Medical Lab Scientist / MLS

Overview

Join our team as a day shift, PRN, Microbiology Medical Lab 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 demonstrate 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.

Qualifications

Job Requirements:

• Current knowledge of clinical laboratory techniques and principles.

• Previous clinical laboratory experience as a Medical Laboratory Technician, Medical Technology, Clinical Laboratory Scientist or Medical Laboratory Scientist within a clinical laboratory.

• Associates Degree or Bachelors Degree in Medical Laboratory Technician/Medical Technology, or a chemical, physical or biological science degree.

Preferred Job Requirements:

• ASCP or Equivalent

• Certification within a specific area, i.e. M(ASCP), H(ASCP), C(ASCP) qualifies.

• Certification must be maintained without lapse during employment.

• If certification does lapse, job will be downgraded to Medical Laboratory Scientist / Medical Lab Tech (non-certified) until certification is reinstated.