scientific laboratory technician
ISCO: 3141. Skills: 82. Essential: 16.
Essential skills
- apply safety procedures in laboratory
- calibrate laboratory equipment
- cryopreservation
- laboratory techniques
- maintain laboratory equipment
- mix chemicals
- operate scientific measuring equipment
- perform laboratory tests
- perform sample testing
- prepare samples for testing
- record test data
- stem cells
- test chemical samples
- use chemical analysis equipment
- wear appropriate protective gear
- work safely with chemicals
Supporting skills
- analyse blood samples
- analyse cell cultures
- analyse experimental laboratory data
- analyse samples of food and beverages
- analyse test data
- answer patients' questions
- archive healthcare users' records
- archive scientific documentation
- assist in the production of laboratory documentation
- assist scientific research
- automated analysers in the medical laboratory
- biological chemistry
- biology
- blood collection on babies
- blood donation
- blood transfusion
- blood type classification
- carry out quality control in microbiology laboratories
- check material resources
- check the received biological samples
- chemistry
- clinical biochemistry
- clinical cytology
- collect biological samples from patients
- collect samples for analysis
- communicate in healthcare
- conduct routine blood testing
- data protection
- develop scientific research protocols
- dispose medical waste
- ensure compliance with environmental legislation
- examine cell specimens microscopically
- examine samples in dermatology
- execute analytical mathematical calculations
- explain the molecular basis of a disease to patients
- fine-needle aspiration
- histopathology
- identify patients' medical records
- immunology
- interpret electromyograms
- interpret hematological test results
- interpret medical results
- label blood samples
- label samples
- life sciences
- maintain healthcare user data confidentiality
- maintain medical laboratory equipment
- manage chemical processes inspection
- manage chemical testing procedures
- manage supplies
- mathematics
- microbiology-bacteriology
- microscopic techniques
- monitor stock level
- order supplies
- paediatric phlebotomy procedures
- perform bone marrow transplant
- perform PCR covid test
- physics
- report test findings
- send samples to laboratory
- sterilise medical equipment
- techniques of blood-sampling
- transport blood samples
- virology
- work with chemicals