Description
UCLA HEALTH
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Description
The Bone Marrow Transplant & Stem Cell Lab is seeking a Clinical Laboratory Scientist. In this key position, your primary duties include but are not limited to:
- Process/cryopreserve bone marrow and peripheral blood stem cells for infusion
- Prepare samples for sterility, viability, and cell count testing
- Operate blood separation instruments and hematology analyzer
- Perform quality control tasks and computations
- Document equipment maintenance and quality control
- Maintain, troubleshoot, and perform minor repairs on lab equipment
- Prepare written reports and technical summaries
- Record/review data for accuracy, completeness, and suitability
- Handle clinical trial administrative responsibilities
Salary Range:$56.54-75.34/hourly
Qualifications
Required:
- Current and valid California Clinical Laboratory Scientist License
- Must be able to work after-hours, weekends, and holidays when required (rotating on-call)
- Experience in transfusion medicine, blood separation processes, and quality control/quality assurance.
- Knowledge and experience with microbiology procedures
- Ability to use MS Office programs, including Word and Excel
- Skill in practical application of fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to be used in making reagents and in performing calculations
- Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with outside services
- Ability to work under conditions of frequent interruptions, distractions, and heavy workload while maintaining equanimity, accuracy and productivity
Preferred:
- At least two years of recent experience performing testing in a clinical laboratory
- Knowledge of hematologic malignancies, stem cell transplants, and cellular therapies
- Recent demonstrated technical competence in cellular therapy product processing
- Experience with clinical trial processing and protocols