Medical Lab Tech

Medical Lab Tech

Wellstar Health System

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How would you like to work in a place where your contributions and ideas are valued? A place where you can serve with compassion, pursue excellence and honor every voice? At Wellstar, our mission is simple, yet powerful: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. We are proud to have become a shining example of what is possible when the brightest professionals dedicate themselves to making a difference in the healthcare industry and in people's lives.

Night (United States of America)

Under the general supervision of the Supervisors, Manager or Director, performs clinical laboratory testing pursuant to established and approved protocols, maintains equipment and records, performs quality assurance activities related to test performance, and may supervise and teach within the laboratory setting. The Med Tech II is fully proficient in their area of expertise and will serve as a Generalist in all areas of the General Lab and Blood Bank, or as a Key Operator / Subject Matter Expert in their assigned area.

• Accuracy:
  Maintains acceptable accuracy in patient, quality assurance, proficiency, and competency testing.
• Critical Thinking:
  Uses clinical/theoretical knowledge to analyze, investigate, interpret, and report lab data.
• Job Knowledge:
  Maintains current personal training, education and practice of policies and procedures.
• Productivity:
  Practices organizational skills for efficiency of time, materials, cost, and availability of lab data.
• Communication:
  Practices information monitoring, investigation, resolution, and hand-off to team members.

• Works independently analyzing blood and body fluids for ordered diagnostic tests in the General laboratory, Blood Bank, or Microbiology sections; results all tests using good lab technique and adheres to established procedures.
• Performs all routine testing in hematology, manual hematology, urinalysis, coagulation, processing, chemistry, manual chemistry, blood bank and microbiology as requested.
• Performs lab supplementary tasks for quality control, chemical safety, logs all required activities to track workload, work in progress, pending logs, and amended information.
• Effectively communicates all information to appropriate personnel as required by policy and procedure and participates in shift‑to‑shift hand‑off communication.
• Acts as a resource to the Pathologists, resolving any issues they require.
• Fields problem phone calls and resolves issues, checking the critical logs.
• Serves as a technical resource to other techs, training techs in new procedures.
• Acts as consultants and advisors to the other Supervisors.
• Performs duties assigned as needed.

• Performs scheduled maintenance on a key instrument.
• Maintains up‑to‑date procedure manuals and logs all new shipment lot numbers.
• Maintains QC reports, checks L‑J charts and monitors shifts.
• Orders needed supplies and keeps inventory stocked for two weeks.
• Provides training for new employees in the designated section/instrument.
• Creates documents and completes Performance Improvement Projects.
• Performs linearity and correlation studies biannually for key instrument.
• Evaluates new tests and procedure changes.
• Performs C.A.P. surveys when assigned and helps assign surveys to others.
• Maintains CAP and The Joint Commission readiness.

• Participates in a regular bench rotation in the blood bank on evening or night shift as needed.
• Runs automated blood bank instrument according to established procedures.
• Performs stat duties as needed.
• Orders and supplies blood products where needed.
• Completes work assignments for the shift.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Complies with all Wellstar Health System policies, standards of work, and code of conduct.

• Bachelors Medical Technology or Bachelors Health Science or Bachelors General or Masters Business Administration/Management

All certifications are required upon…