Kimberly Ryan Ltd (Nigeria) is recruiting for her client in the Medical Services Department to fill in the role of MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNICIANS.

Job Title: MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNICIANS

Job Location:  Lagos
 

 JOB DESCRIPTION:

• Perform phlebotomy with minimum supervision
• Organize and prioritize workload
• Manage laboratory inventory
• Perform bodily fluids testing e.g. urinalysis, total WBC count, blood grouping
• Maintain safe environment
• Maintain confidentiality of all patients and test results

CORE SKILLS:
• Maintain adequate stock balance
• Ability to enter laboratory results accurately with minimum supervision

GENERIC SKILL:

•  Ability to work under pressure
•  Result oriented
•  Teamwork
•  Customer focus

QUALIFICATION / EXPERIENCE
• A diploma or its equivalent in Medical Laboratory Technician certificate
• A minimum of 5 years post qualification work experience

Job Title: LABORATORY SCIENTISTS - Senior Supervisor I

Job Location: Lagos
 

JOB DESCRIPTION:
• Collect and identify appropriate samples
• Operate sophisticated laboratory equipment such as microscopes and cell counters
• Log data from medical tests and enter results into a patient’s medical records
• Determines calculated results, utilizing testing date by means of manual or computerized procedures
• Perform test calibrations and run quality control materials at appropriate intervals
• Conduct chemical analyses of body fluids, such as blood and urine, using microscope or automatic analyzer to detect abnormalities or diseases, and enter findings into computer.
• Set up, adjust, maintain and clean medical laboratory equipment.
• Analyze the results of tests and experiments to ensure conformity to specifications, using special mechanical and electrical devices.
• Analyze and record test data to issue reports that use charts, graphs and narratives.
• Perform medical research to further control and cure disease.
• Obtain specimens, cultivating, isolating and identifying microorganisms for analysis.
• Examine cells stained with dye to locate abnormalities.
• Collect blood or tissue samples from patients, observing principles of asepsis to obtain blood sample.
• Consult with a pathologist to determine a final diagnosis when abnormal cells are found.
• Inoculate fertilized eggs, broths, or other bacteriological media with organisms.
• Cut, stain and mount tissue samples for examination by pathologists.
• Supervise and instruct other technicians and laboratory assistants.
• Prepare standard volumetric solutions and reagents to be combined with samples, following standardized formulas or experimental procedures.

CORE SKILLS:
• Demonstrate expertise in medical lab investigations
• Demonstrate expertise in medical software application
• Knowledge of laboratory and experimental protocols and procedures.
• Knowledge of tissue culture procedures and techniques.
• Skill in record maintenance.
• Skill in both verbal and written communication.
• Ability to maintain quality, safety, and/or infection control standards.
• Ability to prepare and process laboratory samples using established protocols.
• Ability to perform a range of clinical lab tests, chemical analyses, and biological samples.
• Ability to draw intravenous and peripheral blood. 

GENERIC SKILL:
• Result oriented
• Teamwork
• Customer focus
• Analytical thinking

QUALIFICATION / EXPERIENCE
• A good degree in Medical Laboratory Science
• A higher qualification would be an advantage
• A minimum of 2 years cumulative work experience in medical service delivery, of which 1 years should be in a hospital setting

Job Title: MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENTISTS - Assistant Manager

Job Location: Lagos
 

 JOB DESCRIPTION:

• Collect and identify appropriate samples
• Operate sophisticated laboratory equipment such as microscopes and cell counters
• Log data from medical tests and enter results into a patient’s medical records
• Determines calculated results, utilizing testing date by means of manual or computerized procedures
• Perform test calibrations and run quality control materials at appropriate intervals
• Conduct chemical analyses of body fluids, such as blood and urine, using microscope or automatic analyzer to detect abnormalities or diseases, and enter findings into computer.
• Set up, adjust, maintain and clean medical laboratory equipment.
• Analyze the results of tests and experiments to ensure conformity to specifications, using special mechanical and electrical devices.
• Analyze and record test data to issue reports that use charts, graphs and narratives.
• Perform medical research to further control and cure disease.
• Obtain specimens, cultivating, isolating and identifying microorganisms for analysis.
• Examine cells stained with dye to locate abnormalities.
• Collect blood or tissue samples from patients, observing principles of asepsis to obtain blood sample.
• Consult with a pathologist to determine a final diagnosis when abnormal cells are found.
• Inoculate fertilized eggs, broths, or other bacteriological media with organisms.
• Cut, stain and mount tissue samples for examination by pathologists.
• Supervise and instruct other technicians and laboratory assistants.
• Prepare standard volumetric solutions and reagents to be combined with samples, following standardized formulas or experimental procedures.

CORE SKILLS:
• Demonstrate expertise in medical lab investigations
• Demonstrate expertise in medical software application
• Knowledge of laboratory and experimental protocols and procedures.
• Knowledge of tissue culture procedures and techniques.
• Skill in record maintenance.
• Skill in both verbal and written communication.
• Ability to maintain quality, safety, and/or infection control standards.
• Ability to prepare and process laboratory samples using established protocols.
• Ability to perform a range of clinical lab tests, chemical analyses, and biological samples.
• Ability to draw intravenous and peripheral blood. 

GENERIC SKILL:
• Result oriented
• Teamwork
• Customer focus
• Analytical thinking

QUALIFICATION / EXPERIENCE
• A good degree in Medical Laboratory Science
• A higher qualification would be an advantage
• A minimum of 5 years cumulative experience in medical service delivery, of which 3 years should be in a hospital setting.
• Membership of the Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria is mandatory for both categories.

Job Title: PHARMACY TECHNICIAN

Job Location: Lagos
 

 JOB DESCRIPTION:

• Arrange drugs received from drugs store in the dispensary store
• Monitor stocks of medicines to other units and keep them topped-up. 
• Repack drugs for dispensing.
• To compound products such as creams ointments and mixtures from raw ingredients and Prepare compounding utensils.
• Request drugs from Pharmacy store to the Pharmacy
• Deliver requisition to various units - Nursing, Physiotherapy, O & G, Ophthalmology Clinics e.t.c
• Involved in the compounding, dispensing and safe administration of medicines.

CORE SKILLS:
• Must have basic skills in drug dispensing
• Basic IT knowledge.
• Must be willing to work on shifts and weekend duties.
• Ability to write and communicate well.

GENERIC SKILL:
• Result oriented
• Strategic orientation
• Resilience
• Initiative
• Teamwork
• Customer focus

QUALIFICATION / EXPERIENCE
• A diploma or its equivalent in Pharmacy Technician certificate from a recognized institution.
• A minimum of 5 years working experience.

How To Apply:  

Qualified candidates should submit their CVs to

Medical Laboratory Technicians - labtech@kimberly-ryan.net 
Medical Laboratory Scientists - medlab@kimberly-ryan.net
Pharmacy Technicians - pharmtech@kimberly-ryan.net

Deadline: 4th March, 2015.