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Job Requisition ID:

R00040243

Job Category:

Allied Health

Organization:

Holmes County Lab

Location/s:

HOLMES COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER

Job Title:

Supervisor-Medical Technologist-Holmes County

Job Summary:

To perform a full range of laboratory tests, procedures, experiments, and analyses for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease. To develop, standardize, evaluate, and modify procedures, techniques, and tests used in the analysis of specimens and in medical laboratory experiments. To compile scientific, technical, statistical, and/or numerical data. To supervise the laboratory operation and personnel performing tests and reporting test results.

Education & Experience

Bachelor's degree in Medical Technology/Clinical Lab Sciences or equivalent combination of education and experience necessary to meet registration requirements in the area specialty (Blood Bank, Chemistry Hematology, Microbiology, or Immunology/Molecular Pathology) and two (2) years of experience as a Registered Medical Technologist.

CERTIFICATIONS, LICENSES OR REGISTRATION REQUIRED:  American Association of Bioanalyst, MT (AAB); American Medical Technologist, MT (AMT); American Society for Clinical Pathology, MT (ASCP); National Credentialing Agency for Laboratory Personnel CLS (NCA); or equivalent categorical registration in Medical Technology such as RMT (ISCLT).

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Knowledge of laboratory and experimental protocols and procedures. 

Knowledge of chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations they undergo. 

Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment. 

Analytical skills. 

Skill in the use of personal computers and related software applications. 

Ability to analyze, verify, and manipulate clinical and/or laboratory data. 

Ability to perform a full range of clinical laboratory tests and chemical analysis. 

Ability to work with/around potentially bio-hazardous and chemical hazardous conditions. 

Ability to monitor and maintain quality control, safety, and/or infection control standards.


Responsibilities

• Conducts clinical laboratory tests and analysis in the areas of hematology, microbiology, immunology, clinical chemistry and urinalysis; establishes and monitors programs to ensure the accuracy of laboratory results.
• Analyzes samples of biological material for chemical content or reaction.
• Conducts chemical analysis of body fluids to determine the presence of normal and abnormal components.
• Cultivates, isolates, assists in identifying, and conducts tests on microbial organisms; obtains, cuts, stains, and mounts biological material on slides for microscopic study and diagnosis.
• Selects and prepares specimens and media for cell culture, using aseptic technique; studies blood samples to determine the number of cells and their morphology, as well as blood group, type, and compatibility for transfusion purposes.
• Operates, calibrates and maintains equipment used in quantitative and qualitative analysis such as spectrophotometers, calorimeters, flame photometers, and computer controlled analyzers; promotes safety, environmental, and/or infection control practices.
• Trains and mentors staff. 
• The duties listed are general in nature and are examples of the duties and responsibilities performed and are not meant to be construed as exclusive or all-inclusive.  Management retains the right to add or change duties at any time.

Physical and Environmental Demands

Requires occasional exposure to unpleasant or disagreeable physical environment such as high noise level and exposure to heat and cold, constant exposure to biohazardous conditions such as risk of radiation exposure, blood borne pathogens, fumes or airborne particles, and/or toxic or caustic chemicals which mandate attention to safety considerations, constant work produced subject to precise measures of quantity and quality, frequent bending, occasional lifting and carrying up to 50 pounds, occasional crouching/stooping, frequent pushing/pulling, frequent reaching, frequent sitting, frequent standing, frequent twisting, and frequent walking. (occasional-up to 20%, frequent-from 21% to 50%, constant-51% or more)

Time Type:

Full time

FLSA Designation/Job Exempt:

No

Pay Class:

Hourly

FTE %:

100

Work Shift:

Benefits Eligibility:

Grant Funded:

Job Posting Date:

12/17/2024

Job Closing Date (open until filled if no date specified):