Lead Medical Technologist (Clinical Lab)

Nemours is seeking a Clinical Lab Lead Medical Technologist (Generalist) to join our Nemours Children's Health team in Orlando, Florida.



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*$7,500 Sign on Bonus offered (external applicants only)

Schedule:5 - 8hr shifts with coverage flexing between evenings/nights ( 9pm - 5:30am or 10pm - 6:30am) + every other weekend

Located in Orlando, Fla., Nemours Children's Hospital is the newest addition to the Nemours integrated healthcare system.

Our 130-bed pediatric hospital also features the area's only 24-hour Emergency Department designed just for kids as well as outpatient pediatric clinics including several specialties previously unavailable in the region.

A hospital designed by families for families, Nemours Children's Hospital blends the healing power of nature with the latest in healthcare innovation to deliver world-class care to the children of Central Florida and beyond.

In keeping with our goal of bringing Nemours care into the communities we serve, we also provide specialty outpatient care in several clinics located throughout.

This position plays a key role in maintaining the quality, accuracy, and efficiency of laboratory processes, ensuring seamless workflow and team coordination during off-peak hours.


* Provide leadership and oversight for laboratory operations during evening and night shifts.

Ensure timely and accurate testing, reporting, and workflow management.

Coordinate team activities, troubleshoot technical issues, and act as the point of contact for staff support.

Collaborate with laboratory management, laboratory personnel, and departments outside of the laboratory to optimize patient care and laboratory efficiency.


* Performance of a variety of analytical procedures of moderate to high complexity, using manual and automated methods, and through a variety of clinical laboratory methodologies.

In this function, the lead must be able to perform all required calibration, quality control, statistical calculations and other process control and mathematical functions.

Associate must also be able to understand concepts such as linearity, and standard deviation, as it applies to the performance of analytical testing in a clinical laboratory.


* Routinely performs a range of clinical analysis in the molecular department by properly utilizing a variety of methodologies and instrumentation according to laboratory policies and procedures and in accordance with all regulatory agency requirements.


* Assists in the development and validation of various complex tests for implementation in the clinical pathology departments.

Helps with administrative duties including writing and maintaining procedures, completing proficiency testing, and maintaining supply inventory as needed.


* Orders, accessions, statuses, and reports results of tests performed on patient specimens, monitoring a variety of critical clinical issues, such as patient identifiers, specimen quality, order appropriateness, etc.

In this function, the l...