Lab Technician Southwest Facility

Founded in 1910, Dignity Health - Mercy Hospital is a 229-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Bakersfield, California. Serving nearly 90,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including Level II NICU, cancer care, women’s health, and orthopedics. Additionally, Mercy Hospital Downtown & Mercy Hospital Southwest have been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. They are both Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Centers. Mercy Hospital Downtown offers the only inpatient Oncology Unit in Bakersfield while Mercy Hospital Southwest has the only Obstetric Emergency Department in Bakersfield.

One Community. One Mission. One California 

Position Summary:

The Clinical Laboratory Technician who will report to the Laboratory Supervisor, is responsible for assisting in the laboratory examinations and testing of waived and moderate complexity as defined under the scope of practice by the State of California,
Department of Public Health Laboratory Field Services.

Duties include: receiving and processing blood samples; centrifugation and loading barcoded specimens onto automated analyzers that are interfaced to the LIS; aliquoting and handling of reference lab specimens; assisting in performing waived and moderate complexity testing. Additional duties include clerical and telephone communication in support of the Laboratories functions. When licensed to do so, may also perform the duties of a Clinical Laboratory Assistant and other duties as directed by the Clinical Laboratory Scientist.

Minimum Requirements:

• 1 year of clinical laboratory experience including knowledge of instrument operation specimen processing knowledge of specimen send-outs and/or microbiology specimen processing
• Certified Phlebotomy Technician certificate from LFS DPH CA (CA CPT I LICENSE)
• Heartsaver certification or Basic Life Support (BLS) certification

Preferred Requirements:

• Five years of clinical laboratory experience or two years of college preferred
• One year acute care hospital experience preferred

Please be advised that this location requires quarterly American Heart Association (AHA) Resuscitation Quality Improvement (RQI) competency certification post-hire. This ongoing competency is required through resources internal to the facility; outside RQI competency resources are not acceptable for CommonSpirit Health compliance requirements.