Supervisory Clinical Laboratory Scientist

Allied Health Professional

The supervisor ensures compliance with accrediting agencies and regulatory requirements and establishes and monitors the quality of pre-analytical, analytical, and post-analytical processes, initiating corrective action as needed as part of the overall laboratory quality management program. Duties may include but are not limited to:

• 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.
• Chooses methods for achieving work goals, objectives, and management strategies.
• Day to day supervision of highly complex test performance.
• Day to day supervising laboratory operations includes laboratory information systems (LIM)
• Day to day supervising histology/cytology services may require screening the cytology cases.
• Monitoring test analyses and specimen examinations to ensure acceptable levels of performance.
• Assures corrective action is initiated when test performance deviates from established performance specifications.
• Assures orientation, training, and competency assessment of staff.
• Implements and monitors quality management activities.
• Performs the full range of supervisory duties. Recommends appointment, plans and assigns work, gives advice and counsel and evaluates work of subordinates.
• Ensure that all periodic objectives are done timely.
• Ensure staff is operating as a collaborative and cohesive union, where respect and communication is paramount.
• Ensure staff is being address in a formal setting at least once a week to foster an environment where open communication is encouraged.
• Ensure the laboratory is always optimally ready for any regulatory inspection.
• Ensure all the staff are trained and performing up to established standards.

Work Schedule: Full-Time, Tour varies - will be discussed during interview

Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases

Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)

Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.

Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66

Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

Telework: Not Authorized

This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #: 07437-F

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized