Pay Range - $38 - 43.00 Per hour

Task and Responsibilities:

• Perform all duties of Testing Personnel

• Lead the laboratory team to achieve required turnaround time.

• Ensure that testing personnel utilize the appropriate pending reports to confirm all testing on all shifts is completed.

• Ensures the lab staff follow the laboratory's procedures for specimen handling and processing analysis, reporting and maintaining records of patient test results and reports any non-compliance to the appropriate leadership.

• Assists in training on all Critical Values to ensure accuracy prior to releasing of the test results.

• Assists leadership in the orientation and annual evaluation of all testing personnel and documentation of staff performance in all areas of responsibility.

• Be a point of contact for testing personnel, clients, and external departments when urgent questions arise.

• Identify and communicate problems and challenges in the workflow process to leadership and suggest solutions.

• Ensures the efficiency of the instruments through timely preventive maintenance.

• Work with leadership to properly document all corrective action taken when test systems deviate from the laboratory's established performance specifications.

• Monitors test analysis and specimen examinations to ensure that acceptable levels of analytic performance are maintained.

• Ensures that patient test results are not reported until all corrective actions have been taken and the test system is properly functioning.

• Assists leadership in calibration of the instruments and assessing the accuracy of the equipment; and performing equipment preventive and corrective maintenance.

• Assists leadership in the validation, correlations, and other technical methods to document instrument accuracy and precision.

• Capable of identifying problems that may adversely affect test performance or reporting of test results and immediately reports to leadership.

• Actively monitor email to ensure that time sensitive action is taken when necessary.

• Demonstrates knowledge of theory behind the test performed and recognizes departure from the norm be able to understand the scientific and theoretical reasons for such deviation.

• Demonstrates the ability to prioritize work duties.

• Assists leadership in maintaining adequate supplies and inventory levels.

• Assists laboratory leadership in maintaining records that demonstrate that proficiency testing is performed, recorded and evaluated according to policy.

• Recognizes the administrative changes in staffing and scheduling and adapts to these changes. Reports staff absences and schedule deviations to leadership promptly.

• Assumes the day to day duties of the Laboratory Supervisor when required.

• Assists leadership in preparing Monthly Levy-Jennings and other charts for monthly review.

• Identifies and pursues self-improvement needs.

• Seeks coaching/mentoring when appropriate.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills and Experience

• Associate or bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in medical technology, microbiology, chemistry, biology or related field.

• One year of clinical laboratory experience.

• Must qualify under CLIA regulations as testing personnel.

• Must possess state licensure as testing personnel as required.

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