Manager Laboratory

Job Summary

Join St. Francis–Emory Healthcare, a 376-bed community-connected hospital in Columbus, GA, that blends cutting-edge care with hometown purpose. As part of the ScionHealth network, St. Francis has been recognized and awarded multiple high-performing honors by U.S. News & World Report, and received multiple disease-specific certifications from the Joint Commission, and was a rated Top Large Hospital in Georgia. St. Francis also delivers advanced heart, orthopedic, and women’s care services. At St. Francis, you will experience a culture of excellence where your work directly shapes the health of our community.

Essential Functions

• Supervise all aspects of the laboratory (main lab, phlebotomy, ancillary sites and ER lab), including the daily efficient operation of all sections, ordering of supplies, maintaining budget limits and expense reports, payroll edits and accruals, scheduling, personnel policy interpretation, counseling of employees, in the absence of the Director.
• Maintains an adequate inventory of supplies and reagents in the department to ensure testing can always be performed when ordered.
• Resolves technical problems and ensures that remedial actions are taken whenever test systems deviate from the department's established performance specifications. Possesses problem-solving skills that are needed to ensure quick resolution of problems that technicians/technologists face, technical in nature or personnel.
• Maintains an effective quality control program appropriate for the testing performed, establishing the parameters for acceptable levels of analytic performance, and ensuring that these levels are maintained with all required reporting throughout the entire testing process from the initial receipt of the specimen through sample analysis and reporting of test results in their department.
• Evaluates the competency of testing personnel who work in their department and ensures that the staff maintains their competency to perform test procedures and report test results promptly, accurately, and proficiently.
• Performs and documents annual review of procedure manual, determining if revision is necessary. Evaluate the need for new procedures, selecting the methodology appropriate for the clinical use of the test results.
• Schedules and maintains the department work schedule for daily work, holidays, vacations, sick leave, etc.
• Performs and maintains department and individual competencies for STAT and routine testing in the laboratory as needed.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Performs and supervises the performance of moderate and high complexity laboratory procedures across the major areas of the laboratory or concentrates activity in one area such as blood banking, chemistry, hematology, immunology or microbiology. Identifying atypical/abnormal cells, unusual organisms, parasites and unexpected antibodies requires incumbent to utilize experience and available resources. Failure to accurately perform patient testing may hinder patient safety and morale. Recognizes obvious errors in results and investigates for probable cause. Errors in test results may delay treatment of patient and/or misdiagnosis. Multiple STAT orders may present a problem in performing timely efficient results.
• Utilizes educational background in technical methodology and theory to independently perform, interpret and report test analyses. Incumbent acts in accordance with laboratory policy and procedure, HIPAA, CAP, Code of Conduct, OSHA, CLIA, HCFA, and JCAHO regulations. An assistant lab supervisor identifies, evaluates and resolves problems with test analyses and consults with the lab supervisor or the lab director when appropriate, according to established and approved protocols.

Education

A successful completion of an accredited four-year Bachelor’s Degree program for Medical Technology or the equivalent is recommended.

Licenses/Certification

Certification as an MT(ASCP) is preferred.

Experience

A minimum of five (5) years working experience as a bench technologist is preferred with leadership and quality assurance experience.