Cleveland Clinic

Non-profit medical center delivering care

Medical Technologist

Diagnostics & Laboratory ProfessionalsPosted on Nov 10

Full-timeVero Beach, FL, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

An Associate’s Degree in Chemical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Biological Sciences, Medical Technology, or equivalent is required.
A Florida technologist-level license is required.
One or more licenses in Microbiology, Immunohematology, or another area are required.
The role requires turning, stooping, bending, stretching, walking, and standing, with average lifting of 10 pounds and occasional carrying of objects up to 20 pounds.
The role requires the ability to sit for short periods and file and move records, laboratory supplies, and equipment.
The role requires spoken, written, and typed communication.
The role requires finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination to operate a computer keyboard at a moderate skill level.
The role requires working at a fast pace, prioritizing multiple assignments and requests, resolving conflicts among staff, working collaboratively with the department director, physicians, and other healthcare-team members, ensuring operational efficiency, solving problems, making decisions, exercising self-control, and tolerating stress when handling multiple or conflicting demands.
Personal protective equipment is required due to potential exposure to biohazardous or infectious agents when drawing and processing specimens.
The employee must comply with Standard Precautions and use personal protective equipment as required for procedures.
Employment offers are followed by controlled-substance testing.
Employees must comply with the annual influenza prevention program by obtaining a vaccination or an approved exemption.

Responsibilities

Conduct quality laboratory testing and report results.
Ensure results are reported in compliance with department and hospital goals and standards and applicable accrediting organizations, including AHCA, CLIA, COLA, and JCAHO.
Accurately identify patient specimens and testing orders and ensure results are accurate and reported in a timely manner.
Ensure specimen integrity and identification, and resolve specimens that do not meet testing criteria.
Identify and resolve pending specimen results from the laboratory information system for assigned departments.
Report pertinent information to physicians, patient-care areas, or supervisors, including panic values, instrument malfunctions, testing delays, and reagent or supply depletion.
Record reagent opening and expiration dates, and use reagents and controls only through their expiration dates.
Maintain the cleanliness, organization, and stock of the work area.
Follow troubleshooting procedures to correct deficiencies or problems with instruments and equipment.
Ensure instruments operate reliably and results are reliable; perform assigned or required maintenance checks, startups, and shutdowns.
Answer telephone calls, greet customers, and provide consultation and technical support to physicians, phlebotomists, and nursing staff.
Follow quality-control policy and ensure controls are within acceptable limits before reporting patient results.
Document quality-control and out-of-range results appropriately.
Access medical records as reasonably necessary for laboratory testing requests, including charting and correcting laboratory results and reviewing physician orders, while protecting confidential information.

Desired Qualifications

A Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Biological Sciences, or Medical Technology is preferred.
American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) certification is preferred.
One year of clinical experience is preferred.

At Cleveland Clinic Health System, we believe in a better future for healthcare. And each of us is responsible for honoring our commitment to excellence, pushing the boundaries and transforming the patient experience, every day.

We all have the power to help, heal and change lives — beginning with our own. That’s the power of the Cleveland Clinic Health System team, and The Power of Every One.

Job Title

Medical Technologist/MLT/Lab Technician

Location

Vero Beach

Facility

Indian River Hospital

Department

Ancillary Lab-Indian River Hospital

Job Code

000830

Shift

Day/Evening/Night/Weekend

Schedule

5:30am-2:00pm

Job Summary

Job Details

*This position is eligible for a sign-on bonus of up to $10,000*

Join our team at Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital, which has been recognized as one of the top regional hospitals in South Florida. Located in sunny Florida’s Treasure Coast, Indian River is committed to providing optimal family- and community-focused care. Here, you will be part of a collaborative, compassionate and innovative team of caregivers and work with state-of-the-art technology while building a rewarding career with one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world.

As a Medical Technologist, you will perform and interpret tests at all complexity levels. Using your understanding of the theories and technical, procedural and problem-solving aspects of Laboratory Science, you will aid in the search to determine the best mode of care for patients. This position offers a rewarding opportunity to expand your knowledge through extensive hands-on experience with some of the best researchers and specialists.

We will hire our clinical laboratory testing personnel in three different job titles, based on educational background:

Medical Technologist

Med Lab Technician

Lab Technician

A caregiver in this position works days from 5:30AM – 2:00PM, including every other weekend.

A caregiver who excels in this role, will:

Conduct quality laboratory testing and result reporting.

