Medical Laboratory Scientist (LT or MLT) (Non-Certified)

$20.50 - $29.75This position performs a variety of laboratory procedures used to diagnose and treat patients, according to established and approved protocols. Tests are performed with the technical supervision of a clinical laboratory scientist/medical technologist, manager, or laboratory director.

Position Specifics:
o Department: Laboratory
o Core Function: Laboratory
o Schedule: Full time, 40 hrs/wk, Nights, Week 1: 3 x 12.5-hour shifts, Week 2: 4 x 12.5- hour shifts
o Facility: Shelbyville – Good Shephard Hospital
o Location: Shelbyville, IL
Compensation that aligns with your experience

• Bachelor’s degree in chemical, physical or biological sciences is required or equivalent education and training per CLIA standards. 

• Must have completed 24 semester hours of science – specifically 6 semester hours in Chemistry, 6 semester hours in Biology, and 12 additional semester hours in a combination of Chemistry, Biology, or Laboratory Technology (with a preference of organic and/or biochemistry and microbiology).

• 1 year of experience in a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) accreditation laboratory or other testing laboratory such as educational, research, surveillance, food, environmental, or agriculture is preferred.

• After 1 year of full time acceptable clinical experience in specific section, may qualify to sit for Technologist specific section certification through ASCP Board of Certification (BOC) or through other eligibility for certification by a nationally recognized certifying agency such as American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), National Credentialing Agency (NCA), American Medical Technologists (AMT), Health Education & Welfare (HEW) or other laboratory certifying agency.

Job Description

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Throughout communities in Illinois and Wisconsin, 13 hospitals, numerous community-based health centers and clinics, our 13,000+ colleagues have built a culture based on our solid core values of respect, care, competence, and joy. These are the ideals we believe in, work by, and live each day.

Built upon more than 145 years of service to the communities we serve, we now look to the future and our place in it as a health care system that strives to continually improve processes, procedures, and outcomes with the latest and most advanced technologies and treatments.

Regardless of how far our passion for excellence carries us, our focus will always remain on the most important person in our entire organization: The patient.