Medical Lab Technician

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Phelps Health is a 2000-employee-strong hospital and healthcare system serving the heart of small-town Missouri. We’re committed to taking our team to the top. If you’re ready to provide life‑saving care or support those who do, this might be your fit.

The Medical Laboratory Technician understands the principles and competently performs clinical testing in any or all areas of hematology, immunology, microbiology, clinical microscopy, chemistry, coagulation, and blood banking while adhering to all accrediting agency regulations. They interpret results for accuracy, acceptability, and critical limits, perform esoteric testing as needed, and work under the supervision of a technical supervisor.

• Performs work accurately, verifies it timely, and posts it to the proper work area when requested or required. Routine testing is performed without assistance to include reagent reconstitution and storage, with moderate ability to solve testing and/or analyzer problems. Quality control is reviewed and performed according to department policy with documentation of all quality control failures and corrective action as needed.
• Prioritizes workload to ensure priority of testing requests is met.
• Manages a fair workload, volunteers for additional work, prioritizes tasks, develops good work procedures, manages time well, and handles information flow. Actively participates in ensuring a good balance between workload and department productivity goals is maintained.
• Reviews pending list regularly and at the end of shift to ensure completion of applicable work and communicates remaining pending work and/or relevant information to the next shift.
• Ensures all critical results are called to provider and documented with time and name of person receiving call in accordance with accrediting agencies.
• Assists with training new employees and ensuring competency, and assists management with updating and correcting procedure manuals and policies as needed.
• Performs all pre‑analytical, analytical and post‑analytical assessments on an ongoing basis and troubleshoots potential specimen issues as needed for both in-house and reference testing.

• Associate’s degree in Medical Technology or a related science required.

• None required for a registered Medical Laboratory Technician.

• Certification as a medical laboratory technician or clinical laboratory technician by accrediting agency such as ASCP, ISCLT, HHS, AMT, or NCA required or board eligible upon hire.

• Close mental and visual attention required for sustained periods of time. Frequently works under stressful conditions due to time constraints and critical condition of some patients. 90% of time spent transporting self throughout department and hospital or working at a lab station. Must be able to lift and/or carry up to 20 lbs.

• Constant exposure to hazardous chemical and infectious material. Works in air‑conditioned environment with moderate noise level. May be required to work any time of day.

• Entry level

• Full-time

• Research, Analyst, and Information Technology

• Hospitals and Health Care