Clinical Laboratory Scientist
UCLA Health Systems
Posted Friday, August 23, 2024
Posting ID: 18515
Los Angeles, CA
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Description
The Bone Marrow Transplant & Stem Cell Lab is seeking a Clinical Laboratory Scientist. In this key position, your primary duties include:
Job Qualifications
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The Bone Marrow Transplant & Stem Cell Lab is seeking a Clinical Laboratory Scientist. In this key position, your primary duties include:
- Process/cryopreserve bone marrow and peripheral blood stem cells for infusion
- Prepare samples for sterility, viability, and cell count testing
- Operate blood separation instruments and hematology analyzer
- Perform quality control tasks and computations
- Document equipment maintenance and quality control
- Maintain, troubleshoot, and perform minor repairs on lab equipment
- Prepare written reports and technical summaries
- Record/review data for accuracy, completeness, and suitability
- Handle clinical trial administrative responsibilities
Job Qualifications
Qualifications
Required:
- Current and valid California Clinical Laboratory Scientist License
- Must be able to work after-hours, weekends, and holidays when required (rotating on-call)
- Experience in transfusion medicine, blood separation processes, and quality control/quality assurance.
- Knowledge and experience with microbiology procedures
- Ability to use MS Office programs, including Word and Excel
- Skill in practical application of fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to be used in making reagents and in performing calculations
- Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with outside services
- Ability to work under conditions of frequent interruptions, distractions, and heavy workload while maintaining equanimity, accuracy and productivity
- At least two years of recent experience performing testing in a clinical laboratory
- Knowledge of hematologic malignancies, stem cell transplants, and cellular therapies
- Recent demonstrated technical competence in cellular therapy product processing
- Experience with clinical trial processing and protocols
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
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