We have a first shift, medical technologist 2 position available at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois. This position includes a $5,000 sign on bonus.
Interested applicants can apply online at Rush's career web site. To submit your application, search using the job position #: 2021-2772. The position description and primary responsibilities are below.
Rush University Medical Center is one of the country's leading medical centers pushing the boundaries of healthcare services with innovative, compassionate, and accountable team members. Are you ready to challenge and grow your skills, contribute to providing top quality patient care, and enhance your career? Rush is a diverse and inclusive culture, and offers a competitive salary, and a valuable compensation package including health, dental and vision benefits, retirement, health savings accounts, and tuition assistance to invest in your future.
This position is responsible for performing all assigned laboratory testing and reporting for the testing area. This position requires teamwork to achieve common goals and meet deadlines to provide quality care to clients and patients. Demonstrates proficiency in identifying and resolving process issues that affect the laboratory's ability to perform laboratory testing.
Position Responsibilities:
- Demonstrates proficiency in all duties as defined in the role of Medical Technologist I.
- Demonstrates proficiency in identifying and resolving process issues that affect the laboratory's ability to perform laboratory testing
- Acts as a resource for identifying and solving quality control issues and escalating when appropriate.
- Demonstrates troubleshooting proficiency and therefore rarely needs to seek additional help.
- Required to prepare and present a minimum of 15 minutes of continuing education within the department.
- Required to identify and participate in process improvement projects.
- Ensures that sufficient reagents and supplies necessary for test performance are available. Notifies supervisory staff when minimum inventory level is encountered.
- Serves as an educator and trainer for students and new employees
- Recognizes when changes in the workflow are needed by adjusting work to incorporate STAT tests or fluctuations in work volume
- Serves as the owner of a test or process to ensure performance excels minimum quality requirements
- Utilizes required Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) as defined by the lab area. Labels and processes specimens properly. Performs all laboratory procedures efficiently and effectively with minimal supervision once trained. All testing must be done following Rush approved Policies and Procedures.
- Acts as a technical resource for the testing area.
- Performs required quality control (QC) procedures and preventative 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 or designee regarding QC problems or discrepancies according to the established procedure. Acts as a resource for identifying and solving quality control issues and escalating these when appropriate.
- Performs basic and advanced troubleshooting of equipment and processes with minimal assistance, documents action and notifies appropriate personnel. Demonstrates troubleshooting proficiency.
- Keeps work area neat, clean, organized, and well stocked at all times. Disinfects area at the beginning and end of each shift.
- Accepts no inappropriate specimens. Notifies appropriate person of specimens that must be drawn or collected again and documents the notification.
- Meets turnaround time expectations by prioritizing and organizing the workload for the shift. Monitors the pending list periodically to ensure turnaround time of all samples.
- Utilizes time effectively and seeks out additional job duties when shift tasks are complete. Completes work without incurring overtime. Assists fellow workers to finish shift tasks. Adheres to the defined allotted time for breaks and lunch.
- Required to obtain and document 12 hours of laboratory continuing education per year.
- 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 and training of new staff and students. Required to identify and participate in process improvement projects.
- Required to perform the duties of the tech-in- charge for specified periods of time. Oversees operations according to departmental guidelines. Understands when to defer issues to appropriate personnel, for example a supervisor or director, and does so.
- Reviews lab results as required and takes appropriate action before verification and release. Recognizes and calls critical results within defined time frames. Reviews paper generated results and transcribes accurately into the Lab Information System.
- Fulfills all job requirements of a Medical Technologist I.
- Additional job duties will be defined as appropriately needed.
Position Qualifications Include:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in relevant science required.
- Certification from nationally recognized certifying agency required. Some laboratory disciplines may require more stringent certification criteria.
- Experience: Minimum 24 contiguous months of laboratory related experience required. Some lab divisions may require more.
Company Highlights:
- Ranked among the top academic medical centers in the country, Rush University Medical Center is an outstanding place to enhance your career. Everything we do centers on one goal: improving patient care.
- For demonstrating leadership in the use of information technology, Rush University Medical Center and Rush Oak Park Hospital have been listed among the most wired hospitals in the nation by Hospitals & Health Networks magazine.
- Rush offers a competitive salary, and valuable healthy living benefits including: health, dental and vision to help you maintain and improve your health. Rush also offers several ways to invest in your future.
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Nicholas Moore, PhD, D(ABMM), MLS(ASCP)CM
Assistant Director & Associate Professor
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago IL
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