MLT PRN Variable Schedule

100 LCMC Health; Ardmore (NC); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Deliver healthcare with heart

Compassionate team culture

Equal opportunity employer

Job summary

LCMC Health is seeking a Medical Laboratory Technician to join our diagnostic laboratory team. You will ensure proper preparation, collection, preservation, transportation, and testing of samples, and report data to support diagnoses.

As a licensed CLS/Technician, you will perform and evaluate serological tests, maintain quality control, and collaborate with nurses and physicians to resolve inquiries. Shift patterns include variable hours to cover patient care needs.

Qualifications

• Licensed CLS/Technician required by state board.
• Experience in clinical laboratory testing and specimen handling.
• Ability to follow universal precautions and safety protocols.

Responsibilities

• Perform and evaluate serological reactivity and rapid tests.
• Prepare samples and ensure specimens are acceptable for testing.
• Maintain aseptic technique and proper storage of components.
• Conduct quality control and document results for audits.
• Relay abnormal results to supervisors and clinicians as needed.
• Operate and troubleshoot laboratory instrumentation after orientation.
• Manage inventory and ensure reagent and supply readiness for shifts.

Skills

Attention to detail

Clinical testing

Quality control

Team communication

Education

CLS License

Tools

Lab instruments

Job description

Your job is more than a job Lab samples or specimens can hold the answers to a patient’s health problem, suffering or recovery.

As a Medical Laboratory Technician, you are the guardian that ensures the proper preparation, collection, preservation, transportation, and testing of samples.

Your attention to detail and inquisitive nature are a perfect match for performing clinical laboratory testing of blood and bodily fluids, recording and evaluating findings, and reporting data for use in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases.

And while you don’t know your patients personally, you take each urine or blood sample personally because it’s the connection to a real person who just wants to feel better, but they can’t get there without your help.

You love working behind the scenes, because you’re not looking for the limelight, just to shed light. That’s what we love about you. Your experiences, your knowledge, your skills, your empathy, your compassion, your personality, all of it adds up to you. And we’re excited to get to know you and find out what you’ll bring to this supportive diagnostic laboratory role.

Your Everyday Operate both primary and secondary instrumentation proficiently, ensure specimens are acceptable for testing, and report test results. Recognize and refer abnormal, unusual and critical results to supervisor. Maintain knowledge of standard phlebotomy and skin puncture techniques, and appropriate blood processing and handling procedures. Follow universal precautions, safety and infection control procedures, policies, and reports variances. Prepare blood components while maintaining aseptic technique and proper storage. Perform and evaluate serological reactivity and rapid antigen testing. Perform reagent quality control. Analyze quality control material for each procedure and record value. Perform proper processing, compliance, preservation, and shipping of specimens. Initiate orders for blood and/or blood components. Operate, calibrate, conduct performance checks and maintain any clinical laboratory instrument or equipment after orientation. Retrieve results as needed resolving questions to assist nurses, physicians or other hospital personnel. Check instruments and benches assigned for appropriate reagent and supply levels ensuring adequate inventory levels for incoming shifts.

The Must-Haves Minimum: Licensed Clinical Laboratory Scientist (CLS- Technician) through the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners WORK SHIFT: Variable Hours (United States of America)

LCMC Health is a community. Our people make health happen. While our NOLA roots run deep, our branches are the vessels that carry our mission of bringing the best possible care to every person and parish in Louisiana and beyond and put a little more heart and soul into healthcare along the way. Celebrating authenticity, originality, equity, inclusion and a little “come on in” attitude is the foundation of LCMC Health’s culture of everyday extraordinary

Your extras

• Deliver healthcare with heart.
• Give people a reason to smile.
• Put a little love in your work.
• Be honest and real, but with compassion.
• Bring some lagniappe into everything you do.
• Forget one-size-fits-all, think one-of-a-kind care.
• See opportunities, not problems – it’s all about perspective.
• Cheerlead ideas, differences, and each other.
• Love what makes you, you - because we do You are welcome here.

LCMC Health is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

About LCMC Health One-of-a-kind care comes from one-of-a-kind people. At LCMC Health, our people are the magic ingredient that makes our care so extra-extraordinary. We are compassionate, driven, and dedicated to bringing a little something extra to healthcare and to the people of New Orleans and beyond. If you’re the kind of person who believes that our community deserves the best and that healthcare needs a little more heart, we want you to be a part of our family. From medical roles to administrative positions, every person on our team plays a part in our mission: to provide health, care, and education beyond extraordinary. Let’s make every day extraordinary, together.