HLA Technologist

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Benefits

At Emory Healthcare we fuel your professional journey with better benefits, valuable resources, ongoing mentorship and leadership programs for all types of jobs, and a supportive environment that enables you to reach new heights in your career and be what you want to be. We provide:

• Sign-On and Relocation bonuses when applicable
• Comprehensive health benefits that start day 1
• Student Loan Repayment Assistance & Reimbursement Programs
• Family-focused benefits
• Wellness incentives
• Ongoing mentorship, development , and leadership programs
• And more

Overview

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Benefits

At Emory Healthcare we fuel your professional journey with better benefits, valuable resources, ongoing mentorship and leadership programs for all types of jobs, and a supportive environment that enables you to reach new heights in your career and be what you want to be. We provide:

• Sign-On and Relocation bonuses when applicable
• Comprehensive health benefits that start day 1
• Student Loan Repayment Assistance & Reimbursement Programs
• Family-focused benefits
• Wellness incentives
• Ongoing mentorship, development , and leadership programs
• And more

Description

Shift: 2:45pm - 11:15pm, Sunday - Thursday

Emory Medical Laboratory's mission is to transform health and healing by providing high quality, cost-effective, innovative laboratory services which enhance patient health. We're seeking an HLA Technologist II who will have the opportunity to work in one of the best ASHI-Accredited HLA Labs in the country with world-renown Medical Directors as part of a leading teaching hospital. This role will provide exposure to complex situations and will require analytical and problem-solving skills.



Job Description

• Functions as a technical resource, performing complex assays and providing training and mentoring to other HLA staff.
• Performs standardized and high-complexity histocompatibility testing on various types of clinical samples.
• May perform tests in one scientific discipline or perform selected tests in multiple disciplines (cross train DNA/serology).
• Tests may include: HLA antibody screen and identification, cross matching, typing, and engraftment monitoring.
• Contribute to sample processing, test preparation, testing results, and generate reports.
• Serve as a technical resource for lower level technologist.
• Evaluates the validity of test results according to transplant program needs and confirms results by alternative methods.
• Uses knowledge of various complex laboratory techniques and procedures to generate quantitative and qualitative observations and initiate problem solving processes if indicated.
• Must be able to take on-call assignments for nights, holidays, and weekends on a rotating basis.
• Other duties may also be assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in medical technology or a chemical, physical or biological science.
• Other bachelor's degree will be accepted if graduated from an accredited school of medical technology or if science and math coursework meet requirement of certifying agency.
• Bachelor's degree may be waived for a medical technologist who was ASCP certified in the years prior to the bachelor's degree requirement by ASCP and a HEW/HHS technologist certified by Health and Human Services.
• Two years of medical technology or HLA experience. (Medical Laboratory Technician experience is pro-rated).
• Certification by one of the following accreditation agencies: MT (ASCP), MLS(ASCP) or categorical, MT(AMT), MT(HHS or HEW), MT(AAB), CHT(ACHI), CHS(ACHI).

JOIN OUR TEAM TODAY! Emory Healthcare (EHC), part of Emory University (EUV), is the most comprehensive academic health system in Georgia and the first and only in Georgia with a Magnet designated ambulatory practice. We are made up of 11 hospitals-4 Magnet designated, the Emory Clinic, and more than 425 provider locations. The Emory Healthcare Network, established in 2011, is the largest clinically integrated network in Georgia, with more than 3,450 physicians concentrating in 70 different subspecialties.

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