Clinical Laboratory Specialist

**About CHI Health Schuyler**

We are proud to provide healthcare services close to home, serving the communities of Schuyler, Clarkson, Howells, Leigh, and rural Colfax County in Nebraska.

**Job Summary**

A Clinical Laboratory Specialist is responsible for accurately analyzing and reporting test results in a timely manner, adhering to laboratory procedures and regulatory guidelines. This role requires excellent patient care skills through clinical correlation of results, identification of patterns of bias, rapid notification of appropriate caregivers of critical values, and completion of testing within established turn-around-time limits.

**Key Responsibilities**

1. Performs and reports waived, moderately complex, and highly complex test procedures on patient specimens, adhering to the Section's Standard Operating Procedures to ensure accurate and timely reporting.

2. Provides excellent patient care through clinical correlation of results, identification of patterns of bias, rapid notification of appropriate caregivers of critical values, and completion of testing within established turn-around-time limits.

3. Ensures that major automated equipment is operational by performing required maintenance, calibration, and troubleshooting procedures, including contacting instrument vendors for assistance or repair.

4. Performs required calibration and quality control procedures and maintains records to ensure tests are being performed within established parameters.

5. Performs proficiency testing as assigned and reviews results with laboratory clinical leaders.

6. Assists in evaluating and generating compliant documentation for the validation of new procedures and equipment to provide physicians with the most current laboratory technology.

7. Participates in opportunities for continuing education and/or teaching, training according to the Section Performance Standards to enhance technical skills of students, trainees, coworkers, and self.

8. Responsible for inventory of supplies, including providing assistance with monitoring supplies, ordering, and placing received supplies into storage.

9. Completes all work and resolves or appropriately passes ongoing issues to incoming staff within the scheduled shift.

10. As a representative of CommonSpirit Health, utilizes professionalism and HumanKindness while communicating with physicians, hospital staff, patients, coworkers, other stakeholders in laboratory operations, and all members of the general public, whether in email, instant messaging, telephone, or face-to-face interactions.

**Requirements**

Bachelor's Degree in a biological or chemical science as defined by CLIA.

Required Licensure and Certifications:

California: CLS:CANevada: GS:NVNorth Dakota: MT-L:NDTennessee: MT-L:TN or MT ASCP or equivalent certification (per requirement sheet)Georgia: MT ASCP or equivalent certification (per requirement sheet)

Preferred Certification: MLS (ASCP) or equivalent (Per requirement sheet)

**Estimated Salary Range:** $60,000 - $80,000 per year, depending on experience and qualifications.