Medical Laboratory Scientist

Location:

Avera McKennan Hospital

Worker Type:

Regular

Work Shift:

Day Shift (United States of America)

Pay Range:

The pay range for this position is listed below. Actual pay rate dependent upon experience.

$29.25 - $44.00

Position Highlights

Prior work experience utilizing EPIC is required.

What You Will Do Initially:

• Supports the laboratory during Avera’s enterprise EMR transition through validation, workflow testing, and go-live readiness activities while maintaining safe, compliant laboratory operations.
• Participates in system testing and validation efforts to ensure laboratory orders, results, reference ranges, and workflows function accurately and reliably.
• Collaborates with laboratory leadership, informatics partners, and technical teams to identify issues, support corrective action, and promote consistent laboratory processes.
• Develops, reviews, and updates laboratory standard operating procedures (SOPs), job aids, and supporting documentation to align with updated workflows and compliance requirements.
• Supports education and training efforts for laboratory staff, including readiness activities related to new workflows, process changes, and go-live preparation.
• Assists with go-live and post go-live stabilization support including workflow optimization, defect tracking, quality monitoring, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Applies quality assurance and compliance principles to ensure laboratory processes meet organizational standards, regulatory expectations, and patient safety requirements.

This position will support EPIC for approximately the first 18 months. After completion, this position will transition to into a Generalist MLS position within Avera McKennan's Laboratory. The schedule may change with the Generalist MLS transition.

This position may be eligible for a $15,000 sign on bonus with a 3 year employment commitment.

This position is eligible for Avera's Student Loan Repayment Program which will help you pay off your loans and save money. Each month an extra payment of $167 (up to $10,000) from Avera will help pay down your principle balance faster.

Updated Required Education, License/Certification, or Work Experience

Bachelor's Transcript showing Medical or Clinical Laboratory Science Degree, or a Clinical, Physical, or Biological Science Degree.

MLS - American Medical Technologists (AMT) within 1 Year or Medical Laboratory Scientist or (MLS) - American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) within 1 Year

Pay Range:

The pay range for this position is listed below. Actual pay rate is dependent upon experience.

$29.25 - $44.00 per hour

You Belong at Avera

Be part of a multidisciplinary team built with compassion and the goal of Moving Health Forward for you and our patients. Work where you matter.

A Brief Overview Performs a variety of clinical laboratory tests, procedures and related duties. Utilizes scientific principles as well as technical, procedural, and problem-solving aptitudes for day-to-day laboratory technical operations, quality control, quality assurance, procedure/instrument maintenance and corrective action, test result correlation, and clinical laboratory related continuing education.

What you will do

• Responsible for the day-to-day operations of laboratory instrumentation or disciplines including but not limited to: supply inventory, quality control, calibration, reagent preparation, etc. Initiates and follows through with corrective action.
• Accurately performs basic to complex clinical laboratory tests utilizing theoretical knowledge and independent judgment in addition to established protocol, techniques and equipment manuals.
• Assumes responsibility for distinguishing between normal and abnormal clinical laboratory parameters and takes actions to assure all abnormals are rechecked. Alerts appropriate staff for abnormal results and documents these actions.
• Communicates laboratory data and pertinent technical information to appropriate departments and individuals in an accurate and timely fashion.
• Critiques, correlates and differentiates results of tests utilizing theoretical knowledge and independent judgment in addition to established protocol, techniques and equipment manuals.
• Participates with development of protocols, lab manuals, new instrumentation, lab CQI or other laboratory developmental activities.
• Provides technical guidance to and be primary resource for various team members. Responsible for training new employees or co-workers on new equipment/procedures as applicable.
• Provides instructions on proper pre-analytical specimen collection, specimen handling, and storage guidelines for various body fluids and/or may collect specimens as necessary.

Essential Qualifications The individual must be able to work the hours specified. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily including having visual acuity adequate to perform position duties and the ability to communicate effectively with others, hear, understand and distinguish…