Supervisory Clinical Laboratory Scientist

Supervisory Clinical Laboratory Scientist - Blood Bank

The duties and responsibilities of the Supervisory Clinical Laboratory Scientist - Blood Bank include but are not limited to the following:

• Provides oversite and operational management for Blood Bank within the Pathology and Laboratory Service Line.
• Provides administrative and technical supervision and performs major duties above those at the Full Performance Level (FPL) that consist of significant scope, complexity, difficulty, and variety.
• Exercises a full range of supervisory responsibilities in planning, directing, and assessing work of subordinate staff.
• Recommends appointments, awards, advancement, and disciplinary actions.
• Plans and assigns work based on priorities, requirements of assignments, and abilities of employees; provides advice and counsel; and evaluates work of subordinates.
• Ensures compliance with accrediting agencies and regulatory requirements.
• Establishes and monitors the quality of pre-analytical, analytical, and postanalytical processes.
• Initiates corrective actions as needed as part of the overall laboratory quality management program
• Plans management program.
• Plans and executes performance and quality improvement projects.
• Verifies orientation, training, and competency assessment of assigned staff and develops and updates technical policies and procedure manuals.
• Ensures all staff and affiliate staff comply with accrediting and regulating bodies.
• Adjusts staffing levels or work procedures to accommodate resource allocation decisions made at the executive level.
• Manages document control, develops performance standards, position descriptions, and functional statements and is responsible for technical and administrative management of an assigned area including budget execution.
• Interacts with administrative and clinical onsite personnel and exercises significant independent decision-making authority.
• Maintains effective interdisciplinary and interprofessional relations with other services to accomplish medical center goals.
• Implements and monitors quality management activities, including proficiency testing by an external source (e.g. CAP).
• Maintains standard operating procedures for assigned specialties in accordance with standards directed by applicable accrediting agencies.
• Oversees education of Medical Laboratory Technician, Clinical Laboratory Science and Phlebotomy students within assigned area of the laboratory.
• The supervisor work off-hour shifts, weekends, and holidays as priorities demonstrate a need.
• Works as a team member to provide back-up support for timekeeping as needed for continuity of operations.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 6:30am - 3:00pm, rotating weekends and holidays and on-call time.

Telework: Not Available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #: 000000

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

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Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized