Manager - Core Lab

Job Highlights:

SSM Health, we are committed to providing exceptional healthcare services to our community. As a Manager - Core Lab, you would play a crucial role in overseeing the operations of our laboratory department. Your expertise and leadership would contribute to the delivery of accurate and timely laboratory results, ensuring the highest quality of patient care.

We are looking for candidates with experience in Core Laboratory management. As the Lab Manager, you would be responsible for leading a team of laboratory professionals, ensuring that all laboratory processes and procedures are followed accurately and efficiently. You would also collaborate with other departments to ensure seamless integration of laboratory services into patient care.

At SSM Health, we prioritize the professional growth and development of our employees. We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including competitive compensation, medical and dental insurance, retirement plans, and opportunities for continuing education and career advancement.

Job Summary:

Under general direction, manage the operations of assigned area(s) by acting as a technical advisor and by managing employees. Ensures appropriate resources, sets direction and manages employee performance.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES Prioritizes the daily workflow by coordinating and delegating daily technical operations. Manages or works directly on projects of moderate to complex scope. Selects, schedules, and assigns staff, adjusting hours and shifts as necessary. Evaluates activities of assigned area(s) to ensure patient care, staff relations, and efficiency of service. Ensures compliance with QA/QC standards required by laboratory regulatory agencies. Makes recommendations regarding the development of policies, goals and objectives. Implements unit or clinic policies, goals, and objectives. Monitors department financial performance. May function in the Laboratory Director capacity during the absence of the Laboratory Director. Acts as laboratory liaison to other departments. Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner. Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of experience and education

EXPERIENCE

Five years' technical experience in a laboratory setting including two years' concurrent supervisory experience. .

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs. Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements. Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors. Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc. Frequent keyboard use/data entry. Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping. Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs. Rare climbing.

REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS 
 
State of Work Location: Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, Wisconsin 

Clinical Laboratory Scientist (CLS) - American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP)  Or  Cytotechnologist (CT) - American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP)  Or  Medical Laboratory Scientist (MLS) - American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP)  Or  Medical Technologist (MT) - American Association for Bioanalysts (AAB)  Or  Medical Technologist (MT) - American Medical Technologists (AMT)  Or  Medical Technologist (MT) - American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP)

Licenses / Certifications:

Blood Bank Technologist (BB) - American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), Chemistry Technologist (C) - American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), Clinical Laboratory Scientist (CLS) - American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), Cytogenetics Technologist (CG) - American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), Cytotechnologist (CT) - American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), Hematology Technologist (H) - American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), International Medical Laboratory Scientist (IMLS) - American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), Medical Laboratory Scientist (MLS) - American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), Medical Lab Scientist (MLS) - American Medical Technologists (AMT), Medical Technologist (MT) - American Association for Bioanalysts (AAB), Medical Technologist (MT) - American Medical Technologists (AMT), Medical Technologist (MT) - American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), Microbiology Technologist (M) - American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), Molecular Biology Technologist (MB) - American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), Specialist in Blood Banking (SBB) - American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), Specialist in Chemistry (SC) - American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), Specialist in Cytology (SCT) - American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), Specialist in Cytometry (SCYM) - American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), Specialist in Microbiology (SM) - American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), Specialist in Molecular Biology (SMB) - American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP)

Work Shift:

Day Shift (United States of America)

Job Type:

Employee

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