Clinical Lab Scientist (CLS) - Nights - La Jolla
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Job overview
Scripps Health is hiring a Clinical Lab Scientist for night shifts at Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla. The benefited, full-time position supports laboratory work across a broad range of clinical cases at a Level I Trauma Center. New graduates are welcome to apply. The role requires a bachelor’s degree or a degree acceptable for California laboratory licensure and an active California MTA license; recent blood bank and CLS generalist experience are preferred.
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This is a benefited, full time position working 10-hr night shifts generally from 10pm-8:45am three shifts per week and 10pm-7:45am one shift per week, on varied nights. Hours may vary as needed. Weekends and holidays are required on a rotating basis. Located at Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla. Includes $10k retention incentive for eligible new hires. More details below.
Why join Scripps Health? At Scripps Health, your ambition is empowered and your abilities are appreciated:
- Nearly a quarter of our employees have been with Scripps Health for over 10 years.
- Scripps is a Great Place to Work Certified company for 2026.
- Scripps Health has been consistently ranked as a top employer for women, millennials, diversity, and as an overall workplace by various national publications.
- Becker's Healthcare ranked Scripps Health on its 2026 list of 150 top places to work in health care.
- We have transitional and professional development programs to create a learning environment that enables you to thrive in your specific field as well as in your overall career.
- Our specialties have been nationally recognized for quality in areas such as cardiovascular care, oncology, orthopedics, geriatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, and gastroenterology.
Why join this team?
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*Make an impact at the region’s largest Level I Trauma Center.*Join the laboratory team at Scripps La Jolla, where your work directly supports fast-paced, frontline care for a diverse range of patients.
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*Experience something new every day.*As the largest and busiest hospital in the Scripps system, La Jolla offers dynamic, meaningful work across a broad variety of clinical cases.
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*Be valued as part of a supportive lab family.*Our leadership recognizes every team member as essential, fostering staff satisfaction while helping deliver the highest-quality patient care.
*This position is eligible for up to $10k in New Hire Retention Incentives and relocation up to $3k if moving from 100 miles away. *
The following are not eligible for hiring incentives:
- Internal candidates
- Rehires that left Scripps less than 3 years ago
- Candidates with less than 1 year of experience
In order to remain eligible for your retention incentive the following criteria must be met :
- Must remain in original hired FTE Status and Shift (if specified in offer letter)
- Must remain in original department/specialty
- Must remain in original Job Title
Transfers to other locations will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis and may result in forfeiting remaining incentive bonus unless specifically noted in your offer letter.
Required Education/Experience/Specialized Skills:
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Bachelor’s Degree or degree acceptable for California Laboratory Licensure
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New graduates are welcome to apply
Required Certification/Registration:
- *CDPH Licensure: *MTA (Clinical Laboratory Scientist) Licensed to perform work in all areas of the Clinical Lab
Preferred Education/Experience/Specialized Skills/Certification:
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1 years of recent Blood Bank experience
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1 years of experience as CLS Generalist
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New grads welcome to apply!
Job: *Lab
Organization: *Scripps La Jolla Hospital
Title: Clinical Lab Scientist (CLS) - Nights - La Jolla
Location: Central San Diego County-LA JOLLA-SCRIPPS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL LA JOLLA
Requisition ID: 262006039
How this job compares
Set against the 525 open Clinical Laboratory Scientist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$80–123K/yr61 salary ranges
- California median$56–76/hr114 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 160 open Clinical Laboratory Scientist jobs in California and 525 across the US. None of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Sutter Health25 open
- Kaiser Permanente24 open
- Prime Healthcare13 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience; Clinical Laboratory Scientist postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years at the median (264 postings).
- Education
- 277 of the 525 open Clinical Laboratory Scientist jobs (53%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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