Laboratory Assistant

Quality Assurance Lab Coordinator

BJC HealthCare System is seeking a Full-Time Quality Assurance Lab Coordinator for Memorial Hospital Belleville, IL.

Position Details:

• Day Shift Hours: 8:00am-4:30pm (hours are flexible) - No weekends, No Holidays
• Occasional travel to other locations
• Serve as the designated quality representative in compliance with AABB/CAP and other regulatory standards
• Ensure continuous inspection readiness across all Memorial laboratories and departments
• Lead internal audits, mock inspections, and regulatory compliance activities
• Oversee nonconformance management
• Standardize document control, policy oversight, and quality processes

Skills & Experience:

• 2-5 years experience
• MLS ASCP accredited Certification
• Experience with regulatory requirements/inspections (CAP,AABB)
• 5+ years of lab experience (preferred)

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Physical/Life Sciences or related field
• 2-5 years experience

Next Steps:

• If selected to move forward with Interview Process, a Talent Advisor will contact you via email for a screen

Memorial Hospital Belleville is an acute care hospital offering medical and surgical services plus critical and emergency care including Childrens at Memorial for pediatric emergency care. It provides patients a full complement of diagnostic and treatment services as well as heart and vascular care. Memorial, offering medical and surgical services plus critical care, is an accredited Chest Pain Center with PCI by the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care and is designated as an Acute Stroke Ready Hospital by the Illinois Department of Public Health. In addition, Memorial Belleville recently was accredited by the American College of Radiology as a designated Lung Cancer Screening Center. Since 2008, it has been designated as a Magnet-recognized organization for nursing excellence by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

Memorial Hospital Shiloh, a 94-bed, all-private suite hospital was recognized with Magnet status in 2018 and provides emergency care, labor & delivery, nursery, medical and surgical services plus critical care.

The Laboratory Department provides a wide variety of assays and procedures to obtain data used in the diagnosis and treatment of most disease states to our inpatient and out patients. Services include phlebotomy, hematology, chemistry, microbiology, blood bank, point-of-care and pathology.

Preferred Qualifications:

Role Purpose:

Tracks and promotes quality of patient care as well as patient and visitor safety, in collaboration with quality and performance improvement activities. Minimize the frequency and severity of adverse events, manage and investigate the causes of those events to prevent injury and financial loss, and to advance awareness in order to identify risk related issues and trends. Quality management includes incident reporting, management of patient and family complaints related to quality of care, educational activities, and compliance with accreditation requirements. Proactive as well as reactive by providing support and regulatory guidance for risk reduction and process improvement by using activities such as root cause analysis and cause mapping in order to create and monitor action plans identified.

Responsibilities:

• Maintains continuous mandatory regulatory readiness for accrediting agencies. Coordinates and manages external regulatory inspections for all appropriate accrediting bodies.
• Performs validation and verification audits required by all regulatory bodies, including but not limited to, good clinical practices, competency assessment and documentation,
• Investigates and evaluates events for risk potential, loss minimization, and proper documentation in addition to using risk factor data to develop interventions and process improvement strategies.
• Participates in the development and implementation of the Quality Management Plan in accordance to the requirements of all regulatory bodies.
• Provides consultation and support to clinical teams related to performance and quality improvement initiatives and metric development and management.

Minimum Requirements:

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree
• Physical/Life Science/related

Experience:

• 2-5 years

Supervisor Experience:

• No Experience

Preferred Requirements:

Experience:

• 5-10 years

Licenses & Certifications:

• Cert/Lic in Area of Expertise
• MT/MLS - ASCP or equiv
• RTR or equiv

Benefits and Legal Statement:

BJC Total Rewards

At BJC we're committed to providing you and your family with benefits and resources to help you manage your physical, emotional, social and financial well-being.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vison, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date
• Disability insurance* paid for by BJC
• Annual 4% BJC Automatic Retirement Contribution
• 401(k) plan with BJC match
• Tuition Assistance available on first day
• BJC Institute for Learning and Development
• Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays and personal time
• Adoption assistance

To learn more, go to our Benefits Summary.

*Not all benefits apply to all jobs

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this position. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Equal Opportunity Employer