Medical Lab Tech | 7-on 7-off Night Shift + $5k Sign-On

Advocate Health; Wisconsin; On-site; USD 47,000 - 71,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on bonus

Job summary

Advocate Health is seeking a Medical Laboratory Technician to join our ACL Laboratories team at AMC Manitowoc County in Wisconsin. The role involves performing and evaluating lab tests, ensuring quality control, and communicating results under protocols to support patient care.

Requirements include an Associate’s Degree in Clinical Lab Technician or related field and ASCP/AMT licensure within 1 year. The position is full-time, with a 7-on, 7-off third-shift schedule and a $5,000 sign-on bonus.

Qualifications

• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to handle stressful situations in a calm and professional manner.
• Maintains patient confidentiality in and out of the workplace.
• Demonstrates a willingness to work a flexible schedule, which may include alternate site assignment.

Responsibilities

• Performs, evaluates, and monitors laboratory tests as authorized within established protocols, selecting and performing additional procedures when indicated. Monitors workflow and makes necessary adjustments to complete work in an appropriate timeframe.
• Evaluates results for clinical significance, validity and appropriateness. Follows prescribed policy in the reporting and notification of test results.
• Performs and documents calibration and maintenance of instruments and equipment. Performs and documents quality control; evaluates quality control results and takes corrective action when indicated.
• Recognizes indicators of test and/or instrument malfunction and makes basic corrections by using prescribed strategies, or notifies the Medical Technologist, site coordinator or supervisor. Performs internal and external proficiency testing in the same manner as patient samples.
• Collects specimens from newborn, pediatric, and adult patients according to established protocol. Ascertains specimens are properly labeled and suitable for testing.
• Provides technical assistance to Phlebotomists and support staff.
• Assists in improving the quality and efficiency of laboratory procedures, policies, and processes. Ensures compliance with all accrediting agency standards, supporting CAP Regulatory requirements in an acute setting,
• Performs all internal and external proficiency testing in the same manner as patient samples.
• Performs specialty testing in areas including transfusion services, microbiology, chemistry, hematology, histology, coagulation, and flow cytometry. Supports the disease specific accreditations of an institution by meeting turn- around time goals.
• Provides direct support and timely, accurate laboratory results for critical care departments such as the ED, ICU and OR during a high acuity patient event. This includes transfusion services, attending codes, performing testing on irretrievable samples, tissue grinding and gram stains, mass casualty procedures, and mass transfusion procedures.

Skills

Communication

Stress management

Confidentiality

Flexible schedule

Education

Associate’s Degree in Clinical Lab Technician or related field

Job description

Advocate Health is seeking a Medical Laboratory Technician to join our ACL Laboratories team at AMC Manitowoc County in Wisconsin. The role involves performing and evaluating lab tests, ensuring quality control, and communicating results under protocols to support patient care.

Requirements include an Associate’s Degree in Clinical Lab Technician or related field and ASCP/AMT licensure within 1 year. The position is full-time, with a 7-on, 7-off third-shift schedule and a $5,000 sign-on bonus.