About This Role
This position is with Reynolds Army Health Clinic at Fort Sill, OK, and involves performing highly complex and specialized laboratory procedures. The role focuses on ensuring compliance with regulatory standards, analyzing and interpreting test results, and implementing corrective actions for technical or clerical problems.
Responsibilities
- Perform highly complex and specialized laboratory procedures
- Ensure compliance with regulatory standards including quality control, proficiency testing, competency training, and continuing education
- Analyze, interpret, and report test results
- Correlate qualitative or quantitative data with other laboratory data
- Recognize, locate, and implement corrective action to solve technical or clerical problems
Requirements
- US Citizen
- Basic Requirement A: Bachelor's or graduate/higher level degree from a regionally accredited college/university including courses in biological science, chemistry and mathematics, AND successful completion of a Medical Laboratory Scientist/Clinical Laboratory Scientist program accredited by the National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences (NAACLS) or an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education at the time the degree was obtained
- Basic Requirement B: At least a full 4-year course of study that included 12 months in a college or hospital-based medical technology program or medical technology school approved by a recognized accrediting organization. The professional medical technology curriculum may have consisted of a 1-year post-bachelor's certificate program or the last 1 or 2 years of a 4-year program of study culminating in a bachelor's in medical technology
- Basic Requirement C: A bachelor's or graduate/higher level degree from an accredited college/university that included 16 semester hours (24 quarter hours) of biological science (with one semester in microbiology), 16 semester hours (24 quarter hours) of chemistry (with one semester in organic or biochemistry), one semester (one quarter) of mathematics, AND five years of full time acceptable clinical laboratory experience in Blood Banking, Chemistry, Hematology, microbiology, Immunology and Urinalysis/Body Fluids. This combination of education and experience must have provided knowledge of the theories, principles, and practices of medical technology equivalent to that provided by the full 4-year course of study described in A or B above. All science and mathematics courses must have been acceptable for credit toward meeting the requirements for a science major at an accredited college or university. Acceptable experience is responsible professional or technician experience in a hospital laboratory, health agency, industrial medical laboratory, or pharmaceutical house or teaching, test development, or medical research program experience that provided an understanding of the methods and techniques applied in performing professional clinical laboratory work. Certification/licensure as a medical technologist (generalist) obtained through written examination by a nationally recognized credentialing agency or State licensing body is a good indication that the quality of experience is acceptable
- Exemption: Current federal employee occupying a position in the 0644 occupational series and continuously employed in this occupational series since September 27, 2017 or before
- Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes performing various assays in a clinical laboratory, and monitoring or conducting quality control procedures in a clinical laboratory (typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-07))
- Education: Master's or equivalent graduate degree or 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position, such as: medical technology, chemistry, biology, or education that is directly related to the position
- Experience or graduate education must have been in (1) the general field of medical technology (2) one of the disciplines or specialized areas of medical technology or (3) a field directly related and applicable to medical technology or the position to be filled
- Certification: Certification from the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), American Medical Technologist (AMT) or other board or registry deemed comparable by Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs (OASD(HA)) or their designee as a Medical Technologist (MT) or Medical Lab Scientist (MLS)
Important Details
- This is a Direct Hire Solicitation
- This is an open continuous announcement
- Multiple vacancies exist and may be filled from this announcement at any of the locations listed
- We accept applications on an ongoing basis; qualified applicants will be considered as vacancies become available
About the Company
This position is with Reynolds Army Health Clinic located at Fort Sill, OK.