Must currently be employed as a Medical Lab Scientist with Avera McKennan at our Main Campus, Family Health Center, or Dawley Farm, or Avera Specialty locations to be eligible to apply for this position
Join the team at Avera.
Award Winning Health Care: Avera has been named among the nation's 15 Top Health Systems, Forbes list of America's Best-in-State Employers and Level 10 Most Wired Health Care Organization by CHIME.
Culture: Be part of a multidisciplinary team built on teamwork, with compassion and the goal of Moving Health Forward for you and our patients. Work where you matter.
You Belong at Avera: Competitive pay, front-loaded PTO and options for free health insurance, sign-on bonuses, various shifts to fit your lifestyle and opportunities for career growth.
Exciting opportunity to join the Avera Blood Bank Laboratory.
Job Summary
The Medical Laboratory Scientist performs a variety of clinical laboratory tests, procedures and related duties. Utilizes scientific principles as well as technical, procedural, and problem-solving aptitudes for day-to-day laboratory technical operations, quality control, quality assurance, procedure/instrument maintenance and corrective action, test result correlation, and clinical laboratory related continuing education.
Professional Growth Opportunities:
- Lab Leadership Apprenticeship program
- Key Operator overseeing laboratory instruments
- Train in specialized lab departments:
- Blood Banking
- Microbiology
- Flow Cytometry
- Molecular
- Specials Chemistry
- Cell Therapy
Education and/or Experience
- Bachelor's Degree with completion of NAACLS accredited Medical Laboratory Scientist program, or Bachelor's Degree & one to two years of Medical Laboratory Scientist experience/training acceptable to the ASCP or AMT.
Certification, Licensure, Registration
- Certification as Medical Laboratory Scientist from the ASCP or AMT within one year of hire date
Work Schedule
- Days Shift
- 5:00am-3:30pm; 80hrs/2wks
Pay
The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.
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