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Join our team as a night shift, full-time, Medical Laboratory Scientist in Montclair, NJ.
Fulfilling your purpose begins here:
People First, Always. Here's how we take care of our people:
Your team is bigger than your department:
Responsibilities
Qualifications
Job Requirements
Preferred Job Requirements
Join our team as a night shift, full-time, Medical Laboratory Scientist in Montclair, NJ.
Fulfilling your purpose begins here:
People First, Always. Here's how we take care of our people:
- Medical, vision, dental health insurance, health savings account / flexible spending, competitive pay, paid time off, 401k retirement plan with company match, employee assistance program and more.
Your team is bigger than your department:
- Hackensack Meridian Mountainside Medical Center is an 820,000-square-foot facility that offers the latest medical programs, cutting-edge technology, and patient-focused care that includes 365 beds, 1,200+ employees and a 27-bed Emergency Room/Fast Track Unit.
- We believe healthcare is a team sport and every player has something to contribute. We show compassion, celebrate differences and treat one another with respect.
Responsibilities
- Promote professionalism and interact with colleagues in a way that promotes a cooperative working environment.
- Display technical expertise necessary to ensure timely and accurate results of laboratory procedures.
- Ensure specimens are obtained and processed in accordance with laboratory guidelines.
- Demonstrate proper communication skills to relate pertinent data or information about the patient or laboratory sample to appropriate care provider.
- Support organizational priorities to maintain compliance with regulatory and accreditation standards.
- Attain required competency and demonstrates the ability to follow procedural directions and protocols.
- Exhibit problem-solving skills to troubleshoot and evaluate critical laboratory results.
- Participate in the training/mentoring of new employees, students or interns including lectures and bench techniques.
- Able to prioritize and organize workload and assist other coworkers to maintain productivity.
- Demonstrate proper infection control practices, proper patient identification, performs proper prompt specimen transport.
- Responsible for other duties as assigned.
- Engage in self-evaluation of practice and takes action to improve knowledge and skills.
- Promote consensus building and applies techniques of conflict resolution and conduct improvement.
- Retain accountability for quality of care given to the patient.
- Promote service excellence and growth of the laboratory.
Qualifications
Job Requirements
- BS in Medical Technology, Clinical Laboratory Science or a chemical, physical, or biological science degree
- ASCP or equivalent certification. Certification must be maintained without lapse during employment
Preferred Job Requirements
- Previous clinical laboratory experience as a Medical Laboratory Technician, Medical Technology, Clinical Laboratory Scientist or Medical Laboratory Scientist within a clinical laboratory
