Clinical Laboratory Scientist

Dignity Health Woodland Memorial Hospital is Yolo County’s largest health care provider, serving the community since 1905. Woodland Memorial Hospital is a 108-bed acute care facility offering the most comprehensive range of health care services in Yolo County, including inpatient and outpatient surgical services, family birth center/labor and delivery, emergency services, home health services, palliative care, inpatient mental health services, sleep disorders center and cancer care services. With strong ties to our community, we believe in providing compassionate, high-quality health care to you and your family, close to home. Woodland Memorial Hospital is part of Dignity Health, one of the nation’s largest health care systems with a 22-state network. For more information, please visit our website here at www.dignityhealth.org/woodland.

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Job Summary:

Accurately analyzes and reports all tests ordered by the Medical Staff in a timely manner and according to laboratory procedures and regulatory guidelines to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of patients.

Job Details:

• 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

• 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

• Ensures that major automated equipment is operational by performing required maintenance, calibration and troubleshooting procedures; including contacting of instrument vendor for assistance or repair

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

• Performs proficiency testing as assigned and review results with laboratory clinical leaders

• Assists in evaluation and generation of compliant documentation for the validation of new procedures and equipment to provide the physician with the most current laboratory technology

• 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

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

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

• 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

• Adheres to all regulatory requirements

Education and Experience:

Bachelor's Degree in a biological or chemical science as defined by Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA)

Licensure and Certifications (California Requirements):

• Required: Clinical Laboratory Scientist (CLS) license issued by the California Department of Public Health (CDPH)

• Preferred: Medical Laboratory Scientist (MLS) certification by the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) or equivalent (per requirement sheet)

Minimum Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Training:

Must be appropriately trained in clinical laboratory science as evaluated by the Director of the Clinical Laboratory