Laboratory Supervisor

Job Summary:

This position is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the laboratory, ensuring compliance with regulatory agencies and implementing quality control measures. The Laboratory Supervisor will coordinate and manage the work activities of assigned section(s) and shift(s), providing guidance and support to laboratory personnel.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide day-to-day supervision of laboratory testing personnel, ensuring compliance with policies and procedures.
• Ensure accurate attendance records and maintain time and attendance records for the department.
• Assist the Director/Manager in maintaining the Laboratory budget, including monthly analysis and variance reporting.
• Develop, implement, and maintain current procedural manuals for all tests performed in the section(s) assigned.
• Enforce all safety policies and procedures, and research, evaluate, and implement new and improved procedures, methodologies, instrumentation, and techniques as assigned.
• Implement an appropriate section and/or shift-specific Quality Control Program and maintain all applicable Quality Control and Functional Verification records.
• Monitor test analyses and specimen examinations to ensure acceptable levels of analytic performance, and refer clinical problems to the laboratory director, manager, or supervisor as appropriate.
• Operate, maintain, and troubleshoot all equipment in assigned section(s), and prepare and submit routine or special administrative and technical reports by due dates as required.
• Train new technologists and technicians in assigned section(s) procedures and policies, and provide subsequent training in all new or revised procedures and techniques for assigned shift(s).
• Assist the Director/Manager in designing, implementing, collecting, and analyzing data, and reporting all phases of a comprehensive performance improvement program that involves laboratory personnel in Performance Improvement activities.
• Prepare and conduct in-service education either formally or informally for assigned section(s) and shift(s).
• Provide input on personnel for hire, fire, transfer, interview, disciplinary probation, etc., and counsel and document technical deficiencies.
• Perform skills review and competency assessments and maintain appropriate documentation on all technical personnel as delegated by the Laboratory Manager/Director.
• Oversee and enforce expectations of personnel in assigned section(s).
• Participate in proficiency testing surveys, review and evaluate results, and maintain copies of survey records in section(s).
• Coordinate and attend meetings as required to discuss changes and developments regarding policies, equipment, procedures, staffing, etc.
• Utilize and have a thorough working knowledge of the Laboratory Information System and applications thereof.
• Demonstrate competence to perform assigned patient care responsibilities in a manner that meets the population-specific and developmental needs of patients served by the department.
• Appropriately adapt assigned patient assessment, treatment, and/or care methods to accommodate the unique physical, psychosocial, cultural, age-specific, and other developmental needs of each patient served.
• Process patient specimens, including collection, handling, and distribution, always cognizant of minimal pediatric specimen volumes (when required).
• Perform all routine and complicated laboratory procedures in the primary section to which assigned about age (pedi) or sex-specific values.
• Provide notification and documentation of critical laboratory values obtained.
• Calculate, enter, and/or verify results of laboratory procedures.
• Perform all duties in a manner that protects the confidentiality of patients and does not solicit or disclose any confidential information unless it is necessary for the performance of assigned job duties.
• Keep abreast of Medical Technology, by reading Journals, texts, and technical bulletins, attending workshops and seminars, and becoming active in local professional associations.
• Demonstrate adherence to the CORE values of CHRISTUS Health.

Requirements:

Education/Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in a chemical, physical, biological, or clinical laboratory science or medical technology from a regionally accredited college/university or Education that has been evaluated by an acceptable credentialing agency and deemed equivalent to a US Bachelor's degree in a chemical, physical, biological, or clinical laboratory science or medical technology.

Experience:

• Five (5) years of experience as a Medical Technologist, Clinical Laboratory Scientist, Medical Laboratory Scientist, or Medical Laboratory Technician required.
• Five (5) years of full-time primary experience in the specific section of responsibility required.

Licenses, Registrations, or Certifications:

• Must provide proof of certification or certification eligibility for MT (ASCP), CLS (ASCP), MLS (ASCP), MT (AMT), CLS (NCA/ASCP), or MT (AAB).
• If certification with an expiration date is held, the certification must be kept current.

Work Schedule:

TBD

Work Type:

Full Time