The Department of Laboratory Medicine serves as a regional resource for clinical laboratory services required for patient care, research, and educational programs in laboratory medicine. The department now employs 1400 people who work at the award-winning University of Washington Medical Center (ranked among the top medical centers in the United States as rated by U.S. News & World Report), Harborview Medical Center (the region's only Level I Trauma center, known for innovations and excellence in trauma care and its centers of emphasis: Trauma, Burn, Neurosciences, AIDS/STD CARER, and mentally- and medically- vulnerable populations.), and many other clinical and research facilities in the area. The University of Washington (UW) is proud to be one of the nation’s premier educational and research institutions. Our people are the most important asset in our pursuit of achieving excellence in education, research, and community service. Our staff not only enjoys outstanding benefits and professional growth opportunities, but also an environment noted for diversity, community involvement, intellectual excitement, and natural beauty.
The Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology department has an outstanding opportunity for a CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNICIAN 2 (FULL-TIME, EVENING-SHIFT)

Under general supervision, the Clinical Laboratory Technician 2 assists the surgical and nursing staff by facilitating orders from and issuing blood components to all patient care areas. The CLT2 is responsible for the inventory management of all blood components ordered for HMC patients and facilitates the issuing of blood products and tracking of component orders during trauma. The CLT2 will also perform component preparation such as thawing, pooling and splitting as necessary. Is also responsible for operating equipment, performing QC and maintenance.
RESPONSIBILITIES:

Respond to Emergency, Operating Room and other clinical areas that require transfusion support with blood components

Provide customer service and communication with patient care areas and blood center. Call products orders to floor. Take verbal orders for blood products as needed.

Thaw frozen blood components to maintain inventory and support for transfusion patient

Combine/Pool/aliquot blood components if necessary

Operate laboratory equipment such as centrifuges, portable refrigerators, plasma thawers, sterile docker, refrigerator, platelet rotator and freezers.

Perform related duties as required.

Reviews and signs off on new and revised documents within specified time period.

Completes all training modules and documentation within specified time period.

Assist with training and competencies as needed.

Follows hospital and departmental policies and procedures

Participate in quality improvement process

Perform the work of a Clinical Laboratory Technician I

REQUIREMENTS:

High school graduation or equivalent AND two years of chemical, clinical, or public health laboratory experience
OR

Equivalent education/experience.

DESIRED REQUIREMENTS:

Medical Laboratory Technician
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It will be necessary to work in other departmental locations in order to meet patient service requirements, especially at Harborview Medical Center. In addition, less frequent work effort will be required at other UW School of Medicine locations (e.g., South Lake Union) and Seattle-area healthcare institutions.

Will be considered essential staff and as such will be required to report to work when scheduled despite inclement weather.

Must be able to meet with all shifts on a regular basis

This position is rotating weekends and holidays