Supervisory Clinical Laboratory Scientist

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1. Directs plans and evaluates all laboratory services in alignment with facility goals. Provides administrative and technical supervision including development and implementation of laboratory policies, operational procedures and department objectives.
2. Prepares and manages the laboratory budget, maintains accreditation requirements and monitors laboratory performance.
3. Determines staffing needs, ensuring positions are filled with qualified professionals. Oversees staff orientation, training and competency assessments.
4. Oversees all pre-analytic, analytic, and post-analytic testing activities to ensure accurate results, compliance with approved procedures, and adherence to quality and performance standards. Maintains effective quality control, quality assessment, and proficiency testing programs, ensuring errors are identified, corrected, and resolved in accordance with regulatory requirements.
5. Maintains current procedure manuals, assigns testing responsibilities, and provides appropriate supervision to support consistent, high-quality laboratory operations.
6. Collects, verifies, and processes patient specimens in accordance with established laboratory procedures, ensuring accurate patient identification, specimen integrity, confidentiality, and proper handling throughout the pre-analytical phase.
7. Performs and reports a broad range of clinical laboratory tests using approved methods, equipment, and quality control practices to support patient diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring.