Lab Technician

Job description

**Job Summary**
- Lab Technician
- Oncology Hospital
- Team of 10 Lab Technicians
- Yelahanka, Bangalore

**Responsibilities and Duties**
- Adheres to the departmental policies and procedures, objectives, quality assurance programs, safety, environmental and infection control standards.
- Ensure compliance to ISO/NABH/NABL accreditation standards and adhere to hospital policies & procedures.
- Operation of laboratory equipment
- Maintains and operates laboratory equipment
- Performs daily, weekly and monthly instrument maintenance as indicated
- Conducting the examination of quality control materials - both internal and external in Clinical Biochemistry, Microbiology and Hematology
- Reconstitution and aliquoting of quality control materials
- Processing of quality control materials
- Daily documentation of QC data
- Escalate the quality control results to authorized signatories
- Conducting the pre - examination, examination and post-examination activities on patient samples in Clinical Biochemistry, Microbiology, Clinical Pathology and Hematology
- Perform Phlebotomy and collection of appropriate specimens from patients as ordered
- Accession of samples
- Centrifuging of patient samples
- Processing of patient samples on equipment
- Inoculation of culture plates with patient samples, performing antibiotic sensitivity, staining techniques (Gram, AFB, Albert), KOH mount, India Ink preparation, Hanging drop preparation.
- Preparation of Peripheral smear, MGG staining and performs complete WBC differential count on smears
- Performs routine blood, urine and other body fluid analysis, and coagulation procedures
- Reporting of examination results on HIS
- Escalate the examination results to authorized signatories
- Timely Dispatch of examination reports
- Knowledge of patient instructions for routine tests, critical values, acceptance and rejection criteria
- Follow up of out sourced samples
- Ensuring investigations are conducted in a timely manner, as per protocol and the reports are released as per the defined Turn Around Time.
- Management of bio medical waste as per the local regulations
- Adheres to laboratory’s quality control policy and documents all quality control activities, instrument and procedural calibrations, and records proper lot no of all controls, reagents and calibrators
- Maintains proper documentation as described by the quality assurance program including accession logs, test report logs, quality control logs, temperature logs, and equipment logs.
- Coordinate with consultants, nursing/para medical & non-medical staff of the department to maintain high standard of medical care to the patients
- Attending of continuing education programs
- Pending work to be handed over (verbal, written, system) to the next shift persons

**Required Experience, Skills and Qualifications**
- DMLT / BSc MLT
- Minimum 02 yrs experience as Lab Technician in any Hospital
- Should be able to handle independently.
- Should have worked on Routine Lab Procedures.

**Experience**:

- Routine Lab: 2 years (required)

**Education**:

- Diploma (required)

Application questions
- How many years of Routine Lab experience do you have?
- What is the highest level of education you have completed?

Pay: ₹20,000.00 - ₹26,000.00 per month

Schedule:

- Rotational shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Bengaluru - 560064, Karnataka: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)

**Education**:

- Diploma (required)

**Experience**:

- total work: 2 years (required)