Clinical Lab Scientist (Cls) - Varied - Rancho Bernardo

Scripps Health

San Diego, CA

JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$54.24–$78.66 Per Hour
SKILLS
Administrative Skills, Benchmarking, Cardiovascular, Clinical Laboratory, Gastroenterology, Geriatrics, Healthcare, Identify Issues, Laboratory, Laboratory Management, Leadership, MTA, Medical Record System, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Offer Letters, Oncology, Order Processing, Orthopedics, Patient Care, Primary Care, Quality Control, Sample/Specimen Processing, Specimen Collection, Staff Training, Team Player, Telephone Skills
LOCATION
San Diego, CA
POSTED
12 days ago

Caring for San Diegans since 1924, Scripps Clinic is San Diego's first choice for exceptional primary care and highly specialized and coordinated specialty care. Scripps Clinic offers a comprehensive range of medical and surgical services that are nationally recognized for quality, excellence and innovation. From primary to specialty care, our team-based model is designed to provide the best possible care and outcomes for you and your family. More than 900 providers and physicians provide 1.5 million patient visits a year coordinated through an integrated electronic health record.

This is a full time position with 8-hour varied shifts at the Rapid Response Lab at the Rancho Bernardo clinic. Shift hours generally are 9am-5pm, with some weekends and holidays. May float to the Oceanside clinic location. Includes $4,000 retention incentive and $3,000 relocation assistance to eligible new hires.

Join the Scripps Health team and work alongside passionate caregivers and provide patient-centered healthcare. Receive endless appreciation while you build a rewarding career with one of the most respected healthcare organizations nationwide.

Why join Scripps Health?

At Scripps Health, your ambition is empowered and your abilities are appreciated:

  • Nearly a quarter of our employees have been with Scripps Health for over 10 years.
  • Scripps is a Great Place to Work Certified company for 2025.
  • Scripps Health has been consistently ranked as a top employer for women, millennials, diversity, and as an overall workplace by various national publications.
  • Beckers Healthcare ranked Scripps Health on its 2024 list of 150 top places to work in health care.
  • We have transitional and professional development programs to create a learning environment that enables you to thrive in your specific field as well as in your overall career.
  • Our specialties have been nationally recognized for quality in areas such as cardiovascular care, oncology, orthopedics, geriatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, and gastroenterology.

Why join this team?

As a nationally recognized health system, Scripps Health is committed to providing the highest quality care to our patients. Through collaboration and innovation, our healthcare professionals lead the frontier in caring for our community. With a culture centered around teamwork, each site serves as a resource of support for each other, setting our laboratories as the benchmark for standardization. The lab team in our Oceanside and Rancho Bernardo Labs are a tight-knit, congenial and dedicated group that supports both independent and collaborative work.

Responsibilities include:

  • Working independently at their site, and must be confident in their expertise to troubleshoot and make decisions on their own. Although the work is independent, the CLS will have access to helpful resources, including their counterpart at other sites, lab assistants and leadership.
  • Responsible to the Laboratory Leadership for ensuring his/her area of responsibility meets licensure/inspection requirements at all times, that all quality control is performed, documented according to policy and procedure, and that staff is properly trained.
  • Duties include specimen collection, specimen processing, specimen testing (without supervision), assorted clerical duties, including order processing, answering telephones, and reporting results.
  • Clinical Lab Scientists oversee non licensed personnel in the lab.

The following are not eligible for hiring incentives:

  • Internal candidates
  • Rehires that left Scripps less than 3 years ago
  • Candidates with less than 1 year of experience

In order to remain eligible for your retention incentive the following criteria must be met:

  • Must remain in original hired FTE Status and Shift (if specified in offer letter)
  • Must remain in original department/specialty
  • Must remain in original Job Title
  • Transfers to other locations will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis and may result in forfeiting remaining incentive bonus unless specifically noted in your offer letter.

Required Education/Experience/Specialized Skills:

  • Bachelor's Degree or degree acceptable for California Laboratory Licensure
  • At least 2 years of clinical lab experience as a generalist

Required Certification/Registration:

  • CDPH Licensure: MTA (Clinical Laboratory Scientist) Licensed to perform work in all areas of the Clinical Lab

At Scripps Health, you will experience the pride, support and respect of an organization that has been repeatedly recognized as one of the nation's Top 100 Places to Work.

You'll be surrounded by people committed to making a difference in the lives of their patients and their teammates. So if you're open to change, go ahead and unlock your potential.

Position Pay Range: $54.24-$78.66/hour

About the Company

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Scripps Health

Change lives. Starting with yours.

At Scripps, we're interested in people who are interested in new possibilities. People who can handle the small stuff without losing sight of the big picture. Who build bridges, not walls, knowing we can do more together than we can alone.

Here, you'll be part of a team that delivers outstanding healthcare in a supportive, respectful environment that has been repeatedly recognized as one of the nation's Top 100 Places to Work.
You'll be surrounded by people committed to making a difference in the lives of their patients and their teammates.
So if you're open to change, go ahead and open the door to possibilities.

There is no better time than now to join the Scripps Health team. Our dedication to providing a superior workplace has earned us numerous accolades, including one of the "100 Best Companies to Work For" by FORTUNE Magazine, among the "Best Employers for Workers Over age 50" by AARP, and listed among the "100 Best Employers" by Working Mother Magazine among others. We realize that our employees are our most valuable asset, so we have created a culture that offers unlimited opportunities for growth and career satisfaction.

Our history of medical excellence and community-based care spans more than 80 years. We credit our tradition of health care excellence to the dedicated individuals who make up the Scripps team. World-renowned for diagnosis, treatment and management of disease, Scripps is at the forefront of medical innovation, clinical research and technology.

  • Five hospital campuses
  • Clinic locations throughout San Diego
  • More than 2,600 affiliated physicians
  • Home health care and associated support services

We're proud of the range and quality of the benefits we offer to our employees, from massage therapy and our Scripps Wellness Program to tuition reimbursement, growth opportunities and work/life resources. There's a lot more to our benefits than your typical plan.

COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Healthcare Services
FOUNDED
1924
WEBSITE
http://www.scripps.org/careers