Job Description

Description

Methodist Stone Oak Hospital

Clinical Laboratory Scientist I

Laboratory Department

Full Time - Non-Exempt

Evening Shift/Rotating Weekends

Do you have a passion for healthcare and helping others? Do you enjoy working in a fast-paced, patient-centered environment? Jump-start your career in our Laboratory Department. Submit your application today!

Benefits:
We offer you an excellent total compensation package, including competitive salary, excellent benefit package and growth opportunities. We believe in our team and your ability to do excellent work with us. Your benefits include 401k, PTO medical, dental, flex spending, life, disability, tuition reimbursement, employee discount program, employee stock purchase program and student loan repayment. We would love to talk to you about this fantastic opportunity.

Seeking a Clinical Laboratory Scientist I is responsible for performing routine and complex medical laboratory tests and analysis of results; assuming accountability for accurate results and responsibility for assigned equipment within section/department.

In this role, the Certified Medical Technologist I will:

Performs specimen processing and testing independently to include moderate and high complexity testing.

Analyzes test results - demonstrates knowledge of pathological processes with correlation of disease states and test results.

Understands, performs, and practices preventive maintenance on assigned equipment; troubleshoots and takes corrective action.

Understands, performs, and practices quality control to include running controls, evaluating data, documentation of data, and taking corrective action as required. Communicates any relevant QC information to supervisor/lead tech.

Assumes responsibility for own development; meets timeliness for gaining skills. Satisfactorily completes competency checklist for this position

Provides technical information about test results to physicians, nurses and patients. Acts as a resource to others.

Qualifications:

Minimum Education and Experience: A. High school diploma (or equivalent), with 11 years of clinical lab experience. -OR

B. 60 semester hours (90 quarter hours) of academic credit from an accredited college or University, including 24 hours of medical technology or 24 hours of science including 6 hours of chemistry, 6 hours of biology and 12 hours of courses in chemistry, biology or medical technology combination, and successful completion of a 50 week U.S. military medical laboratory training course. -OR

C. Associates Degree from an accredited MLT training program. -OR

D. Bachelors Degree from a 4 year accredited CLS program.

Minimum License and Certificates Required: Not Applicable

Methodist Hospital Specialty and Transplant has been nationally recognized for its record setting kidney, liver and pancreas transplant programs. It is home to the Texas Transplant Institute and is the largest living donor kidney transplant program in the US. According to the United Network of Organ Sharing database, the center reached a major milestone in 2019 by performing 231 living donor kidney transplants in a single year setting a new national record - that\xe2\x80\x99s 65 more transplants than the second center on the list.

In addition to transplant care, Methodist Hospital Specialty and Transplant is a full service hospital with over 260 beds that provides specialized services for liver cancer care, emergency care, weight loss surgery, urology surgery, vascular surgery, inpatient rehabilitation, colorectal surgery and behavioral health care. It is a designated Center of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Excellence by the American Society for Bariatric Surgery. Our Sexual Assault Response Team provides a compassionate environment for sexual assault survivors ages 13+, serving as a model for hospitals and agencies all over the world. Methodist Hospital Specialty and Transplant prides itself on providing the highest quality of patient care possible as proven by their consecutive Grade A scores from the Leapfrog\xe2\x80\x99s Hospital Safety Grade survey and ranking in the nation\xe2\x80\x99s top quartile for patient experience. For more information, please visit our website at www.sahealth.com and select Methodist Hospital Specialty and Transplant under Locations.

Methodist Hospital Stone Oak