Travel Medical Lab Scientist - $2,245 per week

  • Sitka
  • Mt, Edgecumbe Hospital
    Certification Details
  • Medical Technologist (ASCP) OR Clinical Laboratory Scientist (AMT) OR equivalent certification (as determined by a national credential certification agency).
    Job Details
  • Preference given to a scientist with a strong Microbiology background.
  • Under minimal supervision, applies advanced technical skills and seasoned judgment to independently and competently provide a full range of sample test analyses and laboratory services in a hospital-based laboratory.
  • Shift work and night and weekend call are required to provide 24 hour laboratory coverage.
  • Perform all levels of testing including CLIA defined high complexity testing.
  • Works with infants, children, adolescents, adults and geriatric patients.
  • The work typically involves full responsibility for all technical aspects of the laboratory and includes a wide variety of duties involving diverse and complex technical problems and considerations, such as procuring compatible, lifesaving units of blood for a patient with antibodies.
  • Assignments involve such complicating factors as practical, economic or operating problems; inadequate or discrepant information about the use and capabilities of new instruments or methodologies; or requests for modified procedures, test alternative, or special studies to meet specific clinical situation.
  • Decisions directly or indirectly affect the quality of patient care and can be life or death decisions or problems.
    Job Requirements
  • A Bachelor's degree in Medical Technology or related field.
  • Progressively responsible work-related experience, education, or training may be substituted on a year-for-year basis for college education.
  • One (1) year of progressive clinical experience or one (1) year of hospital internship subsequent to degree.
    Schedule Information
  • Shift work and night and weekend call are required to provide 24 hour laboratory coverage.
    Unit Specific Information
  • The work typically involves full responsibility for all technical aspects of the laboratory.
  • Wide variety of duties involving diverse and complex technical problems and considerations.
  • Duties including procuring compatible, lifesaving units of blood for patients with antibodies.