CLS II

Mercy Medical Center, a Dignity Health member, has been building a rich history of care in our community for more than 100 years. We have grown from a small one-story wooden structure into a major healthcare provider with a new 186-bed main campus, offering the latest in facility design and technology. Mercy also operates Outpatient Centers, a Cancer Center and several rural clinics.

Wherever you work throughout our system, you will find faces of experience with dedication to high quality, personalized care. Joining our 1,300 employees, 230 physicians and many volunteers, you can help carry out our commitment to providing our community with the excellence they have come to associate with Mercy Medical Center.

One Community. One Mission. One California 

Provides laboratory testing to inpatients and outpatients quality control and instrument maintenance and related record keeping and result reporting. Responsible for developing and maintaining a laboratory section (e.g.: chemistrymicrobiologytransfusion services/coagulation hematology/urinalysisPoint of Care TestingLaboratory Information System) procedures operations technical activities training in accordance with all California State Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS/Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act/CLIA) Joint Commission (JC) regulatory guidelines and established MMCM policies. May be assigned to or rotate to various areas such as: Microbiology Chemistry/Special Chemistry Transfusion Services Coagulation Hematology Urinalysis and Immunology. Patients served are neonatal pediatric adolescent adults and geriatric age groups.

• Performs a variety of chemical, hematologic, microscopic, bacteriologic, and immunologic tests and procedures accurately and in a timely manner.
• Performs tests and procedures based on area, being aware of differences and making adjustments to testing procedures due to the patient's age, body chemistry, sex or disorder that may cause differences in normal range results. Demonstrates knowledge and skills necessary to provide services of high complexity based on the age of the patient served. Demonstrates the understanding of growth and development over the life span and possesses the technical ability to produce test results and compare those results to the reference ranges established for that age group.
• Performs STAT and ASAP testing within the established turnaround times. Addition: Reports and Documents all Critical Values and Results consistent with established Clinical Laboratory and MMCM Policy.
• Maintains a good working knowledge of the laboratory computer system including entering of patient demographics, specimen order entry, result collation, result certification, result inquiry, and report distribution. Must be able to amend results, document results called to other health care providers, print work documents, print and reconcile incomplete worksheets, and perform minor troubleshooting.
• Must also be able to shut down or start up the various LIS workstations using established procedures.

Minimum:

• Education level necessary to obtain required licensure and certifications: A doctor of medicine, osteopathy, or doctor of podiatric medicine licensed to practice, osteopathy, podiatry in the state in which the laboratory is located, or have earned a doctoral, masters or bachelor's degree in a chemical, physical, biological, or clinical laboratory science or medical technology from an accredited institution; or An associate degree in a chemical, physical, or biological science or medical laboratory technology from an accredited institution; or High school diploma or equivalent and have successfully completed an official military medical laboratory procedures course of at least 50 weeks duration, and have held the military enlisted occupational specialty of Medical Laboratory Specialist (Medical Technician); or High school diploma or equivalent, and have such documentation of training appropriate for the testing performed prior to analyzing patient specimens. Such training must ensure that the individual has the skills required for the proper specimen collection, including patient preparation, if applicable, labeling handling, preservation or fixation, processing or preparation, transportation and storage of specimens etc., etc.

• Must possess and maintain a current Clinical Laboratory Scientist (CLS) license with the state of California.

• Computer literate

Preferred:

• Two (2) years of increasingly responsible experience as a clinical laboratory technologist in an approved clinical hospital laboratory.
• Possession of a Master's Degree or Ph.D. in clinical laboratory technology or a related field may be substituted for one year of the required experience.