Medical Laboratory Specialist
2 days ago
Duke University Health System is a world-renowned healthcare organization dedicated to providing exceptional patient care, advancing medical research, and educating the next generation of healthcare professionals.
Job SummaryWe are seeking a highly skilled Medical Laboratory Scientist to join our team in the Clinical Pediatric Lab at Duke University Hospital. As a Medical Laboratory Scientist, you will play a critical role in ensuring the accuracy and reliability of laboratory test results, which are essential for diagnosing and treating diseases.
Key Responsibilities- Perform a variety of routine and complex technical tasks in the performance of laboratory tests to obtain data for use in the diagnosis and treatment of disease.
- Supervise, coordinate, and perform a variety of highly complex technical tasks in a variety of specialized laboratories.
- Coordinate and participate in specialized laboratory procedures requiring advanced skill and theoretical knowledge.
- Supervise and ensure the timely processing of patient samples or perform processing as needed based on staffing levels using appropriate identification techniques and written procedures to ensure quality material for testing.
- Provide advanced problem-solving, troubleshooting, interpretation, and consultation, verification of specimen quality and test results.
- Oversee the maintenance of inventory.
- Lead, coordinate, and/or perform in the development and validation of clinical assays to include performance, analysis, and written documentation of findings.
- Maintain appropriate documentation of initial and ongoing validations in compliance with internal and external regulatory agencies.
- Make recommendations for new equipment, set up, evaluate, and operate new equipment required for specific laboratory tests, and assume adequate responsibility to maintain operations, including validation of instrumentation, standard operating procedures, and schedule for preventative maintenance.
- Supervise, coordinate, and participate in lab inspections; Interpret accrediting agencies' standards or guidelines and translate requirements into departmental operation policies and procedures.
- Coordinate, oversee, and perform proficiency testing as directed to maintain compliance with regulatory agencies.
- Develop and oversee quality control and quality assurance procedures and programs to ensure compliance with internal and external regulations.
- Assure remedial action is taken and documented whenever test systems deviate from established performance specifications.
- Ensure all written procedures and policies are current and have been reviewed by supervisor or manager.
- Collaborate with management team to initiate projects and develop action plans to improve unit performance through a Process Improvement (PI) project.
- Make recommendations for plans to improve unit performance through a process improvement project.
- Maintain compliance with all safety training.
- May prepare lab meeting agendas.
- Review staff safety and compliance training to ensure completion.
- Oversee and coordinate competency assessment of staff.
- Conduct competency testing of personnel as assigned by management.
- Comply with competency testing for the laboratory staff.
- Oversee training of new staff.
- Ensure documentation of training is complete.
- Develop and institute laboratory training programs including documentation.
- Provide technical guidance and instruction to students, interns, residents, staff, and other employees.
- Plan and schedule work for the group ensuring proper distribution of assignments and adequate staffing, and resources for subsequent performance of duties.
- Recommend space, equipment, and other resources as needed to meet patient needs.
- Use behaviors that support the achievement of balanced scorecard targets and support DUHS values.
- Ensure cooperation and effective communication amongst staff regarding workflow.
- Bachelors of Science/Bachelor of Arts in Chemical, Physical, Biological or Clinical Laboratory Science; or Medical Technology.
- Generalist certification required for General labs. Generalist/Specialty certification required for specialty labs.
- Minimum educational or experience requirements may be modified on a case-by-case basis at the discretion of the CLIA director as long as minimal CLIA requirements are met by the employee for the tasks being performed.
- Five years (including one year at Duke) with generalist/specialty certification in a specialty laboratory.
- Certification will vary depending on laboratory. Master in Science in lieu of certification for Biochemical Genetics Laboratory.
- Ability to make independent decisions on matters of significance, free from immediate direction, within the scope of their responsibilities.
Duke University Health System is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.
Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas—an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes.
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