Medical Technologist

About the Role

Frankfort Regional Medical Center is seeking a Medical Technologist to join their team.

Key Responsibilities

• Collects and prepares specimens.
• Performs laboratory procedures used in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.
• Verifies, records, and reports lab results accurately and in a timely manner.
• Ensures compliance with regulatory requirements, hospital policies, and laboratory procedures.
• Maintains cleanliness of equipment, instruments, and work area.
• Possesses extensive knowledge of the physiology and function of the normal human body, and the changes in the body from disease relevant to assigned testing sections.
• Follows laboratory procedures for specimen handling and processing, test analyses, reporting, and maintaining records.
• Performs only those tests authorized by the Laboratory Director based on commensurate skill, education, training, experience, and technical abilities.
• Evaluates test results according to predefined criteria.
• Reports, enters, and verifies test results in the Laboratory Information System.
• Identifies problems that may adversely affect test performance or reporting and corrects them or immediately notifies the appropriate personnel.
• Documents all corrective actions taken when systems deviate from established performance specifications.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college/university in a chemical/physical/biological or other life science and relevant generalist clinical laboratory experience within the last five years.
• OR Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college/university in laboratory medical technology, with clinical rotation.
• National Registration as an MLS(ASCP)cm, MT(ASCP) or equivalent (e.g., AMT, AAB, HEW), or registry-eligible at date of hire.
• If not held at date of hire, national certification must be obtained within the first six months of employment.
• Interpersonal skills to successfully interact with all staff, patients, patient families, and vendors.

Benefits

Frankfort Regional Medical Center offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career, and retirement of colleagues, including:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health, and telemedicine services.
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services.
• Time away from work programs (paid time off, paid family leave, disability coverage, leaves of absence).
• Savings and retirement resources (401(k) Plan with match, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support, financial wellbeing counseling).
• Education support (tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships, partnership with Galen College of Nursing).
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection, and consumer discounts.

Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.