Job Description

The Clinical Laboratory Scientist I handles all infectious disease testing and performs all essential functions such as laboratory safety, Good Documentation Practice (GDP), Good Laboratory Practice (GLP), specimen processing and troubleshooting maintaining productivity and quality assigned metrics, and providing effective communication with laboratory management and team.

Responsibilities:

• Performing sample prep, DNA extraction and PCR.
• Running KingFisher Flex, Accufill, VeritiPro, QuantStudio 12K and 5.
• Performing accurate manual and electronic pipetting of small sample volumes.
• Adhere to laboratory’s quality control policies, quality control activities and SOP’s.
• Review all SOP’s and workflow updates in a timely manner and ensure all SOP updates are implemented in real time for workflow processes.
• Perform preventive maintenance checks and decontamination of equipment and workspaces.
• Facilitate and ensure appropriate individual work output is completed based on current company metrics.
• Identify problems that may adversely affect testing performance or reporting of test results by immediately notifying the General Supervisor and/or Technical Supervisor.
• Participate in processing proficiency testing samples, as applicable.
• Responsible for staying informed of all incident reports and compliance related issues by attending all team meetings.
• Ability to perform basic accession in pre-analytical operations: requirements for Patient Identifiers (PID), auditing and communicating client manifest issues, identifying specimens categorized as non-compliant, acceptance/rejection of patient specimens, and creating cases for exceptions and sent out orders.

Qualifications:

• 1 or more year of high complexity clinical laboratory experience required to work in the state of Kentucky.
• Broad understanding of sterile technique, contamination control, and unidirectional workflow necessary for a PCR lab.
• Prior knowledge of molecular laboratory techniques and processes, including but not limited to micropipette.
• Baic understanding of instrument maintenance and troubleshooting.
• ASCP, AMT, or other organizations preferred unless required by the state in which the laboratory is located.

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