Biomedical Scientist
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- Assist with the teaching and development of staff currently in the department; to maintain at all times the required high standards and quality.
- Accepts direction and instructions from the Laboratory Management Team
- Responsible for the quality and timelines of technical procedures, as well as their compliance with applicable company, CAP, and local regulatory agency testing requirements.
- Perform technical assignments and testing and issue reports in accordance with written procedures. These should be processed within agreed turnaround times.
- Enters and releases required information in the LIS, such as test results, comments, and quality control results in a timely manner with compliance to all regulatory requirements.
- Adheres to written internal and external quality control procedures in order to ensure the quality of the results and maintain Corrective action logs as appropriate.
- Consults with laboratory management staff prior to reporting grossly abnormal results and when OUT OF CONTROL test runs are encountered.
- Responsible for the preparation quality control documentation, instrument and equipment maintenance documentation, performance of proficiency testing and compliance with all appropriate regulatory procedures and quality requirements in testing area.
- Responsible for ensuring that reagents are maintained, prepared, stored and used in a manner suitable for testing and documentation is kept to ensure adequate records are available in test area.
- Performs the maintenance, calibration and validation of the instruments/assays assigned to the section according to written laboratory procedures.
- Responsible for maintaining all paperwork and ensuring all records are kept up to date and stored safely as per standard operating procedures
- Assists with responding to queries and quality issues, and participates in root cause analysis investigations as directed by laboratory management team.
- Assists with the evaluation and validation of new procedures as required.
- Assists in maintaining temperature monitoring system as required.
- Reports to and is responsible to Supervisor/Manager for daily operation and evaluation of work performance.
- Participates in required Continuous Professional Education Programs, including conferences, internal journal club and lectures, as required.
- To carry out specific tasks relevant to the general running of the laboratory as assigned by the Management team.
- Provides mentorship for training of: Technicians I & II/BMS I & II and Lab Assistants
- A minimum of 1 year experience successfully performing as a Technologists
- in depth proven experience successfully performing as a Technologist or a significant proven experience supporting development activities.
- Compliance with all health and safety legislation and awareness of employee responsibilities in this context. Basic knowledge of immunization requirements for the role of occupational health professions.
- Basic working knowledge of and Compliance with all CAP and local agency regulatory requirements.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
- Fluency in English both written and oral.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks with good organization skills and good attention to detail.
- Ability to work as part of, and set the example of performance standards for a team.
- Ability to work in conformance with standard operating procedure and conditions with a systematic approach to tasks committed to seeing things through to completion.
- Demonstrated ability to keep accurate, legible records and recognize the need to handle these records and all other information in line with GCP/GLP/GDP.
- Familiar with the operation of laboratory equipment with a demonstrated ability to check that equipment is functioning within its specifications and to respond appropriately to abnormalities.
- Understands the basic principles of quality control, quality assurance and quality audits and outcomes.
- Customer Focused –providing timely, confident, reliable and friendly service to all our internal and external customers and inspiring the team to follow your example.
- Demonstrates a high level of personal integrity and ethical behaviour with a responsible and mature approach to work duties.
- Action oriented demonstrating the ability to handle work load demands resulting in the generation of large amounts of data and to trouble shoot issues timely when required.
- Creative and enthusiastic with the ability to suggest and assists in implementing process improvement initiatives.
- Ability to confidently interact with all levels in the organization and provide senior management with valued feedback.
- Basic working knowledge of LIMS with the desire to achieve the mathematical, computational and instrumentation skills necessary to work and progress in Biomedical Science.
- *An alternative combination of experience, education, and training determined by management to be equivalent to the foregoing.
- Bachelors’ degree in Medical Technology or equivalent. OR
- A Medical Laboratory Technician's diploma in Biomedical Science a significant component of which involved the study of Chemistry, Haematology, Immunology, and/or Infectious Diseases. OR
- A BSc degree in Medical Laboratory Science/Biomedical Science majoring in Chemistry, Haematology, Immunology, and/or Infectious Diseases. OR
- A degree in Biological Science equivalent* with relevant experien ce in the field.
- A postgraduate qualification such as FIBMS/FAMLS/ASCP or MSc while highly desirable is not essential.
- An alternative combination of experience, education, and training determined by management to be equivalent to the foregoing
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