Laboratory Technician
Job Description
Title: Laboratory Technician
Company Name: Medecins Sans Frontieres/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
Vacancy: 1
Job Location: Dhaka (Kamrangirchar)
Employment Status: Full-time
Educational Requirements:
∎ Diploma (Vocational) in Laboratory
∎ Essential Laboratory Technician diploma/degree.
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 1 year(s)
∎ The applicants should have experience in the following area(s):
Laboratory testing
Job Context:
∎ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization working in more than 70 countries worldwide. We deliver emergency medical care to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, healthcare exclusion and natural or manmade disasters. MSF first worked in Bangladesh in 1992.
∎ MSF stands against all forms of discrimination on whatever basis, be it of gender, age, race, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, political opinion, legal status, or any such arbitrary and false distinction.
Job Responsibilities:
∎ -Accountabilities
∎ According to medical prescription, prepare and perform clinical exams/tests with appropriate techniques and following MSF protocols and procedures. This function includes, among others:
∎ Taking blood, vaginal and urethral samples.
∎ Centrifuge blood and urine samples.
∎ Perform laboratory exams (serology, hematology, biochemistry, bacteriology or parasitological, according to context of the mission).
∎ Ensure proper reporting and registration of the sample results in order to keep a written track of activity and give information to the relevant persons, ensuring confidentiality.
∎ Take care, manage and organize efficiently the laboratory material/equipment:
∎ Apply hygiene and safety protocols, doing daily cleaning /maintenance, sterilization, washing general glassware after procedures are done.
∎ Ensuring proper sample waste disposal according to MSF protocols and highest safety standards.
∎ Supply orders, do stock, storage conditions follow-up, keep inventory.
∎ Keep organized the data collection system of laboratory results and all information generated from the analysis done.
∎ Report all relevant information linked to the activity in the laboratory to the line manager, especially the loss/robbery/damage of laboratory equipment or medicines.
∎ Performing minor maintenance and cleaning of the biomedical equipment following user manual and protocols. Alerting the supervisor in case of malfunctioning of any device
∎ -Laboratory Activities
∎ Receive patients in the laboratory waiting room
∎ Explain to the patients how to collect specimens.
∎ Register the patient in the register books and identify tests to be performed.
∎ Receive specimen and check that the labelling coincides with the information in the lab register book.
∎ Preparation of reagents and media, and cleaning slides as specified by laboratory supervisor.
∎ To maintain organized a filing system with laboratory results, stock and other files as specified by laboratory supervisor.
∎ Adequate documentation of laboratory results and reporting them to the prescribing clinician, maintain confidentiality of result.
∎ Report acute life threatening test results (hypoglycaemia,etc) or notifiable diseases (cholera, etc) immediately to the clinician.
∎ Responsible for the preparation of various laboratory reports, in liaison with laboratory supervisor.
∎ -Other Responsibilities
∎ Assisting in the assessment and evaluation of the laboratory facilities.
∎ Assist in other health care activities and emergency response activities.
Additional Requirements:
∎ Competencies: Results, teamwork, flexibility, commitment, service.
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∎ Languages: English desirable; Bangla essential.
Salary:
∎ Salary according to level [5] of the internal MSF salary grid. 2 annual leave days per month worked. Medical Reimbursement for employee and direct dependents
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Medical allowance
∎ Festival Bonus: 2
Application Deadline: 23 Dec 2020
Company Information:
∎ 9 Dec 2020
∎ Medecins Sans Frontieres/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
∎ Business : Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization working in many countries worldwide. MSF has been working in Bangladesh since 1992. MSF was awarded the prestigious `Nobel Peace Prize` in 1999 for its pioneering humanitarian activities since 1971 in several continents.
Category: NGO/Development
