Medical Lab Scientist / MLS

Hackensack Meridian Mountainside Medical Center

  • Montclair, NJ
  • Permanent
  • Part-time
  • 27 days ago
OverviewJoin our team as an evening shift, PRN, Blood Bank Medical Laboratory Scientist (MLS) in Montclair, NJ.Fulfilling your purpose begins here:People First, Always. Here’s how we take care of our people:
  • Competitive salaries, support teams and growth opportunities.
Your team is bigger than your department:
  • Hackensack Meridian Mountainside Medical Center is an 820,000-square-foot facility that offers the latest medical programs, cutting-edge technology, and patient-focused care that includes 365 beds, 1,200+ employees and a 27-bed Emergency Room/Fast Track Unit.
  • We believe healthcare is a team sport and every player has something to contribute. We show compassion, celebrate differences and treat one another with respect.
Responsibilities
  • Promote professionalism and interact with colleagues in a way that promotes a cooperative working environment.
  • Display technical expertise necessary to ensure timely and accurate results of laboratory procedures.
  • Ensure specimens are obtained and processed in accordance with laboratory guidelines.
  • Demonstrate proper communication skills to relate pertinent data or information about the patient or laboratory sample to appropriate care provider.
  • Support organizational priorities to maintain compliance with regulatory and accreditation standards.
  • Attain required competency and demonstrates the ability to follow procedural directions and protocols.
  • Exhibit problem-solving skills to troubleshoot and evaluate critical laboratory results.
  • Participate in the training/mentoring of new employees, students or interns including lectures and bench techniques.
  • Able to prioritize and organize workload and assist other coworkers to maintain productivity.
  • Demonstrate proper infection control practices, proper patient identification, performs proper prompt specimen transport.
  • Responsible for other duties as assigned.
  • Engage in self-evaluation of practice and takes action to improve knowledge and skills.
  • Promote consensus building and applies techniques of conflict resolution and conduct improvement.
  • Retain accountability for quality of care given to the patient.
  • Promote service excellence and growth of the laboratory.
QualificationsJob Requirements:
  • BS in Medical Technology, Clinical Laboratory Science or a chemical, physical, or biological science degree
  • ASCP or equivalent certification. Certification must be maintained without lapse during employment
Preferred Job Requirements:
  • Previous clinical laboratory experience as a Medical Laboratory Technician, Medical Technology, Clinical Laboratory Scientist or Medical Laboratory Scientist within a clinical laboratory

Hackensack Meridian Mountainside Medical Center