Mgr Laboratory

About UVA Community Health

UVA Community Health, part of the world‑class UVA Health academic health system, is dedicated to caring for the whole person by building meaningful connections with patients in community hospitals, outpatient locations, and provider offices. By combining talent, expertise, and the breadth of capabilities across the UVA Health system, the organization brings expert care close to home and supports community wellness.

Job Summary

Provides management and operational oversight of UVA CH laboratory to ensure quality testing, fiscal targets, and volume‑based staffing targets are met using established laboratory standards. Ensures laboratories adhere to quality, safety, regulatory, certification, and accreditation standards. Supports team members’ continuing education and professional growth, as well as ensuring team members understand how their roles contribute to the laboratory and organization’s goals.

Responsibilities

• Leads (delegates) laboratory huddles
• Routinely rounds on laboratory team members
• Conducts staff meetings as necessary
• Actively manages staffing using rounding and workload volume reports
• Manages supplies and FTE expense
• Supports an environment of continuous process improvement
• Ensures laboratory resulting errors are within limits supporting quality patient care
• Actively participates in Laboratory Services Committees
• Actively participates in Laboratory Managers’ huddles and meetings
• Performs team member annual evaluations and related functions by deadlines
• Collaborates with Medical Director to identify and implement meaningful performance indicators to assess testing services across pre‑analytic, analytic, and post‑analytic testing processes
• Educates team members on applicable standards and demonstrates consistent performance adhering to standards
• Ensures core competencies are uploaded and managed using MediaLab
• Ensures team members perform critical task competencies as required to meet accrediting agencies’ guidelines
• Ensures team members’ personnel files are uploaded and current as required by accrediting agencies, including diplomas and updated licenses
• Ensures EOC safety rounds are conducted weekly and documented appropriately
• Ensures laboratories meet accrediting agencies’ safety guidelines
• Successfully leads and passes CAP self‑inspections/biannual inspection with minimal deficiencies, and develops corrective actions for deficiencies noted during inspection
• Ensures all policies and procedures are uploaded and maintained in MediaLab
• Ensures all regulatory checklists are uploaded into MediaLab and are responded to appropriately within defined deadlines
• Supports exceptional customer service and patient experience through best practice initiatives
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university in medical technology, clinical laboratory science, or chemical, physical, or biological science or equivalent required
• Successful completion of a NAACLS accredited Medical Technology or MT program preferred
• Graduate degree in a healthcare‑related field preferred
• 5–7 years of relevant laboratory technologist and/or leadership experience preferred
• Technologist/Scientist certification from ASCP or AMT‑MT required (e.g., BB, C, CG, CT, H, HTL, MT/MLS, M, MB)
• Qualifies as a General Supervisor under CLIA 88 guidelines

Additional Skills and Requirements

• Maintain ASCP Board of Certification (BOC) through the Certification Maintenance Program (CMP) for ASCP‑certified individuals (certified after Jan 1 2004)
• Maintain AMT Certification Continuation Program (CCP) for AMT‑certified individuals (certified after Jan 1 2006)
• Knowledge of current and future trends/practice in area of responsibility, regulatory and governing standards, policies and procedures