Position: Senior Laboratory Technologist
Dept.: Laboratory Medicine & Genetics – Point of Care testing
Posting ID: 6896
Role Level: AT10.7 ($46.00hr to $57.99hr)
Status: Temporary Full Time (9 months)
Site: Cross Sites (Queensway Health Centre, Credit Valley Hospital, Mississauga Hospital)
Shifts: Primarily days
Posted: April 2-2026
Internal Deadline: Until fillled
Trillium Health Partners is one of Canada’s largest community-based teaching hospitals, serving the growing and diverse populations of Mississauga, West Toronto, and surrounding communities through the Credit Valley Hospital, the Mississauga Hospital, the Queensway Health Centre, the Reactivation care Centre (Church Site) and the new THP-UHN Reactivation Care Centre. Guided by our values of compassion, excellence, and courage, and through our strategic roadmap, Plan to 2030 , we are creating a new kind of health care - defined not by illness, but by the health and well-being of people and communities.
Job Description:
- Acts as the technical resource in specialty and provides ongoing expertise to ensure quality of results and adherence to regulations and standards.
- Ensures performance and submission of external quality control data and reviews results.
- Evaluates requests for new POCT programs and, in collaboration with the manager, identifies, assesses, and implements new testing technologies and methodologies aligned with best practices.
- Facilitates the validation and implementation of new instrumentation.
- Responsible for customer support and coordination of resources to support clinical programs, including identifying opportunities for process improvement and implementing improvement initiatives.
- Trains POCT operators and laboratory staff and facilitates initial and ongoing training and competency assessment.
- Function as liaison between the laboratory, vendors, and clinical staff to resolve problems and improve processes.
- Coordinates equipment troubleshooting, repair, calibration, and maintenance and communicates issues to Manager.
- Provides statistical summaries to Manager and Director regarding workload and performance indicators.
- Supports the manager in managing inventory and monitoring the budget within discipline.
- Responsible for authoring and reviewing controlled documents.
- Works in conjunction with other team members to prioritize, co-ordinate and complete area workload.
- Actively participates in continuing education to possess current knowledge and technical expertise.
- Rotates through bench work to support team for approximately 50% of scheduled shifts. Amount of bench shifts can fluctuate based on operational needs. This can include different shifts – evenings, nights.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Current C.M.L.T.O.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in a Hospital Laboratory
- Point of Care certificate or continuing education courses an asset
- Demonstrated understanding of Quality Management Systems
- Demonstrated leadership ability in a team environment.
- Strong interpersonal, organizational and communication (written and oral) skills
- Strong computer skills
- Demonstrated commitment to recent Continuing Education
- Strong, demonstrated commitment to enhancing the quality and sustainability of laboratory services including customer satisfaction.
Excellent work ethic and attendance record
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To pursue this career opportunity, please visit our website: www.trilliumhealthpartners.ca
Candidates are selected on the basis of their skill, ability, experience, and qualifications.
Where these factors are relatively equal seniority shall govern providing the successful applicant.
Trillium Health Partners’ (THP) is an equal opportunity employer who values the importance of antiracism work and is committed to integrating antiracism, diversity, equity and inclusion best practices throughout THP operations, policies and culture. Therefore, we ask that even if you do not see yourself fully reflected in every job requirement listed on this posting, we still encourage you to reach out and apply. Research has shown that candidates from underrepresented groups often only apply when they feel 100% qualified. We encourage all applicants who are members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the Ontario Human Rights Code based on race, gender identity or expression, sex, sexual orientation, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nations, Métis or Inuk/Inuit person to consider this opportunity.
In accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 and the Ontario Human Rights Code Trillium Health Partners will provide accommodations throughout the recruitment and selection process to applicants with disabilities. If selected to participate in the recruitment and selection process, please inform Human Resources of the nature of any accommodation(s) that you may require in respect of any materials or processes used to ensure your equal participation.
Our organization may use automated tools, including artificial intelligence (AI) or algorithm-assisted systems, to support the initial review of applications. These tools are used only to assist our recruiters and hiring managers; all hiring decisions include meaningful human involvement and final review.
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Trillium Health Partners is identified under the French Language Services Act.
We thank all those who apply but only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.
