Laboratory Technician at Medecins Sans Frontieres

Responsibilities

• According to medical prescription, preparing and performing clinical exams/tests with appropriate techniques and following MSF protocols and procedures.

This function includes, among others:

• Taking blood, vaginal and urethral samples.
• Centrifuging blood and urine samples.
• Performing laboratory exams (serology, haematology, biochemistry, bacteriology or parasitological, according to context of the mission).
• Ensuring proper reporting and registration of the sample results to keep a written track of activity and give information to the relevant persons, ensuring confidentiality.
• Taking care, manage and organize efficiently the laboratory material/equipment:
• Perform cleaning and minor maintenance for biomedical equipment used. Following the user manual and protocols and alert supervisor in case of malfunctioning
• Applying hygiene and safety protocols, doing daily cleaning /maintenance, sterilization, washing general glassware after procedures are done.
• Ensuring proper sample waste disposal according to MSF protocols and highest safety standards.
• Supplying orders, do stock, storage conditions follow-up, keep inventory.
• Keeping organized the data collection system of laboratory results, and all information generated from the analysis done.
• Reporting all relevant information linked to the activity in the laboratory to the line manager, especially the loss/robbery/damage of laboratory equipment or medicines.
• Performing minor maintenance and cleaning of the biomedical equipment following user manual and protocols. Alerting the supervisor in case of malfunctioning of any device.
• Spot check biochemistry machine.
• Ensure the quality of the received sample
• Operating the Spotchem analyzer
• Performing daily calibration and quality control.
• Reagent preparation and management
• Routine maintenance,
• Troubleshooting basic technical faults.
• Ensuring result accuracy and reliability.
• Participating in blood transfusion activity
• Participating in recruitment process of blood donors
• Conducting Transfusion Transmissible Infections(TTIs) screening of the potential blood donors
• Bleeding the qualified blood donors
• Crossmatching blood samples before taking the blood units to the wards
• Ensuring that blood is kept in cold chain from the blood bank to the ward to maintain its therapeutic viability
• Maintaining blood stock status at the blood bank in collaboration with the laboratory supervisor
• Assisting the laboratory supervisor in organizing blood drives
• Working collaboratively with the unit staff to trace patients’ relatives to come and replace blood
• Doing quality controls on the Point Of Care (POC) devices used by the unit staff
• Hemocue devices
• Glucometer devices
• Carrying out preventive maintenance on laboratory equipment
• Hemocue
• Centrifuge
• Microscope
• Full Blood Count (FBC) machine
• Working collaboratively with the pharmacy in stock management of laboratory consumables
• Participating in proper waste management of the laboratory wastes by following waste segregation protocols
• Participating in laboratory data collection
• Plus any other duties as may be assigned from time to time.

Requirements

• Candidates should possess a Bachelor’s Degree in Medical Laboratory Sciences / Radiography with 3 - 5 years of relevant work experience.