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Clinical Laboratory Scientist - Multiple Specialties
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 1 days ago
About the Role
The incumbent serves as a Clinical Laboratory Scientist (CLS) within the Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Service at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center. Openings are currently available in Special Chemistry, Auto Chemistry, and Third Shift Generalist. The CLS develops, performs, evaluates, interprets, correlates, and validates the accuracy of laboratory procedures and results in line with current laboratory regulatory requirements.
What You'll Do
- →Duties and tasks include but are not limited to the following: Maintains and demonstrates knowledge of professional clinical laboratory science principles, practices, concepts, and theories that support sound, independent work.
- →Demonstrates comprehensive knowledge of laboratory quality control and quality assurance procedures and principles of performance improvement.
- →Demonstrates skill in informatics, laboratory data flow, and laboratory processes.
- →Utilizes comprehensive knowledge of laboratory equipment and maintains, troubleshoots, and repairs instrumentation and demonstrates proper documentation of corrective action.
- →Uses independent technical judgement to analyze and interpret laboratory results.
- →Reads, interprets, and applies complex written instructions.
- →Communicates, consults, and interacts with other members of the healthcare team, external relations, customer service, and patient education.
- →Evaluates the suitability of each specimen for analysis, requesting a new specimen if determined to be unusable.
- →Prepares specimen for analysis according to established procedures.
- →Ensures acceptable orders have been placed by a provider and accurately accessions and receives specimens, maintaining correct patient identification throughout each phase of processing, analysis, and resulting.
- →Selects, performs, evaluates, and monitors the performance of test procedures using manual and/or automated techniques in accordance with established protocols.
- →Recognizes and reacts to indicators of malfunction; locates and implements corrective action.
- →Conducts quality control procedures on instrumentation, equipment, reagents, and products and maintains proper records for quality control reports.
- →Performs initial quality control of all incoming reagents and supplies as required.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1 or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
Personality Fit
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Job ID: 5c969f46-fd02-432d-87c5-94dd3d9f2f04
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