Medical Laboratory Scientist - Registered

Job Description:

Employer:                                        IHC Health Services, Inc. (dba Intermountain Health)

Job Title:                                          Medical Laboratory Scientist - Registered

Degree Required:                            Bachelor’s degree or equivalent foreign education

Academic Discipline(s):                  Chemical, Physical, Biological, Clinical Laboratory/Medical                

                                                          Laboratory Science.

Experience Required:                     6 months of experience

Alternate Occupations Accepted: Medical Laboratory Scientist or a closely related field

Job Description:

Responsible for testing in various departments of the clinical lab including Hematology, Chemistry, Microbiology, and Transfusion. This position requires acting as a technical expert to clinical staff, co-workers, and other departments. The position is critical to patient diagnosis and care, ensuring accurate results through quality control, proficiency testing, calibrations, record review, instrument maintenance, and results analysis and troubleshooting. Specific duties and responsibilities include the following:

• Analyzing laboratory findings to check the accuracy of results.
• Operating, calibrating, and maintaining laboratory analyzers used in quantitative and qualitative analysis.
• Receiving and studying blood samples to determine the number of cells, their morphology, or their blood group, blood type, or compatibility for transfusion purposes, using analyzers and microscopic techniques.
• Managing blood product inventory and dispensing of blood products for transfusion.
• Performing and reporting on molecular tests for infectious diseases.
• Performing microscopic evaluation of body fluids, including identification of cells, bacteria, yeast and crystals.
• Responding to traumas and providing emergency testing services.
• Entering data from analysis of medical tests or clinical results into medical records.
• Perform and monitor quality control on testing to ensure the accuracy of laboratory results.
• Analyzing samples of biological material for chemical content or reaction.
• Setting up, cleaning, and maintaining laboratory equipment.
• Provide technical advice and training to lab assistants, medical and clinical laboratory technicians or technologists, or other medical laboratory workers engaged in laboratory testing.
• Demonstrated effective communication skills using email, telephone and in person.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Medical Technologist / Medical Lab Scientist MLS ASCP certification.
• Knowledge of each of the following:
  • Working in a clinical laboratory setting (hospital, clinic, or reference lab)
  • Laboratory Information systems, databases and spreadsheets.
  • Hospital Electronic Medical Record Systems.
  • Working with laboratory equipment including hematology, chemistry, immunochemistry, urinalysis, coagulation, toxicology testing systems, and semen analysis.
  • Performing routine testing, quality control, calibration and troubleshooting of laboratory analyzers.
  • Specimen processing and handling, including blood, semen, urine, stool, and all other body fluids.
  • Body fluid cell counts and manual differentials as well as peripheral blood manual differentials.
  • Hematology studies, body fluid analysis, clinical chemistries, coagulation studies, and urinalysis.
  • Blood and body cell morphology, including the ability to recognize cells that may be indicative of a pathological disease.
  • Rapid microbiology testing, PCR testing and analyzers.
  • Perform validation testing and reports, evaluate quality control and set up of new laboratory instrumentation and methods.

Upon hire, all applicants will be subject to drug testing/screening and background checks.

Salary (Annual):          $66,102 to $76,102

Work Locations:         900 Round Valley Drive, Park City, UT 84060

                                    454 East Medical Way, Heber City, UT 84032

Hours of work:            40 hours per week. Variable shifts, must be willing to work a variety of shifts that may include weekends, holidays, nights and on-call. Regularly includes every other weekend.  Must be willing to work either location as needed.  Must be available to be