at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Job Opening Id: 50203
Department: MED-Transplant Center
Salary/Grade: NEX/14
Target hiring range for this position will be between $56,000 to $62,000 per year; $26.81- $ 29.69 per hour. Offered salary will be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.
Job Summary:
This position performs high complexity clinical lab procedures in support of the NMH and LCH transplant centers. The procedures are molecular based tissue typing, flow cytometric and solid phase
antibody testing and crossmatch, and immunoassays.
Follows appropriate protocols, policies, regulations, Good Clinical and Good Laboratory Practices.
Please note:
This position will require some on-call and overtime.
This position requires some on-call work on the weekends.
Employee will require access to NM/Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Lurie Children’s Hospital.
Employee affiliation to NM requires yearly influenza vaccination documentation submission or proof of accommodation/ religious/medical exemption.
Specific Responsibilities:
Technical
- Performs, analyzes, and interprets clinical histocompatibility tests. Completes all aspects of the HLA histocompatibility procedures performed in the CLIA and ASHI certified Transplant Immunology Laboratory. All tests are used to help determine compatibility of donor and recipient pairs.
- Maintains and ensures quality of laboratory instrumentation and reagents.
- Manages clinical lab data and generate reports.
- Completes daily general lab maintenance.
