Laboratory Technical Supervisor

Lighthouse Lab Services seeks a fulltime Laboratory Technical Supervisor for an established acute care community hospital in Chicago IL

About the Hospital: An acute care community hospital we proudly serving over 33000 patients each year. As a notforprofit patientfocused provider they go beyond treatment by promoting wellness education and a healthier future for their community. Their strong partnerships with physicians research institutions and local businesses allows them the ability to deliver compassionate exceptional care to their patients.

About the Position: Under the direction of the Administrative Laboratory Director The Laboratory Technical Supervisor assists with Technical workflows in the laboratory.

This position serves the CLIA regulated Technical Supervisor role. Responds to inquiries regarding the Medical Technologist Point of Care and Clinical Coordinator. Assists with troubleshooting and trains laboratory staff in compliance with SOPs. Performs a variety of routine and complex molecularbased diagnostic tests on various specimen types for clinical use maintaining compliance with all regulatory agency requirements. This person acts as the liaison between the managers nursing units staff patients and clinicians to ensure that the laboratory department work in cohesion with the other hospital departments and units.

Accurate clinical diagnosis is important as it affects the physicians ability to formulate initiate and monitor effective medical treatment. The quality of treatment and care rendered to hospital patients is of paramount importance. The duties performed by hospital staff in this position will demonstrate what is best for the patient as well as promote development of an awareness and cooperation reflecting the interrelationship of departments in caring comforting and healing the sick and injured.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Works as a generalist in all sections of the clinical laboratory.
• Completes the schedule and covers during shortages or in the absence of appropriate personnel.
• Works with the Clinical Coordinator to ensure that the Point of Care section meets quality and regulatory demands.
• Completes quality assurance and performance improvement of clinical staff for Lab and Point of Care.
• Initiates layout and set up the laboratory primarily dealing with highcomplexity testing.
• Maintains team cohesion mentors and delegates the responsibilities of the lab staff helping to ensure schedules are maintained.
• Participation in the quality management system management of adverse outcomes and nonconformity participation in the onsite survey appropriate management of the results of the onsite survey and performance in proficiency testing.
• Engages in continuous process and service improvement.
• Manages maintenance validation calibration technical troubleshooting and decision making.
• Ensures QC and maintenance of all laboratory equipment.
• Monitors CAP schedule rotation and compliance.
• Evaluates new process improvements and make appropriate recommendations based on thorough evaluation of technical quality and efficiency.
• Provides effective and efficient information technology support and technical direction of the laboratory.
• Ensures that policies and procedures are current for monitoring staff to assess competency and whenever necessary provide remedial training or continuing education to improve skills.
• Holds the staff accountable to technical responsibilities.
• Effectively enforces the plan of correction to deficiencies identified.
• Monitors daily weekly and monthly technical assays reports any findings to the Director.
• Covers bench assignments as needed and maintain proficiency/competency in technical operations.
• Reports all concerns of test quality and/or safety to Director.
• Ensures that supplies are ordered timely avoiding freight costs.
• Follow Laboratory Information System Validation process and Software Development methodology to build out and qualify/validate.
• As application SME work with infrastructure teams to implement and support systems such as necessary.
• Work as a team with the Laboratory Director and other staff to deploy as well as authorizing IT validation and System Administration Procedures.
• Work with infrastructure teams to assure proper backups of Lab systems are setup.
• As incidents come in work on troubleshooting and resolving issues for end users for Lab systems/applications.
• Contacting vendors as needed for troubleshooting and resolving technical issues.
• Creation of user accounts in applications as needed following administration procedures.
• Experience developing processes Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and data storage requirements to ensure compliance with regulatory guidelines.
• Oversees necessary corrective action is completed and documented for identified issues.
• Completes all other duties as assigned and instructed.

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in a chemical physical or biological science or medical technology from an accredited institution.
• At least four years of laboratory training and/or experience in high complexity testing in a core hospital lab.

Preferred Qualifications:

• MLS or MT or MLT or equivalent certification from ASCP or AMT.

SALARY SCHEDULE BENEFITS:

• First shift
• Salary commensurate with education and experience
• FullComprehensive benefits

About Us:

At Lighthouse Lab Services we offer solutions to help start grow and run clinical laboratories. Our recruiting team has more than 21 years of proven success placing job seekers in positions ranging from entrylevel Medical Technologists to seasoned Laboratory Directors. We recruit nationwide for permanent and travel positions with clients ranging from small hospitals to large reference laboratories.

It is the policy of Lighthouse Lab Services to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age color national origin citizenship status physical or mental disability race religion creed gender sex sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression genetic information marital status status with regard to public assistance veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local law. In addition Lighthouse Lab Services will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

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