Job Information
Dignity Health Clinical Lab Scientist in Merced, California
Overview
Mercy Medical Center a Dignity Health member has been building a rich history of care in our community for more than 100 years. We have grown from a small one-story wooden structure into a major healthcare provider with a new 186-bed main campus offering the latest in facility design and technology. Mercy also operates Outpatient Centers a Cancer Center and several rural clinics.Wherever you work throughout our system you will find faces of experience with dedication to high quality personalized care. Joining our 1300 employees 230 physicians and many volunteers you can help carry out our commitment to providing our community with the excellence they have come to associate with Mercy Medical Center.
Responsibilities
Duties:
- Tests patient samples through various chemical, microscopic, serological, and bacteriologic
techniques
- Assists management with the maintenance of appropriate policies, procedures and equipment as
requested
- Conducts orientation and training of new personnel and monitors performance of appropriate
personnel in the section of primary responsibility as requested
- Operates and maintains automated equipment and maintains an adequate inventory of
departmental supplies
- Performs quality control, quality assurance, and performance improvement indicators routinely
in the department
- Assists in checking calculations, transcriptions, quality control, and quality assurance reports as
requested
Responsible for daily workflow to ensure timely and efficient departmental operations
Participates in professional growth by maintaining knowledge of lab specific policies and
procedures and taking advantage of the available educational opportunities
- Performs other related duties as assigned or requested in a professional manner
Special skills requirements:
- Working in different sections of the Laboratory such as Serology, Blood Bank,
Phlebotomy/Information, Hematology, Clinical Chemistry, Clinical Microscopy (Parasitology/
Urinalysis), and Bacteriology.
- Collecting blood, receiving urine, stool, and other specimens, and processing them with proper
adherence to quality assurance programs of the laboratory.
- Examine secretions and excretions of the human body by various electronics, chemical,
microscopic, bacteriologic, hematological, serologic, and immunologic procedures and
techniques either manual or automated.
- Evaluate and perform corrective actions using Quality Control specimens on various clinical
instruments.
- Operating the following laboratory equipment: Sysmex XS-1000i, Cepheid GeneExpert, Werfren
ACL tops, Biofire FilmArray Respiratory Panel, Siemens Dimension EXL 200, Piccolo Express,
Siemens Clinitek, various Serologic Test Kits.
- Must have a Clinical Laboratory Scientist (Generalist) License from the California Department of
Public Health
- Must have an International Medical Laboratory Scientist certification from the American Society
for Clinical Pathology (ASCP)
Qualifications
Education Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in Medical Technology, Clinical Laboratory Science, or closely related. Employer
will accept foreign equivalent degree if in the same field.
Experience Requirements:
24 months of experience in job offered, Medical Technologist, Medical Technologist II, or closely
related.
Pay Range
$47.75 - $64.26 /hour
We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.