Georgetown FSED Medical Laboratory Technician PRN

Baptist Health; Lexington, Georgetown (VA, KY); On-site; USD 34,000 - 44,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Preventive Plan

Retirement Plans

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Job summary

Baptist Health Georgetown Laboratory is seeking a Medical Laboratory Technician PRN I for the third shift to join the Clinical Lab and Pathology Department in Georgetown, KY. You will maintain technical competency, understand LIS functions, and perform downtime procedures to ensure accurate test results.

You will evaluate procedures, identify problems, and communicate with appropriate personnel to maintain specimen quality, resolve issues, and ensure timely, reliable results for patient care.

Qualifications

• Associate’s degree.
• Certified or eligible for certification in clinical laboratory science by recognized certifying agencies.
• Clinical Laboratory Science Certified within 1 year.

Responsibilities

• Maintain technical competency related to job functions.
• Understand LIS functions and perform downtime procedures.
• Evaluate procedures, identify issues, and notify appropriate personnel.
• Determine specimen acceptability and communicate requirements.
• Troubleshoot instrument problems and communicate delays.

Skills

LIS knowledge

Complex problem solving

Education

Associate degree

CLS certification eligibility

CLS certification within 1 year

Tools

LIS software

Job description

Summary Job Description: Medical Laboratory Technician PRN I Third Shift Laboratory I Georgetown, KY Baptist Health Clinical Lab and Pathology Department, where science meets compassion and precision meets care.

We are dedicated to ensuring that every test, every result, and every patient matters.

We demonstrate this by providing state-of-the-art technology; an expert team of pathologists and technicians; comprehensive services; fast and reliable results; a patient-centered approach; and commitment to continuous improvement.

Description: Maintains technical competency as related to the job functions. Understands pertinent LIS functions and performs downtime procedures effectively. Evaluates each procedure performed and chooses appropriate investigative techniques as indicated. Identifies and resolves problems that may adversely affect test results and notifies appropriate personnel. Determines acceptability of specimens by performing visual inspections or by recognizing abnormal/unusual results. Documents unacceptable specimens according to policy. Communicates specimen requirements to appropriate personnel. Assesses job functions and takes appropriate action when problems are detected. Identifies problems with specimens, test orders, registration and takes appropriate action. Handles troubleshooting professionally and communicates with coworkers and customers when delays occur. Expected to utilize complex problem-solving skills in resolving clinical and instrument problems.

Requirements: Associate’s degree. Certified or eligible for certification in clinical laboratory science by recognized certifying agencies. Clinical Laboratory Science Certified within 1 year.

Benefits: Preventive Plan Retirement Plans Flimp Decisions - Flimp Decisions will help you pick the best value plan option given your expected medical needs. The proprietary algorithm provides a personalized financial analysis and recommendation, considering both premium and expected out-of-pocket cost (copays, etc.), as well as other important plan features.

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.

Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana.

Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama.

Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.

Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.

Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians.

Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

EEO Statement: Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law.

Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team.

Please note that Baptist Health is a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre-employment drug testing.

NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMATION AND ACCESSIBILITY TO SERVICES Persons with hearing and speech impairments can contact Baptist Health facilities by using the Kentucky Relay Service, a toll-free telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD). For voice to TDD, call 800.648.6057. For TDD to voice, call 800.648.6056.

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