Lab Technician
Lab Technician
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Job Description
Overview
Founded by the Sisters of Mercy Mercy Hospitals have a history of caring for our community that goes back more than 100 years. We provide a broad range of medical and surgical services including minimally invasive and outpatient options. Our family of services includes the areas only inpatient oncology unit the Orthopedic Spine and Hand Center Family Birth Center the Lactation Support Center and retail store and many others. Mercy Hospital Downtown is a 194-bed facility located in downtown Bakersfield. Mercy Hospital Southwest is a 78-bed facility and the only hospital located in the rapidly growing area west of Highway 99. Mercy Hospital is a member of Dignity Health and is a trusted community partner serving residents of Bakersfield and Kern County with quality compassionate care since 1910. Learn more here at Community. One Mission. One California
Responsibilities
Position Summary:
The Clinical Laboratory Technician who will report to the Laboratory Supervisor isresponsible for assisting in the laboratory examinations and testing of waived andmoderate complexity as defined under the scope of practice by the State of California
Department of Public Health Laboratory Field Services.
Duties include: receiving andprocessing blood samples; centrifugation and loading barcoded specimens ontoautomated analyzers that are interfaced to the LIS; aliquoting and handling ofreference lab specimens; assisting in performing waived and moderate complexitytesting. Additional duties include clerical and telephone communication in support ofthe Laboratories functions. When licensed to do so may also perform the duties of aClinical Laboratory Assistant and other duties as directed by the Clinical LaboratoryScientist.
Qualifications
Minimum Requirements:
- 1 year of clinical laboratory experience including knowledge of instrument operation specimen processing knowledge of specimen send-outs and/or microbiology specimen processing
- Certified Phlebotomy Techniciancertificate from LFS DPH CA (CACPT I LICENSE)
- Heartsaver certification or Basic Life Support (BLS) certification
Preferred Requirements:
- Five years of clinical laboratory experience or two years of college preferred
- One year acute care hospital experience preferred
Please be advised that this location requires quarterly American Heart Association (AHA) Resuscitation Quality Improvement (RQI) competency certification post-hire. This ongoing competency is required through resources internal to the facility; outside RQI competency resources are not acceptable for CommonSpirit Health compliance requirements.
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
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