Clinical Lab Scientist (CLS) - Per Diem - Varied - Oceanside/Rancho Bernardo Clinics

This is a casual/per diem position with varied shifts to float between the Rapid Response Labs at the Oceanside and Rancho Bernardo clinics. Shift hours generally are 7am-3:30pm or 12pm-8:30pm on variable days, including weekdays, weekends and holidays on an as-needed basis.

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.

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