Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center

Position Title: Consultation and Reference Lab Technician III

Specialist level opportunity available dependent on blood banking experience.  

• Competitive Sign-on Bonus 
• Relocation Assistance, where applicable.
• Day and Night shifts available 

Join our team of heroes!

Are you looking for more than a job? We are hiring technically astute and highly talented Laboratory Professionals to join our team.

Our Consultation and Reference Lab Technicians prepare special blood components and perform patient and donor tests to support over 170 hospitals and service partners across the Greater Gulf Coast area. With their dedication, we remain one of the top reference laboratories in Houston.

This laboratory position provides an opportunity for professional growth within our organization and a chance to utilize your skills to support our community.

This role is great for those who work with precision, are inquisitive, have a knack for quality and takes pride in delivering quality service to community partners and patients.

JUST FOR YOU:

• Compressed options.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package.
• Texas Medical Center location with free parking.
• Education and Career advancement.
• Mentoring for advanced certification as a Specialist in Blood Banking (SBB).
• Engaging and exciting opportunity to SAVE LIVES.

Tips to thrive in our culture:

• Embody our Core Values of Commitment, Integrity, and Respect
• Work to actively create experiences that inspire others to save lives, each and every day.
• Embrace doing it right, making connections, and creating desired experiences.
• Comply with all organizational policies and standards, including safety rules, and be willing to report actual and potential violations to the appropriate supervisor or manager.

In this role, you’ll:

• Demonstrate competency in essential functions of Tech II.
• Under the guidance of a Specialist, perform, interpret, and document moderately complex antibody identification, compatibility testing, and donor serological testing.
• Prepare consultation reports.
• Evaluate and process requests and patient samples per established guidelines.
• Record, place and fill orders for antigen-negative red blood cells.
• Monitor inventory of components.
• Prepare washed and deglycerolized RBCs.
• Perform quality control and preventative maintenance as assigned.
• Prepare reagents.
• Enter rare cell and serum samples into database.
• Adhere to department guidelines, rules, regulations and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• Complete additional duties for blood bank.

We need someone who:

• MT/MLS/BB new graduate with certification (ASCP or equivalent); or
• MT/MLS/BB from an accredited program with certification (ASCP or equivalent) plus minimum 2 years advanced and recent (within past 2 years) in a blood bank for higher salary grade.
• Certifications required at hire.

Functional titles: Specialist in Blood Banking, SBB, Technologist in Blood Banking, Blood Banking Technologist, BB, Certified Medical Laboratory Scientist, Clinical Laboratory Science, Clinical Lab Scientist, Senior Medical Laboratory Scientist, Medical Laboratory Scientist, Laboratory Scientist, Laboratory Supervisor, Medical Technologist, Blood Bank Supervisor, Sr. Medical Technologist, Senior Medical Technologist, Travel Medical Laboratory Technologist, Medical Laboratory Technician, Lead Medical Technologist, Supervisor Medical Technologist, Medical Technologist Generalist, Blood Bank, Blood Banking, Immunohematology, MT, MLS, CLS, Reference Lab Specialist, Consultation and Reference Lab Technician, Reference Lab Technician, Senior Laboratory Technical Specialist, Consultation and Reference Lab Specialist

About Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center

Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization and is accredited, licensed and inspected by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), AABB as well as local and state authorities. Serving the largest medical campus in the world, The Blood Center has grown to more than 650 employees and serves more than 170 hospitals and health care institutions in the 26-county Texas Gulf Coast, Brazos Valley and East Texas regions. As it pertains to stability, we have been in business over 40 years with no threat of mergers or acquisitions; and growing stronger as we gain more partnerships within the business community. Mission: To partner with the community to help save and sustain lives by providing a safe supply of blood, biotherapies and related services. Core Values: Commitment. Integrity. Respect.

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