Job Summary

Utilizes laboratory skills to perform and report results of clearly defined laboratory procedures assuring optimal patient outcomes. Responsible for assigned shifts and subject to overtime and call back as required. Performs other duties as assigned.

Responsibilities

Receives, identifies, organizes, and prioritizes specimens to ensure accurate and timely test processing.
Performs and reports requested laboratory procedures.
Performs quality control, proficiency testing and routine instrument maintenance and inventory control and document as required.
Evaluates positive patient identification to reduce analytical and post-analytical error and/or adverse patient outcomes.
Assesses, evaluates and draws appropriate conclusions.
Follows regulatory requirements, competency requirements and maintains safe laboratory practice.
Completes assigned goals.

Specifications

Experience

Minimum Required

Preferred/Desired

Clinical laboratory experience preferred.

Education

Minimum Required

Associate degree in Medical Laboratory Technology from an accredited MLT program, or successful completion of at least a 50 week official US military medical laboratory procedures training course and currently hold or have held the military enlisted occupational specialty of Medical Laboratory Specialist

Preferred/Desired

Training

Minimum Required

Preferred/Desired

Special Skills

Minimum Required

Basic computer literacy.

Preferred/Desired

Licensure

Minimum Required

National certification in concordance with current federal and/or state regulations. Full certification must be obtained within six months of hire date.

Preferred/Desired

Baptist Memorial Health Care is one of the country’s largest not-for-profit health care systems and the largest provider of Medicaid in the region. Baptist offers a full continuum of care to communities throughout the Mid-South and consistently ranks among the top integrated health care networks in the country. The health care system comprises 24 affiliate hospitals in West Tennessee, Mississippi and East Arkansas; more than 5,400 affiliated physicians; Baptist Medical Group, a multispecialty physician group with more than 900 providers; home, hospice and psychiatric care; minor medical centers and clinics; a network of surgery, rehabilitation and other outpatient centers; and an education system highlighted by Baptist Health Sciences University (formerly Baptist College of Health Sciences). Baptist employs more than 21,000 people, and in fiscal year 2022 contributed more than $455 million in community benefit and uncompensated care to the communities it serves. For more information, please visit www.baptistonline.org or follow us on Facebook or Instagram.

Technician-Medical Laboratory

Technician-Medical Laboratory

Boost Your Interview Chances