About this role
Job Summary
Utilizes laboratory skills to perform and report results of clearly defined laboratory procedures assuring optimal patient outcomes. Responsible for assigned shifts and subject to overtime and call back as required. Performs other duties as assigned.
Responsibilities
- Receives, identifies, organizes, and prioritizes specimen to ensure accurate and timely test processing.
- Performs and reports requested laboratory procedures.
- Performs quality control, proficiency testing, routine instrument maintenance and inventory control.
- Evaluates positive patient identification to reduce analytical and post-analytical error and/or adverse patient outcomes.
- Assesses, evaluates and draws appropriate conclusions.
- Supports life long learning.
- Completes assigned goals.
- Provide instruction for personnel and medical technology students, as required.
Specifications
Experience
Minimum Required
Preferred/Desired
- Clinical Laboratory Experience
Education
Minimum Required
- Bachelor's degree Medical Laboratory Science (MLS) or Medical Technology (MT) from an accredited institution Program.
Preferred/Desired
Training
Minimum Required
Preferred/Desired
Special Skills
Minimum Required
- Basic computer literacy
Preferred/Desired
Licensure
Minimum Required
- National certification in concordance with current Federal and/or State Regulations.
Preferred/Desired
- ASCP
Other facts
About Baptist
Baptist Memorial Health Care is one of the country’s largest not-for-profit health care systems and the largest provider of Medicaid in the region. Baptist offers a full continuum of care to communities throughout the Mid-South and consistently ranks among the top integrated health care networks in the country. The health care system comprises 24 affiliate hospitals in West Tennessee, Mississippi and East Arkansas; more than 5,400 affiliated physicians; Baptist Medical Group, a multispecialty physician group with more than 900 providers; home, hospice and psychiatric care; minor medical centers and clinics; a network of surgery, rehabilitation and other outpatient centers; and an education system highlighted by Baptist Health Sciences University (formerly Baptist College of Health Sciences). Baptist employs more than 21,000 people, and in fiscal year 2022 contributed more than $455 million in community benefit and uncompensated care to the communities it serves. For more information, please visit www.baptistonline.org or follow us on Facebook or Instagram.
What you'll do
- The Scientist-Medical Laboratory is responsible for performing and reporting laboratory procedures to ensure optimal patient outcomes. This includes specimen processing, quality control, and supporting lifelong learning.
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