Supervisory Clinical Laboratory Scientist

Job Title

Supervisory Clinical Laboratory Scientist

Duties

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Supervise at least one staff member at the GS-12 grade level. The supervisory CLS exercises a full range of supervisory responsibilities in planning, directing, and assessing work of subordinate staff.
• Recommends appointments, awards, advancement, and disciplinary actions. The CLS 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 and establishes and monitors the quality of pre-analytical, analytical, and post-analytical processes, initiating corrective actions as needed as part of the overall laboratory quality 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.
• Grants leave to subordinates in the assigned T&L group according to established leave policies. Communicates with other section supervisors and management as necessary to assure adequate lab coverage. Hears and resolves complaints from employees and customers.
• Solves complex problem and is concern with unique or controversial aspects of medical technology or laboratory management, new or unconventional methods, program changes, of conflict between scientific/technological requirement and regulatory and regulatory or program (i.e., cost effectiveness) requirements.

Work Schedule: Monday thru Friday 7:45 am - 4:30 pm

Telework: Not Available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #: 61101-F

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

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Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized