| 3. PROFILE OF SKILLS AND COMPETENCES |
General competences:
- be well informed about culture, history and the present of the Czech nation within the European and world context;
- formulate views and attitudes verbally and in writing, communicate in at least one other foreign language, use technical terminology;
- educate themselves, work in an effective way and assess impartially results;
- adapt themselves to the changing conditions of life and work, work well in a team and be responsible for assigned tasks;
- work with information, use ICT;
- use basic mathematics and the basic principles of physics and chemistry when needed;
- know the present rights and duties of employers and employees and know how to conduct a job search;
- act in an environmentally-conscious manner and in compliance with strategies for sustainability;
- apply the fundamentals of health, occupational safety, and fire prevention and safety.
Vocational competences:
- identify samples of biological material or other material under investigation, assess their quality for the requisite laboratory investigation or other purposes, ensure their processing, storage and subsequent disposal;
- operate the laboratory technology and ensure its general maintenance;
- prepare materials necessary for laboratory and diagnostic activities;
- be responsible for the correct storage of laboratory chemicals and sets and check the shelf life;
- take samples in relation to public health protection;
- ensure laboratory animals are cared for;
- ensure the receival, control and storage of medicinal preparations, handling them and that there are sufficient stocks, the receival, control and storage of health equipment and laundry, handling, sterilising and disinfecting them and that there are sufficient stocks of them;
- carry out non-invasive sampling of biological material on the basis of a doctor's findings and take venous and capillary blood samples and the basic laboratory measurements and examinations;
- carry out special laboratory investigations and investigations into biological material using radio-immunological methods (under the professional supervision of a health worker with special training in the pertinent field), whilst upholding the principles of radiation safety, take part in the introduction and assessment of new laboratory diagnostic procedures and their validation, analyse laboratory procedures from the standpoint of errors and interference, appraise limiting, complicating and interfering factors and quantify them;
- take part in the organisation of internal quality control programmes and inter-laboratory comparisons.
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