Medical Lab Scientist I

Job Title: Medical Laboratory Scientist
Job Location: Indianapolis, IN
Job Duration: 6-7+ months (Possibility of Extension)
Shift: Evening and Night Shift (Dayshift during initial training).
Evening hours: 02:00 PM – 10:30 PM EST.
Night hours: 10:00 PM – 06:30 AM EST.
 
Description:

• Follow the laboratory's procedures for specimen handling and processing, test analyses, reporting and maintaining records of patient test result.
• Maintain records that demonstrate that proficiency testing samples are tested in the same manner as patient specimens.
• Analyze specimens using approved testing procedures.
• Review and release test results.
• Follow CLIA, HIPAA, OSHA, and safety guidelines as described in their respective guidelines.
• Follow the laboratory's established policies and procedures whenever test systems are not within the laboratory's established acceptable levels of performance.
• Identify problems that may adversely affect test performance or reporting of test results, correct the problems encountered or immediately notify the senior technologist or supervisor.

 
Education:

• Bachelor's degree required, degree in Chemistry or Biochemistry strongly preferred.
• Transcripts will be requested for review throughout consideration process.

 
Work Experience:

• 1 year Clinical experience (high complexity testing) preferred
• Experience with LC-MS or ICP-MS strongly preferred

 
Additional Details: May be required to use a wide variety of manual and automated pipettes and laboratory instruments and apparatuses all of which demand significant manual dexterity.