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MKK Medical Diagnostic Services is your full service lab for medical testing. Our mission is to invest in improved healthcare services by providing insightful diagnostics. Our offering includes a wide range of tests, scans and assessments focused on providing safe, effective and responsive diagnosis and laboratory services.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Medical Laboratory Scientist

Location: Gwarimpa, Abuja (FCT)
Employment Type: Full-time

Duties and Responsibilities

  • Collects, processes, and handles blood and/or other biological specimens according to established procedures; instructs patients in the proper collection of samples.
  • Performs a variety of clinical laboratory tests in the areas of hematology, microbiology, immunology, clinical chemistry, and urinalysis, as assigned; conducts quantitative and qualitative chemical analyses of body fluids such as blood, urine, and spinal fluid; performs blood counts using microscope.
  • Performs quality control on test results, ensuring validity and accuracy.
  • Performs calibration and troubleshooting on testing systems and instruments to ensure adherence to established standards of accuracy.
  • Keeps records and reports on results according to established procedures.
  • Practices safety, environmental, and/or infection control methods.
  • Conducts blood tests for transfusion purposes; may draw blood from patient’s finger, ear lobe, or vein observing principles of asepsis to obtain blood samples.
  • Develops and maintains cell/tissue cultures for testing purposes, as appropriate; isolates and identifies specimens, using advanced laboratory techniques.
  • Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.

Minimum Job Requirements

  • Successful completion of at least 60 college-level credit hours including 6 semester hours of Biology and 6 semester hours of Chemistry; no experience required. Certification/Licensure: CLA (ASCP) certification, OR completion of accredited MLT program or military med lab training course, OR 3 years of acceptable clinical lab experience. OR MLT Certification.
  • Completed degree(s) from an accredited institution that are above the minimum education requirement may be substituted for experience on a year for year basis.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

  • Ability to maintain quality, safety, and/or infection control standards.
  • Ability to prepare and process laboratory samples using established protocols.
  • Ability to monitor and/or maintain quality control standards.
  • Knowledge of laboratory and experimental protocols and procedures.
  • Knowledge of tissue culture procedures and techniques.
  • Ability to utilize, calibrate, configure and/or troubleshoot laboratory testing systems and instruments.
  • Ability to isolate and identify specimens using advanced laboratory techniques and equipment.
  • Records maintenance skills.
  • Ability to perform a range of clinical laboratory tests and chemical analyses on biological samples.
  • Knowledge of related accreditation and certification requirements.
  • Ability to draw intravenous and peripheral blood.
  • Knowledge of sterile procedures.

Conditions of Employment:

  • Successful candidate must submit to post-offer, pre-employment physical examination and medical history check.
  • Must maintain certification status.
  • Must be good at blood/sample collection from patients

Kills for working in a laboratory:

  • Critical thinking
  • Investigative skills
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Teamwork skills
  • Patience
  • Attention to detail
  • Problem solving skills
  • The ability to maintain and calibrate technical equipment
  • Time management skills

Salary
N100,000 – N130,000 / month.

 

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their updated CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail

Application Deadline 17th May, 2024.


By NJ

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