Medical Laboratory Technician I

at  HSHS St Elizabeths Hospital

Overview:
Throughout communities in Illinois and Wisconsin, 13 hospitals, numerous community-based health centers and clinics, our 13,000+ colleagues have built a culture based on our solid core values of respect, care, competence, and joy. These are the ideals we believe in, work by, and live each day.
Built upon more than 145 years of service to the communities we serve, we now look to the future and our place in it as a health care system that strives to continually improve processes, procedures, and outcomes with the latest and most advanced technologies and treatments.
Regardless of how far our passion for excellence carries us, our focus will always remain on the most important person in our entire organization: The patient.
HSHS requires COVID-19 vaccines or an approved medical or religious exemption for all colleagues. This does not apply to positions that are classified as 100% remote.
HSHS and affiliates is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE).
HSHS is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.
Summary:
Under general supervision, performs routine tests in medical laboratory to provide data for use in the diagnosis and treatment of disease, ensuring validity and accuracy of test results. Analysis performed may range from routine to complex testing, involving all major areas of the clinical laboratory and creating reports for findings.
Qualifications:
Education
Associate’s degree required and successful completion of a National Accreditation Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences (NAACLS) accredited medical laboratory technician program, OR Associate’s degree and at least 60 academic credit hours including 6 hours chemistry and 6 hours biology and successful completion of a 50 week US military medical laboratory training course, OR Associates degree and at least 60 academic credit hours including 6 hours chemistry and 6 hours biology and 3 years full time lab experience in an accredited laboratory within the last 10 years.
Physician Enterprise: Associates degree in Laboratory Sciences (including chemical, physical, biological or clinical laboratory) is required.
Experience
Experience in an accredited lab is preferred.
Certifications, Licenses and Registrations

Medical Technician or Medical Laboratory Technician or eligibility for certification by a nationally recognized certifying agency such as:

• American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP)
• National Credentialing Agency for Laboratory Personnel (NCA)
• American Medical Technologies (AMT)
• Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW)
• or other laboratory certifying agency is required.

Certification must be received within 180 days of hire.
Colleagues hired prior to January 1, 2017 are exempt from this requirement.
Physician Enterprise: Medical Laboratory Technician (MLT) certification is preferred.
Physical Requirements: Allied Healt

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