Medical Laboratory Technologist/MLT Generalist — Evening Shift

1017 Lehigh Valley Hospital - Hazleton; Hazleton (Luzerne County); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Lehigh Valley Health Network seeks a Medical Laboratory Scientist to perform high, moderate, or waived laboratory testing in the assigned department, following established procedures and exercising independent judgment to deliver accurate results for patient care.

You will operate advanced instrumentation, monitor quality control, report results promptly, train new staff or students, and participate in maintenance and safety procedures; evening shift at Lehigh Valley Hospital- Hazleton.

Qualifications

• Must meet CLIA 88 personnel requirements for high complexity testing.
• Bachelor’s Degree Medical Technology or related science field from an accredited institution.
• Less than 1 year of experience and a clinical laboratory internship.
• Demonstrated technical skills.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific documents.
• Ability to read, understand, and speak basic English.
• Demonstrated ability to use/learn the computer system, word processing, e‑mail, and applicable software programs.
• Demonstrated dependability/flexibility in meeting scheduling needs of the department, unit, and hospital.
• Ability to apply common mathematical skills.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret a variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Responsibilities

• Performs any high complexity, moderate complexity or waived laboratory testing in the assigned testing department.
• Utilizes advanced clinical laboratory instrumentation and methodologies according to departmental standard operating procedures.
• Confirms, verifies, and reports the results of this testing independently exercising broad independent judgment.
• Monitors results for reasonableness and critical values.
• Conducts and evaluates established quality control per departmental standard operating procedures.
• Troubleshoots and reports to management any unacceptable quality control before reporting patent results.
• Performs required departmental preventative maintenance per standard operating procedures.
• Recognizes and corrects instrument or procedural malfunctions within the scope of the standard operating procedures and records troubleshooting activities.
• Provides clinical orientation and/or training of new employees/students.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree Medical Technology or related science field

Job description

Lehigh Valley Health Network seeks a Medical Laboratory Scientist to perform high, moderate, or waived laboratory testing in the assigned department, following established procedures and exercising independent judgment to deliver accurate results for patient care.

You will operate advanced instrumentation, monitor quality control, report results promptly, train new staff or students, and participate in maintenance and safety procedures; evening shift at Lehigh Valley Hospital- Hazleton.