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NYC Health + Hospitals · 1 day ago

Laboratory Technologist - Level 5

New York, NY

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$133K/yr - $133K/yr

NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest municipal hospital and health care system in the country, providing high quality health services with compassion and dignity. The Laboratory Technologist - Level 5 will supervise testing personnel, ensure compliance with quality control, and maintain laboratory operations while promoting patient safety and care.

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Responsibilities

Supervising testing personnel, monitoring and ensuring that acceptable performance specifications are maintained, including review of quality control, scheduled instrument and equipment maintenance and other quality assurance activities as assigned

Ensuring test system performance by initiating preventive and/or remedial actions when test procedures deviate from the laboratory's established performance specifications and in the event of nonconformances, ensuring that test results are not reported until corrective action has been taken and the test is performing according to laboratory established performance specifications

Verifying that personnel are trained and deemed proficient prior to performing testing on patient specimens independently, ensuring that staff have competency assessments as needed and ensuring action is taken when personnel do not perform as expected on competency assessments

Compliance with standard operating procedures (SOPs), communication, including bringing problems and non-conformities to the attention of laboratory management/leadership and problem-solving capabilities, allocation of assets for effective daily laboratory operations and personnel management

Follows and complies with standard precautions, patient confidentiality/privacy/HIPAA/PHI/safety/infection control policies, use appropriate PPE, decontaminate bench surfaces or equipment and does documentation as appropriate

Review of applicable test results daily and or in his/her next duty period, Proficiency testing performance management/monitoring and preliminary review prior to director final review and approval

Staff training/competency assessment, providing orientation to testing personnel, overseeing/performance and preliminary review of test methodology performance studies only (no approval)

SOPs’ review excluding new and or subsequent changes to SOPs, supervisory/point of care testing review, maintenance and applicable quality control/calibration/maintenance review at the least monthly, maintaining a safe laboratory environment for employees and patients, training/competency assessment and other CLIA-required roles not performed by the laboratory director

Responsible for overall core laboratory operations/maintenance

Following laboratory's pre-analytic and analytic procedures and maintaining records of tests, maintaining records that demonstrate that proficiency testing samples are tested in the same manner as patient specimens

Perform patient testing, adhering to the laboratory's quality assurance procedures, including documenting all quality control activities, instrument and equipment verifications, maintenance and preventive maintenance, following the laboratory's policies and procedures whenever test systems are not within the laboratory's established performance specifications, identifying and documenting problems that may adversely affect test performance, and notifying the supervisor, assistant director(s) or director and documenting all corrective actions taken when test systems deviate from the laboratory's established performance specifications

Perform other assigned tasks required and does bench work on need basis

Maintains standards of care, work on laboratory goals to prioritize patient safety/care and respond to inquiries courteously/accurately and timely

Promote safe, cooperative and professional health care environment for patient/public health safety, optimal patient care, best laboratory practices, rules/regulations and demonstrates standards of performance and behaviors

Coordinates department staffing and scheduling to ensure adequate shift and skill coverage and maintains laboratory/compliance records

Ensures adequate operating supplies, appropriate inventory management, specimen handling and management (all pre-analytical, analytical and post analytical processing), recording/tracking of specimens, monitors checks/documentation of environmental conditions, physically inspect reagents, controls, calibrators and other supplies, checks lot number and expiration dates and does required documentation

Ensures Shift to shift communication to manager(s)/supervisor(s) and all staff about pending tasks/ongoing compliance and tasks that needs to be accomplished timely to avoid safety and patient care issues for efficient laboratory operations

Assist in hiring, training, performance appraisals and ensures timely completion of tasks

Manage, plan, organize and evaluate functions including, but not limited to financial management, site operations, department/institution PI process, develop/implement, and evaluate approved processes to achieve service line strategic goals

Knowledgeable about contents of SOPs relevant to scope of services, keeps self-abreast with knowledge/developments in laboratory medicine and compliance with continuing education requirements

Agrees to comply with terms of Health Commerce Security and use policies as required

Qualification

Clinical laboratory licenseSupervisory skillsQuality assuranceStaff trainingLaboratory operationsPatient careProblem-solvingCommunication skills

Required

Valid license as a clinical laboratory technologist, cytotechnologist, or histotechnologist issued by the NYSED

In addition to meeting the qualification requirement of Assignment Level II, candidates must also meet one of the qualification requirements of a laboratory supervisor as outlined in Title 10, Section 58-1.4 of the New York Public Health Law