Medical Laboratory Scientist at Tosema Diagnostic Laboratory

Details:

The medical Laboratory scientist ensures all tests and procedures are performed in accordance to MLSCN and international standards. Clerks patients for Laboratory investigations, interprets results, and carries out weekly control for reagents. He/she Carries out research and leads us in more advanced and easy procedure in running some tests and provides standard operating procedures for such tests and performs other more technical tests

Responsibilities and Duties

• Ensuring all work is done precisely,  accurately and on time  in accordance to set standards
• Carrying out routine chemistry investigations
• Performance of weekly control on test kits such as antisera, widal kit etc.
• Daily reading of culture and sensitivity plates confirming organisms with queried identity including mycology
• Clerking of patients for lab investigations, result interpretations and any other challenges that may arise as well as advice on possible chemotherapy
• Preparation of susceptibility disc on battries of antibiotics
• Guide Laboratory Technicians on their job and provide on the job training for them
• Routine Training and assessment of Industrial training students and other trainees
• Endorsing of results before they go out
• Leading the lab in the latest advancement in the field
• Creating of Standard operating Procedure or bench reference or work station task assignment and performing of the tests; culture and sensitivity, direct and indirect coombs test, csf analysis, CR protein, urine protein/creatinine ratio, urine protein dilution, semen analysis, bleeding and clothing time, Glucose tolerance tests, skin scapping for KOH and culture, mantoux tests, antistreptomycin O, etc

Any other Job that may be assigned as the need arises

Qualifications, skills and competencies

• Licensed Medical Laboratory Scientist with at least one year working experience
• Good supervisory skill and attention to detail
• Good inter personal relations
• Self-motivated  with a willingness to work and learn
• Resourceful able to improvise and create solutions to problems
• Basic Computer skills and knowledge
• Basic communication skills (especially Listening)