Specialist, POC Laboratory

City/State: Belleville, Illinois

Categories: Laboratory

Job Status: Full-Time

Req ID : 120090

Pay Range: $30.28 – $50.29 / hour (Salary or hourly rate is based on job qualifications and relevant work experience)

Additional Information About the Role

Specialist, POC Laboratory

Join our laboratory team as a Specialist, POC Laboratory ! In this role, you'll lead Point of Care testing education and competency programs, provide training, perform competency assessments, round at testing locations, and support POC operations across the hospital.

🕒 Schedule: Monday-Friday, 7:00 AM-3:30 PM

✅ No holiday requirements

✅ Flexible weekend coverage only as needed for training

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree

• MLS (ASCP) certification

• 2+ years of general laboratory experience

Overview

Memorial Hospital Belleville is an acute care hospital offering medical and surgical services plus critical and emergency care including Children’s at Memorial for pediatric emergency care. It provides patients a full complement of diagnostic and treatment services as well as heart and vascular care. Memorial, offering medical and surgical services plus critical care, is an accredited Chest Pain Center with PCI by the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care and is designated as an Acute Stroke Ready Hospital by the Illinois Department of Public Health. In addition, Memorial Belleville recently was accredited by the American College of Radiology as a designated Lung Cancer Screening Center. Since 2008, it has been designated as a Magnet®-recognized organization for nursing excellence by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

Memorial Hospital Shiloh , a 94-bed, all-private suite hospital was recognized with Magnet status in 2018 and provides emergency care, labor & delivery, nursery, medical and surgical services plus critical care.

The Laboratory Department provides a wide variety of assays and procedures to obtain data used in the diagnosis and treatment of most disease states to our inpatient and out patients. Services include phlebotomy, hematology, chemistry, microbiology, blood bank, point-of-care and pathology.

Preferred Qualifications

Role Purpose

Provide technical support and expertise in a specialized area of laboratory testing. Performs testing and processing of routine and complex testing on blood and other specimens as well as acts as a resource person to staff. Assumes delegated responsibilities in specific areas of the laboratory as assigned, while acting as a resource person to the staff.

Responsibilities

• Performs quality controls for all equipment and troubleshoots malfunctioning instrumentation as necessary. Assesses technical and or instrument problems, including quality control and abnormal findings, evaluate possible solutions and chooses an appropriate course of action to solve the problem.

• Operates all equipment/instrumentation in assigned areas to deliver precise, timely, and accurate laboratory results. Reports and maintains record of patient test results through the laboratory computer system accurately, meeting published turn around times for routine testing and stats.

• Coordinates with other specialists, coordinators and supervisors to schedule and assess competence of staff.

• Teaches and/or trains new and established staff members and students in routine and specialized techniques used. Participates in competency assessment of staff.

Minimum Requirements

Education

• Bachelor's Degree - Physical/Life Science/related

Experience

• 2-5 years

Supervisor Experience

• No Experience

Licenses & Certifications

• MT/MLS/HT/HT-ASCP or equiv

Preferred Requirements

Experience

• 5-10 years

Licenses & Certifications

• Cert/Lic in Area of Expertise

Benefits and Legal Statement

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At BJC we’re committed to providing you and your family with benefits and resources to help you manage your physical, emotional, social and financial well-being.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vison, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date

• Disability insurance* paid for by BJC

• Annual 4% BJC Automatic Retirement Contribution

• 401(k) plan with BJC match

• Tuition Assistance available on first day

• BJC Institute for Learning and Development

• Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

• Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays and personal time

• Adoption assistance

To learn more, go to our Benefits Summary (https://assets.jibecdn.com/prod/bjc/0.0.331/assets/2026%20Benefits%20Summary\_Final.pdf) .

*Not all benefits apply to all jobs

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this position. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Equal Opportunity Employer