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Job Title: Medical Technologist
Location: Chicago, IL
Start Date: ASAP
Major Responsibilities:
- Must Have MT or MLT (ASCP)
- Perform laboratory testing while ensuring quality patient care.
- Innovation (Process Improvement) – Suggests and develops new ideas and approaches in the workplace. Exhibits adaptability and willingness to change.
- Collaboration (Teamwork) – Creates constructive relationships to achieve mutually positive clinical, or service outcomes with peers, management, customers, and other departments.
- Accountability (Critical Values and Clinical Correlation) – Recognizes and takes appropriate action with critical values all the time. Reports accurate results. Correlates interlaboratory results with each other and other clinical information. Suggests and performs follow-up where appropriate.
- Respect (Interpersonal Relations) – Has a positive effect on others including the ability to establish and maintain positive and productive working relationships. Inspires good will, cooperation, trust, and mutual respect among a wide range of people.
- Excellence (Technical Expectations and Employee Development) – Acts as a resource person to coworkers and customers for technical questions. Demonstrates a thorough knowledge of the technical tasks (for example, writing procedures, clerical processes) associated with the assigned area of responsibility. Attends and documents the division's required hours of continuing education. Helps instruct students, residents, and new employees. Evaluates their performance within established deadlines.
Troubleshooting & QC Medical Technologist I:
- Performs basic troubleshooting of equipment and processes with minimal assistance, documents action and notifies appropriate personnel, for example, supervisors, of problems all the time.
- Performs required QC procedures and preventive maintenance, including corrective action and documentation, for all procedures and instrumentation.
- Recognizes QC problems or discrepancies and attempts to determine the cause of problem.
- Notifies appropriate supervisor regarding QC problems or discrepancies according to the established procedure.
- Organization of Work Area – Keeps work area neat, clean, organized, and well stocked always.
- Specimen Acceptability and Specimen Processing – Accepts no inappropriate specimens annually.
- Notifies appropriate person of specimens that must be drawn or collected again.
- Labels and processes specimens properly.
- Procedure Complexity – Performs routine procedures efficiently and effectively.
- Turnaround Time Expectations – Meets turnaround time expectations by prioritizing and organizing daily workloads.
- Time Management – Utilizes time effectively.
- Completes work without incurring overtime and at times assists fellow workers to finish daily tasks.
- Special Projects – Accepts and/or volunteers for method evaluations and new procedure development or other special projects and completes them within an agreed upon time frame.
- Participates in procedure implementation when appropriate.
- "Tech-in-Charge" – Acts as "tech-in- charge” for specified periods of time.
- Oversee operations according to departmental guidelines.
- Understands when to defer issues to appropriate personnel, for example a supervisor or director, and does so.
- Report Reviewing and Results Reporting – Reviews computer generated reports at the appropriate time.
- Education: Bachelor of Science degree in relevant science and certification (or eligible) from nationally recognized certifying agency.
- Experience: No previous experience required.
- Personal: Interacts effectively with peers, internal and external customers.
- Able to work in fast pace, often stressful, computerized environment.
- Able to lift 10 lbs. and perform repetitive motions.
- Works in laboratory with exposure to potentially infectious materials.
- Employees in this job classification are qualified to perform high complexity testing.
- Employees' education and/or laboratory experience meet the requirements delineated in the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act of 1988 (CLIA '88).
Company Highlights:
- Ranked among the top academic medical centers in the country, our client is an outstanding place to enhance your career. Everything they do centers on one goal: improving patient care. Not-for-profit health care, education and research enterprise. 14-story hospital Tower is the cornerstone of the clients Transformation, and is the symbol of a philosophy-an evolution in the delivery of patient-centered care. Leading academic medical center, acute care hospital with 664 licensed beds.
- The client offers a competitive salary, valuable healthy living benefits to include: health, dental and vision to help you maintain and improve your health. The client also offers several ways to invest in your future. Whether you’re saving for retirement or a child’s education, or furthering your own education, the client offers benefits to help you make the most of your money…now and in the future.
