MT MLT Core Laboratory- Full Time, Second Shift
Status: Full Time
Shift: Second
Sign on Bonus Eligible for Experienced Candidates
About the Laboratory:
The Laboratory at Baptist Health Louisville acts as the core laboratory for the Baptist Health system performing testing for both inpatients and outpatients. This fast-paced, busy automated Laboratory has the capacity to perform a full range of tests while maintaining a short turnaround time for our patients. The Laboratory Med Techs perform testing in chemistry, hematology, blood bank, and microbiology. This is an outstanding opportunity for individuals who like a busy laboratory and an opportunity to learn and grow in the field. Newly graduated Med Tech Laboratory students are welcome to apply.
Job Duties:
The core laboratory division performs testing for chemistry, hematology, coagulation, and urinalysis. Position requires a strong attention to detail to ensure patient safety. The Med Tech uses manual and automated equipment to prepare specimens and perform analytical tests. Technologists must have strong critical thinking to recognize problems that that require additional troubleshooting or analysis. Core Laboratory Med Techs may also be cross trained in other areas of laboratory.
Knowledge, education, experience:
Bachelor degree in in Medical Laboratory Sciences or an Associate degree in Medical Laboratory Technology or equivalent required.
Must become certified within 6 months of hire.
Previous work experience in high complexity testing preferred.
Work Experience
Education
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.
Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.
Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.
Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.
Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
