Sentara Facility: Sentara Louise Obici Hospital
Physical Location: Suffolk, VA
Location Type: On-Site
Employment Status: Regular-Full time
Shift: Swing Shift
Posted Date: July 18, 2025
Sentara Obici Hospital is hiring a lab tech to work full time in the Clinical Lab.
Sign on bonus up to $20,000 for qualified candidates!
POSITION TITLE AND DUTIES: Laboratory Technologist (Multiple Openings) – Responsible for performing complex medical laboratory tests for diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease and calibrating and maintaining testing equipment, instruments, and tools. Duties include conducting chemical analysis of body fluids, including blood, urine, or spinal fluid, to determine the presence of normal or abnormal components; entering data from analysis of medical tests and clinical results into appropriate databases; analyzing laboratory findings and monitoring quality assurance to ensure the accuracy of laboratory results; identifying questionable results and escalating critical values to licensed care giver; troubleshooting instrumentation and resolving issues when they arise; utilizing and maintaining daily temperature and bench cleaning logs; and providing training to other medical laboratory workers.
MINIMUM JOB REQUIREMENTS: (1) Bachelor’s degree in medical laboratory science, biology, or a closely related field. Employer will accept foreign equivalent degrees. (2) Certification or eligibility for certification as Medical Technologist or Medical Laboratory Scientist from the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) or American Medical Technologists (AMT). (3) 36 hours per week. Work schedule is 11pm to 7:30am Monday through Friday, as well as every other weekend and rotating holidays. (4) Successful completion of drug test and criminal background check.
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