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POSITION SUMMARY:
Under the general guidance of the Laboratory Director, supervise day-to-day operations of the histology laboratory. Assigns, oversees, and reviews the work of employees including competency and quality indicators of the department. Directs all phases of work, quality, service and costs, and performs test or assays as required.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Supervises the day-to-day operations of the department. This includes:
- Staff hires, scheduling, development, training and annual appraisals.
- Develop, review and update all Standard Operation Procedure manuals
- Monitor workload allocation to ensure compliance with regulations and departmental turnaround time expectations
- Responsible for statistical compilation and analysis
- Responsible for all histology laboratory inspection compliance and regulations
- Establish, implement, enforce and monitor all QC, QA, service, safety and compliance indicators and programs
- Monitor department budget
- Participation in inventory control
- Ensure staff competency and remedial action if/when test systems deviate for acceptable standards
- Documentation and timely completion of special projects
- Oversee the processing laboratory
- Troubleshoot equipment and computer related problems
- Validation of methodology and instrumentation
- Oversee laboratory inspection
- Perform duties of cytotechnologist, as needed
PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS:
Communicate problems or matters that need attention to the Laboratory Director
Maintain all competency, workload and discrepancy reports
Have laboratory inspection-ready
Maintain all departmental trends and stats
Ensure equipment maintenance
Monitor overall laboratory errors including accessioning, data entry, labeling and processing
Administer the successful training of new hires
Attendance at managerial meetings
Complete an accurate documentation of all QC, QA, instrument and safety logs
REQUIREMENTS:
BS/BA degree in Histology or other life science
5+ years of related experience
ASCP board-certified as a histotechnologist is preferred, but not required
Working knowledge of state and federal regulations governing laboratories
Understanding and assistance in quality control/quality improvement programs, staining QC, programs/reports
