Kaweah Health is a publicly owned, community healthcare organization that provides comprehensive health services to the greater Visalia area in central California. With more than 5,000 employees, Kaweah Health provides state-of-the-art medicine and high-quality preventive services in our acute care hospital, specialized health centers and clinics. Our eight-campus healthcare district has 613 beds and offers comprehensive health services across a broad continuum of care.
It takes a special person to work for Kaweah Health. We serve a region where the needs are great, which makes the rewards even greater. Every day, we care for people facing unique challenges and in need of healing. Throughout it all, our focus is to make a difference, and we do — in the health of our patients, our loved ones, and our community.
Benefits Eligible
Full-Time Benefit Eligible
Work Shift
Variable - 8 Hour or less Shift (United States of America)
Department
7500 Clinical Laboratory
Under supervision of the Section Chief, the Clinical Laboratory Scientist performs clinical
laboratory testing and assists in promoting a quality of service based on accuracy and timeliness in
reporting results.
License /Certification
Required:CA Clinical Laboratory Scientist license; or CA Public Health Microbiologist Certification (Micro only)
Experience
Preferred: Prior lab experience
Essential
Performs any tests in assigned Chemistry, Microbiology, Immunology, Immunohematology or Hematology. Performs automated and manual analysis that requires a complex network of steps and variables. Responsible to file test results in the computer.
Operates and maintains clinical laboratory instruments or equipment.
Maintains a proper inventory of reagents, controls or media. Routinely follows prescribed procedures for preparation. Evaluates and labels reagents, controls and media.
Conducts required quality control and quality improvement procedures. Continually evaluates results of quality control.
Maintains continued competence of technical skills and professional image.
Addendum (essential for specific dept)
IF ASSIGNED TO MAIN CAMPUS: Collects and prepares human samples for analysis. Performs all functions of a Laboratory Aide in the area of specialty. Prepares, stores, or transports samples. Orients and trains students and new employees. Gives lectures when requested. Provides bench instruction.
Additional
Implements new methods. Accurately performs comparison studies of precision, accuracy, linearity, cost and suitability on new or existing procedures. Documents results and reports them to the section chief according to conventional scientific formats.
Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care and services appropriate to the population served on the assigned unit or work area.
Performs other duties as assigned.
Pay Range
$43.78 -$65.67
If you want to use your talents alongside people who face each day with courage and purpose, in an environment that empowers you to do your absolute best, this is where you belong.
Top Skills
What We Do
Established in 1963, Kaweah Health is one of the area’s most progressive healthcare providers. With more than 400 physicians and 4,800 employees – more than 1,000 of which are registered nurses – Kaweah Health provides the people living and working in California’s bustling Central Valley with access to high-quality health care just minutes from home.
Kaweah Health is an eight-campus, 613-bed healthcare organization based in Visalia, California, devoted to serving central California residents. Our areas of excellence include cardiac services, orthopedics, surgical services and obstetrics. We offer an array of other services – physical therapy, cancer care, imaging, diabetes education and more to help people live healthier lives.
We offer general, specialty and sub-specialty care in a full-range of medical fields.
We offer six accredited Graduate Medical Education Programs training physicians of tomorrow in emergency medicine, family medicine, surgery, psychiatry, anesthesia and a transitional year program. We are the only level III trauma center in Tulare and Kings counties. We are the first in Tulare County to offer robotic surgery for gynecologic, urologic and general surgery procedures. We are the first hospital in California to install Artis Zeego advanced 3D imaging equipment in operating room. We are home to the most advanced endourology suite in the region with GreenLight Laser Therapy providing minimally-invasive relief for enlarged prostates.
We are the only comprehensive cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation program in the South Valley.
We are the only accredited amputation specialty program in the Central Valley and the only accredited stroke program in Tulare and Kings counties.
We have everything from a well-respected pediatric hospitalist program to nationally-recognized orthopedic and cancer programs. We offer an expansive rural health clinic system serving residents countywide.
