laboratory's procedures for specimen handling and processing, test analyses, reporting and maintaining records of patient test examinations

Adheres to the laboratory's quality control policies, documents all quality control activities, instrument and procedural calibrations and maintenance performed

Follows the laboratory's established corrective action policies and procedures whenever test systems are not within the laboratory's established acceptable levels of performance

Identifies problems that may adversely affect test performance (i.e., specimen integrity issues) or reporting of test results and either must correct the problems or immediately notify the supervisor/manager/lead tech/designee

Documents all corrective actions taken when test systems deviate from the laboratory established performance specifications

Performs proficiency testing in accordance with established policies and procedures, treating proficiency testing samples in the same manner as patient specimens

Performs and records appropriate quality control procedures and results, performs and documents corrective action, if necessary, and notifies supervisor/manager/lead tech/designee of out-of-control/discrepant results immediately

Reports all critical values in a timely manner and documents in the laboratory information system according to policy

Ensures correct patient / specimen identification throughout the entire testing procedure

Demonstrates a broad knowledge of the department where assigned (i.e., procedures, quality control, etc) and the department's relationship with the other areas of the laboratory

Consults with appropriate personnel when test findings are abnormal or questionable

Assists the supervisor/manager/lead tech/designee in complying with all Joint Commission, New York State Department of Health and Federal regulations

Qualification

Clinical Laboratory TechnologistHematologyChemistryBlood BankMicrobiologyHospital experienceBachelor's degreeNYS Clinical Laboratory LicenseCommunication skills