Medical Laboratory Technologist

Job Description

• Responsible for working extra hours depending on the load of work.
• In the absence of receptionist:
  • Responsible for greeting and guiding the patients, doctors and other visitors at the laboratory in the absence of receptionist.
  • Responsible for providing telephonic support by greeting and by providing assistance to the patients, doctors and other callers to the laboratory in regards to the services offered by the laboratory.
  • Responsible for reporting the calls and the brief history of the calls to the senior managers.
• Accountable for all technical aspects of the managing the reception desk of the laboratory facility that are related to the provision of samples and related services, even if some or all the responsibilities are delegated to other qualified staff
• Responsible for Blood extraction (2 technicians for paediatric patients) and collecting of other samples. Registering the patient samples in the LIS.
• Handling urine and stool samples of patients.
• Checking and changing sharp containers, discarding old left-over samples (blood, urine, stool, swabs).
• Cleaning and disinfecting working areas.
• Arranging and packaging of the samples to be sent to the referral laboratory.
• Organizing the stockrooms, refilling the phlebotomy rooms as per the rotational duty.
• Verify, analyse and notify the non-conformances.
• Filling the forms given by the Senior Manager for ISO or any other regulatory or accreditation purpose.
• Responsible in giving training to the new staff.
• Participating in the ‘Continuous Medical Education’ (CME) program for the laboratory technologists
• Revising the policies and procedures, and protocols required for sample collections out in the laboratory.
• Supervising the daily record of temperature of Cool boxed with samples sent to the referral laboratories
• Responsible to behave and interact with the other laboratory staff without affecting the individual dignity and maintaining professionalism.
• Organise and get approval for the duty list preparation and the leaves.