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Requisition No: 810425
Agency: Children and Families
Working Title: MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIST I - 60064471
Position Number: 60064471
Salary: $32,760.00 to $55,297.55 Annually
Posting Closing Date: 10/31/2024
The Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) is the state of Florida’s social services agency. The agency oversees services for child safety, fostering, adoption, domestic violence, adult protective services, refugees, homelessness, mental health, substance abuse, childcare providers, human trafficking, and public assistance. The agency’s mission is to work in partnership with local communities to protect the vulnerable, promote strong and economically self-sufficient families, and advance personal and family recovery and resiliency.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health (SAMH) Program office is recognized as the single state authority for substance abuse and mental health services. The Office of SAMH is statutorily responsible for the planning, evaluation, and implementation of a comprehensive statewide system of care for the prevention, treatment, and recovery of children and adults with serious mental illnesses or substance use disorders.
Florida State Hospital (FSH) is a mental health treatment facility owned and operated by the State of Florida and is part of the Department of Children and Families. The department’s mission is to “work in partnership with local communities to protect the vulnerable, promote strong and economically self-sufficient families, and advance personal and family recovery and resiliency.”
TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS POSITION RESPONSES TO THE QUALIFYING QUESTIONS ARE REQUIRED AND MUST BE VERIFIABLE BASED ON YOUR SUBMITTED APPLICATION.
This is a highly responsible and professional position that will serve as Medical Technologist I. This position will collaborate with each section within the state facilities and be required to use independent judgement, take initiative in carrying out duties and responsibilities and should be extraordinarily detail oriented.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities include:
- This position requires lifting, pulling, and squatting. Duties of this position require the incumbent to be knowledgeable of and utilize the principles of Total Quality Management.
- Performs venipunctures on residents/employees. Collect blood specimens correctly and accurately per physician’s orders using proper phlebotomy techniques following set schedule or special assignment. Printout barcode labels and stick on to blood collection tubes after collecting.
- Daily centrifuge and separate specimens of blood, urine, stool and microbiology cultures and arrange them for batch processing in-house or sending out to reference labs. Determines specimen requirements for send outs and prepares specimen for transportation to reference labs.
- Performs clinical laboratory testing using established clinical procedures (Florida Clinical laboratory Act 10D-41 and federal regulations under CLIA-88) with the highest professional ethics in one or more areas: Chemistry, Hematology, Urinalysis, Microbiology, Serology and Arterial Blood Gasses. All critical results are reported to a physician as soon as possible with documentation. Reports all STAT results to nurse or physician as soon as possible with documentation.
- Performs proficiency testing as required with at least 90% accuracy.
- Maintains records of expiration dates and checks usefulness of quality control materials and reagents daily and maintains sufficient inventory.
- Plots and evaluates control results seeing that they are within established ranges each day of use with documentation of corrective actions.
- Shares On-Call assignments with other Medical Technologists determined by the supervisor. Maintains communication with hospital at all times by phone or beeper. Responds to beeper within 5 minutes and reports to duty for call-back within 40 minutes of notification.
- Review completed reports from each department’s printers; check for completeness and any abnormal results that require notification.
- Answers the telephone promptly and courteously and speaks clearly and professionally. Answers telephone promptly when paged within the lab.
- Attends and participates in all scheduled meetings and in-services.
- Other related duties as required or assigned by supervisor.
- Schedule: Training period (6 months or less) 7:00 AM – 3:30 PM, Monday – Friday. Once trained, incumbent will work 7:00 AM – 3:30 PM, Monday – Friday. The applicant must be available to work every other weekend and assigned holidays, dayshift (hours negotiable).
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities required for the position:
- Knowledge of the principles of biology, chemistry, and physics.
- Knowledge of medical technology practices and procedures.
- Knowledge of the types of laboratory tests.
- Knowledge of laboratory equipment and testing procedures.
- Knowledge of chemicals and reagents.
- Knowledge of the significance of laboratory tests.
- Skill in operating laboratory and scientific equipment for conducting tests.
- Ability to communicate effectively.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Licensed as a Clinical Laboratory Technologist in the specialty area(s) (i.e., microbiology, serology, chemistry, hematology, immunohematology, biophysics, cytotechnology, or histopathological technology) for which the laboratory is registered in accordance with Florida Statute 483.
Preference will be given to applicants who have:
- Graduated from a School of Medical Technology Internship.
- One year experience as a licensed Clinical Laboratory Technologist in a hospital.
- American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) certification.
- Bachelor’s degree in Biological Science or an Associate’s degree in Biological Science.
Benefits of Working for the State of Florida:
- Health insurance
- Life insurance; $25,000 policy is free plus option to purchase additional life insurance
- Dental, vision and supplemental insurance
- Retirement plan options, including employer contributions
- Nine paid holidays and one Personal Holiday each year;
- Flexible Spending Accounts;
- Opportunities for career advancement
- Tuition waiver for public college courses
US CITIZEN REQUIREMENT Only US citizens and lawfully authorized alien workers will be hired.
SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM REGISTRATION All selected male candidates born on or after October 1, 1962, will not be eligible for hire or promotion into an authorized position unless they are registered with the Selective Service System (SSS). Verification of Selective Service registration will be conducted prior to hire.
RETIREE NOTICE If you are a retiree of the Florida Retirement System (FRS), please check with the FRS on how your current benefits will be affected if you are re-employed with the State of Florida.
BACKGROUND SCREENING It is the policy of the Florida Department of Children and Families that any applicant being considered for employment must successfully complete a State and National criminal history check as a condition of employment before beginning employment.
The State of Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer, and does not tolerate discrimination or violence in the workplace.
Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center (1-866-663-4735).
The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing.
VETERANS’ PREFERENCE. Pursuant to Chapter 295, Florida Statutes, candidates eligible for Veterans’ Preference will receive preference in employment for Career Service vacancies and are encouraged to apply.
For assistance, call the People First Service Center at (877) 562-7287 Monday - Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Eastern time.
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