Medical laboratory technician job description

This post includes 3 parts: duties list, job qualification and job description writing tips for Medical laboratory technician in details. A complete job description concludes Medical laboratory technician key duties/responsibilities, Medical laboratory technician job qualifications (knowledge, education, skills, abilities, experience…KSA model) and other ones such as daily tasks, key activities, key/core competencies, job functions/purpose…

I. List of Medical laboratory technician duties:

1. Technologist must be able to collect blood samples in a timely and efficient manner.
2. Technologist must be able to perform tests in Urinalysis, Hematology, and Chemistry and be able to process specimens for send-outs.
3. Technologist must be able to interact in a professional manner with patients and co-workers.
4. Technologist must follow the laboratory’s staff policies and procedures and the laboratory’s guidelines when relevant.
5. Technologist must follow federal licensing, accreditation and regulating body standards from organizations such as: CMS, JACHO, CLIA and IHS; and any other agency to which the facility is accountable.
6. Provides training and support of laboratory personnel.
7. Technologist must be able to perform maintenance and trouble-shooting on analyzers in a timely manner.
8. Technologist must be able to travel to Rock Point Clinic and provide coverage in the Laboratory when needed.
9. Technologist must function under the general supervision of the Laboratory Supervisor, the Laboratory Director or the Chief Medical Officer.

II. List of Medical laboratory technician qualifications

1.      Bachelor's Degree in medical technology or in chemistry, biology or related field with a one year clinical internship in an approved technology program or alternate career path or Associate's Degree in a chemical or biological science and either:

-     Successful completion of a NACCLS accredited MLT program, or

-     CLA (ASCP) certification, or

-     Successful completion of a 50 week U.S. Military medical laboratory training course, or

-     Possess credentials from a foreign country attesting to clinical laboratory training and experience consistent with or superior to the above requirements.

2.      Registration by the American Society of Clinical Pathologists as a Medical Laboratory Technician or N.C.A. as a Clinical Laboratory Technician is required, or grand fathered by the U.S. Military.

3.      Knowledge of: Medical laboratory techniques, prin­ciples, and instruments.

4.      CPR Certification (obtained within 6 months of start date).

5.      Demonstrates a commitment to service, organization values and professionalism through appropriate conduct and demeanor at all times

6.      Adheres to and exhibits our core values:
Reverence: Having a profound spirit of awe and respect for all creation, shaping relationships to self, to one another and to God and acknowledging that we hold in trust all that has been given to us.
Integrity: Moral wholeness, soundness, uprightness, honesty and sincerity as a basis of trustworthiness.
Compassion: Feeling with others, being one with others in their sorrows and joys, rooted in the sense of solidarity as members of the human community.
Excellence: Outstanding achievement, merit, virtue; continually surpassing standards to achieve/maintain quality.

7.      Maintains confidentiality and protects sensitive data at all times

8.      Adheres to organizational and department specific safety standards and guidelines

9.      Works collaboratively and supports efforts of team members

10.  Demonstrates exceptional customer service and interacts effectively with physicians, patients, residents, visitors, staff and the broader health care community

III. Tips to write job description

1. Too-long job description:

Looking at a too-long job description can frighten the candidates off and drive the away. A job description, no matter how important the job is, should not be included in more than 3 pages. If one focuses on too many things at a time, he shall definitely lose focus on the main items and get overwhelmed by the remaining; So, keep it concisely.

2. Too-short job description:

While too-long can be a problem, too-short is more a problem. It will ruin the meaning of the job description. A too-short one means it lacks necessary details and therefore, the candidate will not be able to understand while reading it.

3. Listing unnecessary functions or job duties:

Just classifying these into the “others” category will save you a lot of effort and space. On the other hand, the job description will become more dilute and easy to be neglected.

4. Key functions

Not listing key functions as required for the job can be a fatal mistake to a job description.

5. Grammar and spelling

Poor grammar and having spelling errors can ruin the job description, too. Never think that as you are the employer, you may have the right to make grammar or spelling errors while requires other not to. A job description with such errors is easily to be mistaken as a fake or ghost ads; as a result, the candidate will turn away from it.

6. Not specific enough:

Be specific and concise; if you don’t address the specific, then what the job description is for. It is for the candidate to understand just exactly what he needs to do or needs to have. Lacking details can confuse the candidates very well.

7. Not having the job description reviewed by others:

This is also a common mistake. One may be subject to bias, but more than one, especially with the help of those external advisor, the job description can be more perfect.

8. Using buzzwords or abbreviations:

In fact, it is not necessary at all to use such in a job description.

9. Using slang or legal words:

Just use common wording to communicate with others and don’t do anything extraordinarily.

10. Not updating the job description:

The same job may require different duties and responsibilities in different times, so, you cannot use the same job description for 2 different times.

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