Supervisory Clinical Lab Scientist (Assistant Laboratory Manager)

Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional

• Serves as proxy for the Laboratory Manager during his/her absence.
• Exercise a full range of supervisory responsibilities in planning directing and assessing work of subordinate staff. Recommend appointments awards advancement and disciplinary actions.
• Adjust staffing levels or work procedures to accommodate resource allocation decisions made at the executive level.
• Develops performance standards position descriptions and functional statements and is responsible for technical and administrative management of an assigned area including budget execution.
• Serves as an alternate Contracting Officer Representative (COR) with responsibility for several PLMS contracts. Provides assistance with P&LMS budgetary functions resource usage inventory acquisition and other contracting processes.
• Serves as P&LMS liaison to affiliated universities colleges and cooperating consortiums (i.e. coordinating student rotations providing assistance with establishing and maintaining affiliation agreements and serving on advisory committees).
• Serves as P&LMS site administrator for employee training and document control platforms.
• Interacts with the Quality Manager to ensure compliance with accreditation agencies and regulatory requirements; provides assistance with process improvement activities and the overall quality management program.
• Maintains effective interdisciplinary and interprofessional relations with other services to accomplish medical center goals.

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job.
• All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
• Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
• Subject to background/security investigation.
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements ( Effective May 7 2025 drivers licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
• Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
• Complete all application requirements detailed in the Required Documents section of this announcement.

• your performance and conduct;
• the needs and interests of the agency;
• whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and
• whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.

Applicants pending the completion of educational or certification/licensure requirements may be referred and tentatively selected but may not be hired until all requirements are met.

Basic Requirements:

• United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
• Education: A bachelors degree or higher from an accredited college or university.
  • Foreign Education. To be creditable education completed outside the U.S. must be deemed at least equivalent to that gained in a conventional U.S. program by a private organization specializing in the interpretation of foreign educational credentials. Graduates of foreign baccalaureate degree programs meet the educational requirements if they meet either of the following:
    • (1) Foreign transcripts are evaluated by an acceptable evaluation agency and the degree is found to be equivalent to a NAACLS-approved U.S. clinical laboratory science degree program. OR
    • (2) The applicant submits a letter from ASCP BOC or AMT stating the individual is eligible to take the certification examination.
  • May qualify based on being covered by the Grandfathering Provision as described in the VA Qualification Standard for this occupation (only applicable to current VHA employees who are in this occupation and meet the criteria).
• Certification: Candidates must meet one of the certification options below.
  • (a) Generalist certification as an MLS given by ASCP BOC or AMT.
  • (b) Generalist certification as an MT given by ASCP BOR or AMT.
  • (c) Categorical certification or Specialist certification by ASCP or AMT.
    • NOTE: Categorical and specialist certifications are not acceptable for CLS Generalist positions or lab sections unrelated to the categorical or specialist certification held.