Specialist, POC Laboratory

• Additional Information About the Role
• Specialist, POC Laboratory
• Join our laboratory team as a Specialist, POC Laboratory

! In this role, you'll lead Point of Care testing education and competency programs, provide training, perform competency assessments, round at testing locations, and support POC operations across the hospital.

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Schedule:

• Monday-Friday, 7:00 AM-3:30 PM
• ✅ No holiday requirements
• ✅ Flexible weekend coverage only as needed for training

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree
• MLS (ASCP) certification
• 2+ years of general laboratory experience
• Overview
• Memorial Hospital Belleville is an acute care hospital offering medical and surgical services plus critical and emergency care including Children’s at Memorial for pediatric emergency care. It provides patients a full complement of diagnostic and treatment services as well as heart and vascular care. Memorial, offering medical and surgical services plus critical care, is an accredited Chest Pain Center with PCI by the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care and is designated as an Acute Stroke Ready Hospital by the Illinois Department of Public Health. In addition, Memorial Belleville recently was accredited by the American College of Radiology as a designated Lung Cancer Screening Center. Since 2008, it has been designated as a Magnet®-recognized organization for nursing excellence by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
• Memorial Hospital Shiloh
• , a 94-bed, all-private suite hospital was recognized with Magnet status in 2018 and provides emergency care, labor & delivery, nursery, medical and surgical services plus critical care.
• The Laboratory Department provides a wide variety of assays and procedures to obtain data used in the diagnosis and treatment of most disease states to our inpatient and out patients.  Services include phlebotomy, hematology, chemistry, microbiology, blood bank, point-of-care and pathology.

Preferred Qualifications

• Role Purpose
• Provide technical support and expertise in a specialized area of laboratory testing. Performs testing and processing of routine and complex testing on blood and other specimens as well as acts as a resource person to staff. Assumes delegated responsibilities in specific areas of the laboratory as assigned, while acting as a resource person to the staff.

Responsibilities

• Performs quality controls for all equipment and troubleshoots malfunctioning instrumentation as necessary. Assesses technical and or instrument problems, including quality control and abnormal findings, evaluate possible solutions and chooses an appropriate course of action to solve the problem.
• Operates all equipment/instrumentation in assigned areas to deliver precise, timely, and accurate laboratory results. Reports and maintains record of patient test results through the laboratory computer system accurately, meeting published turn around times for routine testing and stats.
• Coordinates with other specialists, coordinators and supervisors to schedule and assess competence of staff.
• Teaches and/or trains new and established staff members and students in routine and specialized techniques used. Participates in competency assessment of staff.
• Minimum Requirements
• Education
• Bachelor's Degree
• Physical/Life Science/related
• Experience
• 2-5 years
• Supervisor Experience
• No Experience
• Licenses & Certifications
• MT/MLS/HT/HT-ASCP or equiv
• Preferred Requirements
• Experience
• 5-10 years
• Licenses & Certifications
• Cert/Lic in Area of Expertise

Responsibilities

• Memorial Hospital Belleville is an acute care hospital offering medical and surgical services plus critical and emergency care including Children’s at Memorial for pediatric emergency care. It provides patients a full complement of diagnostic and treatment services as well as heart and vascular care. Memorial, offering medical and surgical services plus critical care, is an accredited Chest Pain Center with PCI by the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care and is designated as an Acute Stroke Ready Hospital by the Illinois Department of Public Health. In addition, Memorial Belleville recently was accredited by the American College of Radiology as a designated Lung Cancer Screening Center. Since 2008, it has been designated as a Magnet®-recognized organization for nursing excellence by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
• Memorial Hospital Shiloh
• , a 94-bed, all-private suite hospital was recognized with Magnet status in 2018 and provides emergency care, labor & delivery, nursery, medical and surgical services plus critical care.
• The Laboratory Department provides a wide variety of assays and procedures to obtain data used in the diagnosis and treatment of most disease states to our inpatient and out patients.  Services include phlebotomy, hematology, chemistry, microbiology, blood bank, point-of-care and pathology.

Qualifications

• Role Purpose
• Provide technical support and expertise in a specialized area of laboratory testing. Performs testing and processing of routine and complex testing on blood and other specimens as well as acts as a resource person to staff. Assumes delegated responsibilities in specific areas of the laboratory as assigned, while acting as a resource person to the staff.

Responsibilities

• Performs quality controls for all equipment and troubleshoots malfunctioning instrumentation as necessary. Assesses technical and or instrument problems, including quality control and abnormal findings, evaluate possible solutions and chooses an appropriate course of action to solve the problem.
• Operates all equipment/instrumentation in assigned areas to deliver precise, timely, and accurate laboratory results. Reports and maintains record of patient test results through the laboratory computer system accurately, meeting published turn around times for routine testing and stats.
• Coordinates with other specialists, coordinators and supervisors to schedule and assess competence of staff.
• Teaches and/or trains new and established staff members and students in routine and specialized techniques used. Participates in competency assessment of staff.
• Minimum Requirements
• Education
• Bachelor's Degree
• Physical/Life Science/related
• Experience
• 2-5 years
• Supervisor Experience
• No Experience
• Licenses & Certifications
• MT/MLS/HT/HT-ASCP or equiv
• Preferred Requirements
• Experience
• 5-10 years
• Licenses & Certifications
• Cert/Lic in Area of Expertise