Facility Name: Frye Regional Medical Center

Position: Clinical Lab Scientist 

schedule: 8 hour shift rotating weekends and holidays

Shift: Full Time Nights  

 

Your experience matters:

 Frye Regional Medical Center is part of Lifepoint Health, a diversified healthcare delivery network with facilities coast to coast. We are driven by a profound commitment to prioritize your well-being so you can provide exceptional care to others. As a Clinical Lab Scientist joining our team, you’re embracing a vital mission dedicated to making communities healthier. Join us on this meaningful journey where your skills, compassion and dedication will make a remarkable difference in the lives of those we serve.

 

More about our team: 

Frye Regional Medical Center employs more than 1500 professional and clinical staff. Our medical center is a 355-bed acute care facility which offers a broad array of inpatient and outpatient care. Frye Regional Medical Center provides patients with a full range of services to meet the healthcare needs of our community. We believe our employees are our most valuable assets in accomplishing this goal and we have made great strides to ensure employee satisfaction. If you are passionate about changing lives, we are looking for you!

 

What we are Looking for:

We are looking for a dynamic Clinical Lab Scientist who is passionate about helping others and is a team player!

 

 

Why join us:

We are looking for a dynamic Clinical Lab Scientist who is passionate about helping others and is a team player

 

· Financial & Career Growth: Higher education and certification tuition assistance, loan assistance and 401(k) retirement package and company match.

· Employee Well-being: Mental, physical, and financial wellness programs (free gym memberships, virtual care appointments, mental health services and discount programs).

· Professional Development: Ongoing learning and career advancement opportunities.

 

· Employee Well-being: Mental, physical, and financial wellness programs (free gym memberships, virtual care appointments, mental health services and discount programs).

· Professional Development: Ongoing learning and career advancement opportunities

 

 

Essential Functions:

• Follows standardized procedures and helps prepare samples for testing.

• Operates laboratory equipment in a high-quality, effective manner.

• Analyzes test results for accuracy, acceptability, and critical limits, and reports/documents results per organizational standards.

• Performs automated tests using computerized instruments & automated equipment.

• Runs tests and analyzes the results to be reported to the patient, physician or registered nurse.

• Performs Quality Assurance work to ensure accuracy of equipment.

• Willing and able to demonstrate appropriate core competencies annually or as requested.

• Performs and determines accuracy of technical lab procedures.

• Maintains records of procedures performed, the patient results and the quality control required for all procedures performed.

• Maintains accurate and complete records of all quality control tests completed.

• Assures that all out-of-control procedures are followed and that there is documentation of remedial actions taken.

• Performs all preventive maintenance of laboratory instrumentation, as assigned.

• Reads and understands all procedure manuals on an annual basis.

• Collects biological specimens.

• Prepares and forwards biological specimens to appropriate reference laboratory according to departmental procedures.

• Provides instruction to students/new employees with regard to procedures and departmental policies.

• Checks available supplies and reports deficiencies to supervisor in a timely manner so as to avoid shortages.

• Review procedure manual and sign off on procedures.

• Write and update procedures.

• Review quality control results and document as such.

• Contributes to a positive work climate and to the overall team approach to the laboratory.

• Maintains confidentiality in accordance with HIPAA regulations.

• Support the culture of service excellence throughout the organization.

• Actively seek ways to demonstrate a commitment to the continuous improvement and participate other related duties as assigned or requested.

• Performs other related duties as assigned or requested.

 

Required Skills:

• Requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgment and the ability to work with minimal supervision. 

• Must be able to work in a stressful environment and take appropriate action.

 

Education/ Licenses

• Bachelor’s degree in medical technology or clinical Lab Services Preferred

• Licenses: ASCP certification or eligibility required.

• American Society for Clinical Pathology.

 

Lifepoint Health is a leader in community-based care and driven by a mission of Making Communities Healthier. Our diversified healthcare delivery network spans 29 states and includes 63 community hospital campuses, 32 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and more than 170 additional sites of care across the healthcare continuum, such as acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers and post-acute care facilities. We believe that success is achieved through talented people. We want to create places where employees want to work, with opportunities to pursue meaningful and satisfying careers that truly make a difference in communities across the country.
We employ and provide care to people from all walks of life. We are committed to promoting healing, providing hope, preserving dignity and producing value with an inclusive workforce in which diversity is leveraged, respected, and reflective of the patients, family members, customers and team members we serve.