Medical Lab Scientist / MLS

Join our team as an evening shift, PRN, Blood Bank Medical Laboratory Scientist (MLS) in Montclair, NJ.

Fulfilling your purpose begins here: 

People First, Always. Here’s how we take care of our people: 

• Competitive salaries, support teams and growth opportunities. 

Your team is bigger than your department: 

• Hackensack Meridian Mountainside Medical Center is an 820,000-square-foot facility that offers the latest medical programs, cutting-edge technology, and patient-focused care that includes 365 beds, 1,200+ employees and a 27-bed Emergency Room/Fast Track Unit.
• We believe healthcare is a team sport and every player has something to contribute. We show compassion, celebrate differences and treat one another with respect. 

• Promote professionalism and interact with colleagues in a way that promotes a cooperative working environment.
• Display technical expertise necessary to ensure timely and accurate results of laboratory procedures.
• Ensure specimens are obtained and processed in accordance with laboratory guidelines.
• Demonstrate proper communication skills to relate pertinent data or information about the patient or laboratory sample to appropriate care provider.
• Support organizational priorities to maintain compliance with regulatory and accreditation standards.
• Attain required competency and demonstrates the ability to follow procedural directions and protocols.
• Exhibit problem-solving skills to troubleshoot and evaluate critical laboratory results.
• Participate in the training/mentoring of new employees, students or interns including lectures and bench techniques.
• Able to prioritize and organize workload and assist other coworkers to maintain productivity.
• Demonstrate proper infection control practices, proper patient identification, performs proper prompt specimen transport.  
• Responsible for other duties as assigned.
• Engage in self-evaluation of practice and takes action to improve knowledge and skills.         
• Promote consensus building and applies techniques of conflict resolution and conduct improvement.  
• Retain accountability for quality of care given to the patient.
• Promote service excellence and growth of the laboratory.

Job Requirements:

• BS in Medical Technology, Clinical Laboratory Science or a chemical, physical, or biological science degree
• ASCP or equivalent certification. Certification must be maintained without lapse during employment

Preferred Job Requirements:

• Previous clinical laboratory experience as a Medical Laboratory Technician, Medical Technology, Clinical Laboratory Scientist or Medical Laboratory Scientist within a clinical laboratory