Job Details: Technical Coordinator- Lab Services

Company: HealthONE Swedish Medical Center – Take your career to Swedish. Located in Englewood, Colorado, Swedish Medical Center provides a wide array of healthcare services for adults and children. Swedish features a Level 1 Trauma center and is a recognized leader in stroke treatment.

Description: Located in the south-metro Denver community of Englewood, Colorado, for more than 100 years, Swedish is the provider of choice for a wide array of health-care services.
At Swedish, our mission is to provide compassionate, high-quality patient care that meets the caring and cost-effective expectations of our patients, physicians, employees and volunteers, and to preserve and strengthen the Swedish tradition of community service

Supervises the overall operation of the Specimen Center. Responsible for organizing workflow throughout the Specimen Center. Able to handle technical and customer relation problems. Maintains proficiency in performance of technical procedures, including venipuncture, capillary puncture and bleeding times on pediatric and adult patients. Collects and processes specimens on patients of all ages as required. Performs test requests and charts results on patients with many different clinical conditions (from screening of healthy outpatients up to and including the major, complex intensive care patients) and all age ranges from newborns to geriatric patients. Assists in the clerical duties of the department. Performs required function verification of equipment. Communicates with other allied health care professionals and patients according to job requirements.

Qualifications
A. Licensure/Certification/Registration:
MT(ASCP) registered or eligible or equivalent.
B. Education:
BS degree in related sciences preferred.
C. Experience:
Prefer 1 - 2 years of clinical laboratory experience plus 1 - 2 years of supervisory experience.
D. Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
Must have effective management skills to supervise personnel with varied and different backgrounds. Must have effective verbal and written communication skills in order to communicate in a clear concise manner with coworkers, physicians, nursing staff and patients. Must have analytical skills for the measurement of clinical analysis, a high level of mechanical ability with instrumentation, the ability to make independent decisions and a working knowledge of laboratory computers and instrumentation.


Swedish Medical Center is part of HealthONE, the largest healthcare system in the Denver metro area consisting of 7 hospitals and more than 30 outpatient centers, including some of the regions most respected healthcare facilities, services and programs. HealthONE is committed to providing compassionate quality healthcare.

By working and living in Colorado, you can enjoy over 300 days of sunshine per year and less than 15' of precipitation annually. The average high temperature in the winter is nearly 50 degrees -- in the summer, only 85.

Such great weather means you can spend time skiing, hiking, biking, or camping. If you tire of life outdoors, you can attend live theatre and concerts, visit art and history museums, or go to an aquarium or the zoo. Or enjoy sporting pastimes with Colorado's four major league franchises. Cheer on the Rockies during baseball games, the Avalanche during hockey, the Broncos in football games and the Nuggets in basketball. Work where you love to live!
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Posting Date: Feb 1 08