Job Description
Overview You may be eligible for a sign-on bonus of up to $10,000. Join our team as a day shift, full-time, Microbiology Medical Laboratory Scientist (MLS) or Medical Laboratory Technician (MLT) in Amarillo, TX.
Why Join Us? Thrive in a People-First Environment and Make Healthcare Better - Thrive: We empower our team with career growth opportunities, tuition assistance, and resources that support your wellness, education, and financial well-being.
- People-First: We prioritize your well-being with paid time off, comprehensive health benefits, and a supportive, inclusive culture where you are valued and cared for.
- Make Healthcare Better: We use advanced technology to support our team and enhance patient care.
Get to Know Your Team: - BSA Hospital is a 445-bed hospital serving the Amarillo area for over 120 years and continues to be Amarillo s preferred healthcare provider. At BSA, the focus is to provide quality healthcare in Christian love, service, and dignity.
Responsibilities- Performs patient culture testing in Microbiology.
- Functions as a professional who assumes responsibility and accountability for the performance of clinical laboratory testing that pertains to patient care and diagnosis.
- Performs routine and special laboratory procedures, quality control, preventative maintenance, minor equipment repairs, inventory control, and statistical compilation.
- Participates in quality assurance, performance improvement, laboratory education, new employee training and proficiency testing when assigned.
- Displays technical expertise necessary to ensure timely and accurate results of laboratory procedures.
- Ensure specimens are obtained and processed in accordance with laboratory guidelines.
- Demonstrate proper communication skills to relate pertinent data or information about the patient or laboratory sample to appropriate care provider.
- Supports organizational priorities to maintain compliance with regulatory and accreditation standards.
- Exhibits problem-solving skills to troubleshoot and evaluate critical laboratory results.
- Participates in the training/mentoring of new employees, students or interns including lectures and bench techniques.
- Able to prioritize and organize workload and assist other coworkers to maintain productivity.
- Demonstrates proper infection control practices, proper patient identification, performs proper prompt specimen transport.
Qualifications Job Requirements:
- Baccalaureate Degree or Associates Degree in Medical Technology, Clinical Laboratory Science, Medical Laboratory Technician, or a chemical, physical or biological science degree.
Preferred Job Requirements:
- ASCP or equivalent. Certification within a specific area, i.e. M(ASCP), H(ASCP), C(ASCP) qualifies.
- Previous clinical laboratory experience as a Medical Laboratory Technician, Medical Technology, Clinical Laboratory Scientist or Medical Laboratory Scientist within a clinical laboratory
- Prior Microbiology experience highly preferred.
