Medical Laboratory Technician / Scientist

Role Summary

Provide reliable point-of-care and laboratory diagnostic support for Excel Health’s clinic, home-care and community health services, ensuring accurate sample collection, testing, documentation and escalation of abnormal results.

Key Responsibilities

• Collect and process appropriate clinical samples.
• Conduct authorised point-of-care and laboratory investigations.
• Support home-based sample collection where required.
• Maintain accurate patient and laboratory records.
• Ensure correct sample identification, labelling, storage and transportation.
• Perform equipment checks, quality-control procedures and maintenance.
• Identify and promptly escalate critical or abnormal results.
• Maintain appropriate stock levels for laboratory consumables.
• Follow infection prevention, waste management and biosafety procedures.
• Support community screening and corporate wellness programmes.
• Collaborate with doctors, nurses and pharmacists.

Requirements

• Appropriate Nigerian professional qualification and current registration/licence for the scope of practice.
• Relevant practical laboratory experience.
• Experience with point-of-care testing highly desirable.
• Strong phlebotomy/sample-collection skills where within professional scope.
• Good understanding of quality assurance and laboratory safety.
• Digital literacy and accurate record keeping.
• Ability to work independently while recognising escalation boundaries.

Clinical Competencies

• Sample collection and handling.
• Point-of-care testing.
• Quality control.
• Infection prevention and control.
• Equipment maintenance.
• Result documentation.
• Critical-result escalation.
• Clinical waste management and biosafety.

KPI Expectations

• Sample identification accuracy ≥ 98%.
• Timely turnaround of tests within defined service standards.
• 100% escalation of identified critical results according to protocol.
• Compliance with internal and external quality-control requirements.
• Minimal avoidable rejected/contaminated samples.
• Accurate documentation.
• Patient satisfaction ≥ 85%.
• Appropriate stock management.

Salary & Development

I would advertise this as “Competitive salary based on qualification, experience and scope of practice” rather than publishing a figure until you have benchmarked whether you are recruiting a Medical Laboratory Technician or Medical Laboratory Scientist—the regulatory scope and market expectations can differ.

Benefits can include:

• Competitive salary.
• Performance-based review.
• Professional development opportunities.
• Training in digital health and point-of-care diagnostics.
• Opportunity to grow into Senior Laboratory/Diagnostics Lead as Excel Health expands.
• Participation in community and corporate screening programmes.