Microbiology Technologists

Flushing Hospital Medical Center is a 293-bed, not-for-profit teaching hospital. The hospital offers a variety of services for a culturally diverse community, including Bariatric Surgical Service, Ambulatory Care Center, Women’s Health Center, Wound Care Center, and Chemical Dependence Unit. Our busy on-site full-service pharmacy provides prescription services to discharged, emergency department, and clinic patients as well as employees. The laboratory is fully computerized and boasts such technologies as voice recognition, barcoding of specimens and electronic remote reporting of results. The clinical laboratory operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We are currently seeking experienced part-time and perdiem Microbiology Technologists for immediate opportunities.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Perform basic, routine and advanced diagnostic procedures for the isolation and identification of microbial pathogens from clinical specimens.
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of techniques, principles and instrumentation, as well as the physiological conditions affecting test results.
• Evaluating new products and instrumentation and performing quality control measures.

• Performing and reporting assigned analytical tests, including high complexity tests on biological specimens.
• Performing visual inspections of specimens to determine acceptability and or identify abnormal/unusual results.

  Flushing Hospital Medical Center is a 293-bed, not-for-profit teaching hospital. The hospital offers a variety of services for a culturally diverse community, including Bariatric Surgical Service, Ambulatory Care Center, Women’s Health Center, Wound Care Center, and Chemical Dependence Unit. Our busy on-site full-service pharmacy provides prescription services to discharged, emergency department, and clinic patients as well as employees. The laboratory is fully computerized and boasts such technologies as voice recognition, barcoding of specimens and electronic remote reporting of results. The clinical laboratory operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We are currently seeking experienced part-time and perdiem Microbiology Technologists for immediate opportunities.

  RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Perform basic, routine and advanced diagnostic procedures for the isolation and identification of microbial pathogens from clinical specimens.
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of techniques, principles and instrumentation, as well as the physiological conditions affecting test results.
• Evaluating new products and instrumentation and performing quality control measures.
• Performing and reporting assigned analytical tests, including high complexity tests on biological specimens.
• Performing visual inspections of specimens to determine acceptability and or identify abnormal/unusual results.