Medical Technologist

HCA Healthcare, Inc.; Pearland (TX); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Wellbeing support including counseling

Paid time off and disability coverage

Education and certification support

Retirement and savings resources

Job summary

HCA Houston Healthcare Pearland in Pearland, TX is hiring a Medical Technologist to perform routine and specialized laboratory tests across departments. Under supervision, you will ensure accurate results, maintain competencies, and uphold patient safety and quality standards.

You will collaborate with physicians and nursing staff to provide timely information, participate in quality control, and support continuous improvement while advancing your professional growth in a busy, community

Qualifications

• Under the general supervision of the Laboratory Manager, the Medical Technologist performs routine, complex or specialized laboratory procedures.
• Demonstrates accuracy and maintains required competencies in all departments assigned.
• Communicates effectively with care providers to ensure continuity of patient care.

Responsibilities

• Performs routine, complex or specialized laboratory testing on body fluids.
• Maintains required competencies and demonstrates accuracy in testing.
• Observes patient safety, infection control and quality policies.
• Performs quality control and proficiency testing per policy.
• Pursues professional growth and identifies improvement opportunities.

Education

Associate Degree, or Bachelors Degree

Job description

Are you passionate about the patient experience? At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to caring for patients with purpose and integrity. We care like family! Jump-start your career as a(an) Medical Technologist today with HCA Houston Healthcare Pearland.

Job Summary and Qualifications

Under the general supervision of the Laboratory Manager, the Medical Technologist performs routine, complex or specialized bacteriological, hematological, chemical, immunological, serological and immunoassay procedures on body fluids.

What you will do in this role:

• Requires no supervision for processing specimens, performing testing, or reporting
• results. No review of patient results is required prior to reporting.
• Maintains required competencies in all departments assigned.
• Demonstrates accuracy for all testing performed.
• Observes patient safety, risk management and infection control policies and procedures
• Performs related quality control and required proficiency testing according to policy and procedure.
• Fulfills the duty and responsibility to maintain competence and to continue personal and
• professional growth.
• Identifies and assists with opportunities for performance improvement activities on the unitand with other service areas.
• Demonstrates fiscal responsibility by taking ownership of time management, decreasing waste
• (of time and supplies) and promoting cost effectiveness while maintaining patient safety and
• quality of care. To actively market services to increase volume and awareness.
• Demonstrates the ability to be an advocate for and strive to protect health, safety and rights of the patient.
• Interactions with patients and colleagues demonstrate compassion and respect for the inherent
• dignity, worth, and uniqueness of every individual, unrestricted by considerations of social or
• economic status or cultural beliefs.
• Communicate effectively with other care providers (physicians, nurses, business office, and
• medical records) to provide for continuity of patient care and to meet the needs of the customers we serve.
• Demonstrates ability to fulfill requirements of attendance, punctuality, and timekeeping practices.
• Behaviors and interactions demonstrate a positive attitude, personal initiative and motivation to
• achieve the goals of the unit, facility and organization.
• To uphold the standards of the profession and organization and practice ethically and with integrity.
• Other duties as assigned

What qualifications you will need:

• Associate Degree, or Bachelors Degree

No Travel Required

No experience Required Years of Experience

Benefits

HCA Houston Healthcare Pearland, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources , including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn more about Employee Benefits (https://careers.hcahealthcare.com/pages/employee-benefits-and-rewards)

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

As the first hospital in Pearland, Texas, HCA Houston Healthcare Pearland (https://careers.hcahealthcare.com/pages/hca-houston-healthcare-pearland) is proud to provide healthcare resources to the south Houston communities. Our 50+ bed hospital isn't just a neighborhood hospital, but we are an exceptional full-service hospital that happens to be in your neighborhood. Our hospital provides expert emergency care, breast cancer screening, and cardiology services. Our emergency department provides fast and effective care, our women's diagnostic imaging center provides full-service mammogram procedures, including diagnostic and 3D mammograms, for effective breast cancer screening, and our cardiology team is home to some of the top Houston cardiologists . HCA Houston Healthcare Pearland aspires to connect with each one of our patients to build a network of caring individuals. We are members of HCA Houston Healthcare, the most comprehensive family of hospitals in the region and part of the leading provider of healthcare in the country, HCA Healthcare. Together we are stronger, smarter and more accessible in providing the patient-centered care you need close to home.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"The great hospitals will always put the patient and the patient's family first, and the really great institutions will provide care with warmth, compassion, and dignity for the individual."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.

HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.