About this role
Job Summary
About the Position
This position is located at General Leonard Wood Community Hospital in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. This is a Direct Hire Solicitation. A recruitment or relocation incentive may be authorized. Salary negotiation may be available for those candidates who are new to Federal service.
Qualifications
Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.
Additional information about transcripts is in this document. Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes performing blood screenings and preparing specimens for testing. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-04). OR Education: Four year course of study leading to a bachelor's degree with a major study or at least 24 semester hours in subjects directly related to the position, such as, Chemistry, Hematology, Microbiology, or Medical/Clinical Laboratory Science. OR Combination of
Education and Experience
A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide your semester hours of education beyond two years (total semester hours minus 60) by 60. Add the two percentages.
Major Duties
- Perform a wide variety of blood donor collection procedures to include donor registration, medical interviews, vitals, bag issue, card reviews donor phlebotomy and training in all sections for both in-house and mobile site blood drives.
- Input blood donor demographics as well as blood product information, and test results into the automated system.
- Receive, input, and verify testing results from outside laboratories for all required donor testing.
- Report inventory needs to the supply tech or supervisor to ensure continuous operations.
- Utilize prescribed calibrators, reagents and controls as stated in the manufacturer guidelines and standard operating procedures.
- Under the direction of the supervisor, assist and perform quality control procedures, correlations and validations.