Clinical Laboratory Scientist

Quick Facts

• Role: Clinical Laboratory Scientist (full performance level)
• Work schedule: Full time; Monday–Friday 4 PM–midnight with rotating on-call, weekends, and holidays

Description

Independently performs the day-to-day operations of a clinical laboratory, including developing, performing, evaluating, interpreting, correlating, and validating laboratory procedures and results in accordance with current regulatory requirements. Work spans multiple laboratory specialties and includes quality control, routine instrumentation maintenance, troubleshooting, and collaboration in patient diagnosis and treatment. Limited duties may include laboratory information management and ancillary testing.

Responsibilities

• Assume responsibility for maintaining operations including preventive maintenance and training on new test systems
• Assist in writing procedures and other documents
• Modify or adapt methods/techniques to improve or expand services
• Develop protocols for test performance and evaluation of results
• Ensure laboratory tests and procedures align with accrediting agencies’ standards
• Perform validation/method verification studies for new systems
• Monitor and maintain inventory (reagents, calibrators, quality control, etc.)
• Consult with healthcare providers on logical protocols to confirm patient diagnosis or risk assessment
• Provide technical advice to staff and other health care members
• Assist with staff competency assessment as applicable
• Maintain knowledge of and comply with federal CLIA 1988 regulations
• Instruct and coordinate teaching activities for CLS students to fulfill requirements of an NMCLS-accredited CLS program
• Other duties as assigned

Benefits

• Competitive salary with regular salary increases
• Paid Time Off: 37–50 days of annual paid time offer per year (annual leave, sick leave, and paid federal holidays)
• Parental Leave: up to 12 weeks paid parental leave after 12 months of employment
• Child Care Subsidy: after 60 days, eligible full-time employees with qualifying income may receive up to 25% of eligible childcare costs (with a monthly maximum)
• Retirement: traditional federal pension and federal 401(k) with up to 5% contributions
• Insurance: federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care options