Medical Technician

Talentify; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

The Jesse Brown Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Chicago, IL is seeking Medical Laboratory Technicians to support daily laboratory operations. The role involves routine testing, quality control, and instrument maintenance under close supervision.

Responsibilities include testing across multiple areas and ensuring accurate interpretation and timely reporting of results to physicians. The MLT will work with various specimens and comply with biosafety and lab regulations.

Qualifications

• Performs routine testing and quality control in a clinical lab.
• Maintains instrumentation and troubleshoots as needed.
• Under supervision, validates accuracy of procedures and results.

Responsibilities

• Carries out day-to-day laboratory operations including testing, quality control, and routine instrument maintenance.
• Performs, evaluates, interprets, correlates, and validates laboratory procedures and results.
• Recognizes critical data and promptly informs physician or nursing staff as required.

Skills

Laboratory testing

Quality control

Biosafety

Job description

The two Medical Laboratory Technician positions are located at the Jesse Brown Department of Veterans Affairs, located at 820 S Damen Ave. Chicago, IL 60612.

Duties

A Medical Laboratory Technician (MLT) at this level carries out the day-to-day operations in the laboratory. This includes routine testing, quality control, routine maintenance of instrumentation and troubleshooting. The MLT performs, evaluates, interprets, correlates, and validates the accuracy of laboratory procedures and results. The MLT recognizes data with life-threatening (critical) implications and understand the importance of immediately bringing the data to the attention of the patient's physician and/or nursing staff. The MLT is responsible for testing procedures that are performed on a variety of biological specimens and/or environmental samples using manual or automated techniques, following practices and regulations governing biosafety and biosecurity in the workplace. These duties require exercise of independent judgment and responsibility with close technical supervision.

MLTs at this level perform testing in one or more of the following areas:

• Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) waived testing
• phlebotomy
• hematology
• immunohematology
• clinical chemistry
• immunology
• toxicology
• urinalysis
• referral laboratory
• microbiology
• specimen processing

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