**CLS III

Join an award-winning team of dedicated professionals committed to our core values of quality, compassion and community. Garden City Hospital, a member of Prime Healthcare, offers incredible opportunities to expand your horizons and be part of a community dedicated to making a difference. We are a state-of-the-art medical facility with over 300 licensed beds and a teaching hospital, offering medical education to students, residents, and fellows from across the country. The residency and fellowship programs provide graduate medical education to more than 80 trainees in various specialties. Garden City Hospital has an award-winning staff of over 350 of the area's best and brightest physicians from almost every specialty.

Responsibilities

• Performs only those waived, moderate, or highly complex tests authorized by CLIA, Bus. & Prof. Code Section 1204, possessing a degree of skill commensurate with individual’s education, training, or experience and technical abilities.
• Functions as the department Section Supervisor or Lead, responsible for supervising the daily operation of the section(s).
• Provides consultative services to the medical staff in the capacity of Technical Consultant.
• Oversees the section/department performance improvement program and participates in hospital interdisciplinary performance improvement initiatives.
• Responsible for the technical and fiscal management of the section(s).
• Oversees the section(s) quality management/assurance program.
• Ensures compliance with all regulatory and accreditation requirements.
• Assesses staff competency and completes performance evaluations in a timely manner.
• Ensures the accuracy of patient results prior to releasing or reporting.
• Develops, maintains, and updates section policy and procedure manuals.
• Reviews quality control performance ensuring documentation of corrective actions taken when test systems deviate from the laboratory’s established performance specifications.
• Identifies problems that may adversely affect test performance and either corrects the problem or immediately notifies the Director or Medical Director.
• Performs a wide variety of laboratory procedures requiring independent judgment using both manual and automated methods in Hematology, Blood Bank, Chemistry, Urinalysis, Coagulation, Microbiology, Immunology, and any other discipline as introduced into the laboratory.
• Ensures the performance and documentation of equipment maintenance—daily, weekly, monthly, or as needed.
• Recognizes age-specific differences in expected results for newborns to geriatrics.
• Ensures that proficiency testing samples are tested in the same manner as patient samples and that collaboration with other laboratories is prohibited prior to reporting results to the appropriate agencies.
• Ensures the currency of all laboratory policies and procedures.
• Adheres to all department and hospital policies and procedures related to safety, infection control, emergency preparedness, and human resources.
• May be assigned responsibilities related to LIS and/or POC.
• Other tasks or responsibilities may be assigned by the department manager/director.

Requirements

• ASCP certification, or equivalent, preferred.
• Minimum five years of hospital laboratory work experience required.
• Bachelor’s Degree in chemical, physical, biological health science or Medical Laboratory Technology from an accredited institution, or other educational requirements stated in CLIA (42 CFR 493.1461).
• Current and Valid State License if the laboratory is located in a state where required.

Schedule

Part Time (less than 60 hours)

Shift: Days