Job Description
Summary:
At Kyla/Action Urgent Care, you’ll feel our supportive community every step of the way. We deliver Urgent Care, Primary Care, and Specialty Care Services. We’re a team and love working that way. We have opportunities for Providers who are inspired to pioneer new models of care and want to transform the healthcare experience. As an expanding Medical Practice, we aim to help our communities thrive & are offering an exceptional opportunity for you to join our team!
Medical Laboratory Director Requirements & Responsibilities
Requirements
- Licensed MD/DO/DPM AND certified in anatomic or clinical pathology OR 1 year of lab training during medical residency OR 2 years experience directing or supervising high complexity testing
- Doctoral degree in a chemical, physical, biological, or laboratory science AND certified by an HHS-approved board
Responsibilities
- Ensure that policies and procedures are established for monitoring individuals who conduct pre-analytical, analytical, and post-analytical phases of testing to verify that they maintain competency
- Ensure that all personnel have the appropriate education and experience prior to testing patient specimens; receive appropriate training for the type and complexity of services offered; and have demonstrated that they can perform all testing operations reliably to provide and report accurate results
- Employ a sufficient number of laboratory personnel with appropriate education, experience and/or training to provide appropriate consultation, properly supervise, and accurately perform tests and report test results
- Ensure that laboratory personnel are performing the test methods as required to obtain accurate and reliable results
- Ensure that an approved procedure manual is available to all personnel
- Ensure that consultation is available to the laboratory’s clients on matters relating to the quality of the test results reported and their interpretation concerning specific patient conditions
- Ensure that test result reports include pertinent information required for interpretation
- Ensure verification procedures are adequate to determine accuracy, precision, and other pertinent performance characteristics of the method
- Ensure test methods selected have the capability of providing quality results
- Ensure testing systems provide quality laboratory services across the path of workflow (for all phases of testing: pre-analytic, analytic, and post-analytic phases)
- Ensure that the physical plant and environmental conditions are appropriate for the testing performed and provide a safe environment, free of physical, chemical, and biological hazards
- May direct no more than five labs
- Must be accessible to the laboratory to provide onsite, telephone, or electronic con- sultation as needed
- Verify that all delegated duties are properly performed
- To process specimens
- Perform test procedures
- Report test results promptly and proficiently
- Whenever necessary, identify remedial training and/or continuing education needs to improve skills
- Have a written list of responsibilities of each individual in the laboratory that specifies:
- The level of activity each is authorized to perform,
- Whether supervision is required for specimen processing, test performance or results reporting
- Whether consultant or director review is required prior to reporting patient test results
- Ensure that a general supervisor provides on-site supervision of certain testing personnel who perform high complexity testing
- Ensure that the laboratory is enrolled in an approved proficiency testing (PT) program Ensure that PT samples are tested in the same manner as patient samples
- Ensure that PT samples are tested in the same manner as patient samples
- Ensure that PT samples are tested in compliance with regulations that prohibit referral of nspecimens and sharing of or communication about results
- Ensure that PT results are returned on time to the PT program
- Ensure that PT results are reviewed by the appropriate staff, and the corrective action plan is followed when PT results are found to be unsatisfactory
- Ensure that quality control and quality assessment programs are established and maintained to identify failures in quality as they occur
- Ensure the establishment and maintenance of acceptable levels of analytical performance for each test system
- Ensure that corrective actions are taken and documented, whenever significant deviations from the laboratory’s established performance characteristics are identified, and patient test results are reported only when the system is functioning properly
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: From $100,000.00 per year
Schedule:
Ability to commute/relocate:
- San Jose, CA: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)
Experience:
- Research: 1 year (Preferred)
Work Location: In person