Laboratory Scientist at Marie Stopes

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The core responsibility of these posts is to use your:

• initiative
• energy
• persistence
• results orientation
• drive
• integrity
• enthusiasm
• commitment to personal development

To further MSI’s partnership mission: enabling individuals to have children by choice, not chance.

Key Responsibilities:

Partnership and network building

• Encourage a commitment to accommodating clients' special needs such as flexibility of working hours.
• Maintain strict privacy and confidentiality to generate demand for MSN services.
• Have a public relations and promotional role with colleagues, NHS and the general public
• Timely collate and submit Laboratory reports to the centre team.
• Monitor monthly client numbers and income generated and in collaboration with the centre teams make appropriate recommendations to meet income to cost targets.

Laboratory Scientist roles

• Welcoming, friendly, professional and efficient atmosphere for all clients and visitor in the laboratory to ensure client satisfaction at all times.
• Maintaining laboratory equipment (including calibration) in a proper working condition and prompt report of any malfunction to the center coordinator. 
• Keep record of stock, perform forecasts and ensure reagents and other laboratory consumable do not fall below minimum level 
• Perform regular Quality control on laboratory reagents after supply and before use 
• Ensure specimen are obtained in the appropriate manner
• Provide timely and accurate result
• Ensure cervical smear specimens are stored and packaged correctly for transportation to the approved cytology/pathology laboratory
• Maintain accurate records of all tests performed and the result of such tests
• Keep abreast with and ensure that MSN complies with latest developments in laboratory testing protocol in Nigeria
• Assist to provide counselling on core MSN Clinical services in the Laboratory.
• Carry out any other lawful duties assigned by the Centre Coordinator.
• Make proper use of available information systems in MSI to facilitate service delivery & trainings

Communication and Administration

• Ensure formal communications with the various health partners are properly documented
• Follow up on all clients’ complaints relating to any of the MSN services and make recommendations.
• Able to sign off on a lab results and take responsibility when there is an error in diagnosis
• Liaise appropriately with the Council of Medical Laboratory Sciences of Nigeria and other relevant regulatory bodies during routine or periodic visits and assessments for QC standards

Agreement

Qualifications

Preferred Skills