Ensure that results are reported in compliance with the goals and standards of the department, hospital and applicable accrediting organizations (AHCA, CLIA, COLA, and JCAHO).

Accurately identify each patient specimen and testing orders and ensure results are accurate and reported in a timely manner.

Ensure specimen integrity and identification and resolve specimens not meeting testing criteria.

Identify and resolve pending specimen results from laboratory information system for assigned departments.

Report pertinent information to the physician, patient care area or supervisor (e.g., panic values, instrument malfunctions, delay in testing, reagent or supply depletion).

Note “dates opened” and “expiration dates” and use reagents and controls only to their expiration dates.

Maintain cleanliness, organization and stock of work area.

Follow troubleshooting procedures to correct deficiencies or problems as they occur with instruments and equipment.

Ensure instrument operation and results are reliable and perform maintenance checks, startups, and shutdowns as assigned or required.

Answer the telephone, greet customers and provide consult and technical support to the physicians, phlebotomists and nursing staff.

Follow quality control policy and ensure controls are within acceptable limits before patient results are reported.

Document quality control and out of range results in an appropriate manner.

Minimum qualifications for the ideal caregiver include:

Associate’s Degree in Chemical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Biological Sciences, Medical Technology or equivalent

Licensed in the State of Florida at the technologist levels

One or more of Microbiology, Immunohematology or other licenses

Preferred qualifications for the ideal caregiver include:

Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Biological Sciences and Medical Technology

American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) certification

One year of clinical experience

Physical Requirements:

This position involves turning, stooping, bending, stretching, walking and standing.
The average amount of lifting is 10 pounds with occasional carrying of objects up to 20 pounds.
Sitting for short periods of time, the ability to file, move records, laboratory supplies, and equipment are also required physical duties.
Communication by means of the spoken, written and typed word is required.
Work requires finger dexterity and eye hand coordination to operate a computer keyboard at a moderate skill level.
Mental Demands: Ability to work at a fast pace and to prioritize multiple assignments/projects and respond to numerous requests; ability to resolve conflicts among staff and to work collaboratively with department director, physicians and other members of the healthcare team; ability to ensure operational efficiency; ability to problem solve and make decisions; ability to exercise self-control and tolerate stress when dealing with multiple requests and/or conflicting demands from multiple customers.
Special Demands: Use of personal protective equipment is required as there is a potential for exposure to biohazardous or infectious agents when drawing and processing specimens.
Confidentiality: The employee has access to the entire medical record for the purpose of charting and correcting laboratory results AND review of physician orders.
The access is limited to the amount reasonably necessary to achieve the purpose of the laboratory testing request.
The disclosure or requests that occur on a routine or recurring basis include patient demographics, condition and laboratory results.

Personal Protective Equipment:

Follows Standard Precautions using personal protective equipment as required for procedures.

The policy of Cleveland Clinic Health System and its system hospitals (Cleveland Clinic Health System) is to provide equal opportunity to all of our caregivers and applicants for employment in our drug free environment. All offers of employment are followed by testing for controlled substances.

Cleveland Clinic Health System administers an influenza prevention program. You will be required to comply with this program, which will include obtaining an influenza vaccination on an annual basis or obtaining an approved exemption.

Decisions concerning employment, transfers and promotions are made upon the basis of the best qualified candidate without regard to color, race, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, status as a disabled or Vietnam era veteran or any other characteristic protected by law. Information provided on this application may be shared with any Cleveland Clinic Health System facility.

If applying for a Florida position, please see the following website for more information on the background screening requirements required by the Agency of Health Care Administration: https://info.flclearinghouse.com/

Please review the Equal Employment Opportunity poster.

Cleveland Clinic is pleased to be an equal employment opportunity employer.

About the Company

Cleveland Clinic

Non-profit medical center delivering care

Cleveland Clinic runs a nonprofit academic medical center that delivers patient care, conducts research, and educates future clinicians. It provides in-person hospital services, surgeries, and telehealth options, plus digital tools like MyChart to manage care, as well as provider tools such as DrConnect and eRadiology to coordinate care. It differentiates itself by combining clinical care, medical research, and education under a nonprofit model with a broad international network and a strong emphasis on safety and quality. Its goal is to deliver high-quality medical care while advancing medical knowledge and training clinicians to improve health outcomes for diverse populations, globally.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: Grant
Total funding: $74.7M
Headquarters: Cleveland, OH
Founded: 1921

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