Laboratory Supervisor

Laboratory Supervisor

Dunlop - Clarksville, TN 37043

Description

All Employees of Premier Medical Group are required to demonstrate our core values of Integrity, Respect and Compassion throughout their employment with us, placing patients first. Our employees must commit to always acknowledging our patients positively; showing genuine concern for their needs, identifying themselves and how they and others on the team can help, keeping patients informed and offering thanks for choosing and trusting us with their healthcare needs.

Job Purpose: The laboratory supervisor, under the direction of the laboratory director, assists in the day-to-day supervision of testing personnel and reporting of test results. In the absence of the laboratory director, the laboratory supervisor must be responsible for the proper performance of all laboratory procedures and reporting of test results.

Essential Functions: (Examples of Duties)

1. Scheduling personnel to meet the needs of the site's providers, to include scheduling vacation time and covering sick time scheduled and unscheduled
2. The supervisor is responsible for assisting in oversight of day-to-day supervision of test performance by testing personnel
3. Responsible for assisting in maintaining the established quality control program appropriate for the testing performed and maintaining the parameters for acceptable levels of analytic performance and ensuring that these levels are maintained throughout the entire testing process from the initial receipt of the specimen through sample analysis and reporting of test results.
4. Responsible for helping to resolve technical problems and ensuring that remedial actions are taken whenever test systems deviate from the laboratory's established performance specifications.
5. Responsible for ensuring that patient test results are not reported until all corrective actions have been taken and the test system is functioning properly.
6. Responsible for providing orientation to all testing personnel
7. Assisting in the process for evaluating the competency of all testing personnel and assuring that the staff maintains their competency to perform test procedures and report test results promptly, accurately, and proficiently
8. Annually assisting in evaluating and documenting the performance of all testing personnel
9. Authorized to sign the attestation statement on proficiency testing result submission forms when applicable.

Qualifications

Job Requirements/Qualifications: (Describe minimum qualifications, preferred or required)

Education : Bachelors Degree as a Medical Technologist, or Associates Degree as a Medical Laboratory Technician. Supervisors license required.

Experience: 1 year of supervisory experience preferred

Knowledge and Skills:

• Excellent customer relations skills
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Experience with regulatory and accreditation of laboratory operations

Licenses/Certifications:

• Board registered as a Medical Technologist with one of the National Registries associated with laboratory practice or certified as a Medical Laboratory Technician with 2 years of experience in area of supervision

Working Conditions:

• Frequent contact with water (hand washing and cleaning), bio hazardous body fluids, and hazardous chemicals
• Sufficient noise and interruptions to cause distraction and stress
• Hazardous working conditions in which individual is exposed to definite risk of bodily injury through contact with moving instrumentations, chemicals, and/or body fluids
• Certain incidental functions may require use of protective gear such as face shields, gloves, and fluid-resistant coats.

Physical Demands:

• Medium work of lifting up to 50 pounds and/or carrying objects weighing up to 25 pounds
• Responsible for lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling objects