Clinical Lab Supervisor: Operations & Compliance Leader

Cancer Center of South Florida PLLC; Florida; On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Cancer Center of South Florida PLLC is seeking a Laboratory Supervisor to lead day-to-day clinical and technical operations in a CLIA-certified practice. You will supervise staff, ensure accurate testing, and maintain compliance with CLIA, COLA, Florida regulations, and safety standards.

The role requires MLS certification, FL technologist licensure, and at least five years in clinical labs, with prior supervision preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in medical laboratory technology, clinical laboratory science, biological science, healthcare, or a related field required; bachelor’s degree preferred. Education outside the United States must be evaluated and documented as equivalent.
• Minimum of five years of medical clinical laboratory experience required.
• Prior laboratory supervisory or lead experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates daily laboratory operations to support accurate, timely, and compliant testing and specimen processing.
• Provides day-to-day work direction, coordinates workflow and staffing coverage, and communicates operational priorities to laboratory personnel.
• Functions as a working supervisor and performs laboratory testing and specimen processing as needed.
• Reviews test results for accuracy, completeness, and appropriate release or escalation within the position’s authorized scope.
• Monitors testing volume, turnaround times, specimen rejection, recollection, corrected results, send-outs, and other quality measures.
• Ensures specimens are properly identified, collected, labeled, processed, tested, stored, transported, retained, and disposed of.
• Serves as a technical resource for laboratory and clinical personnel and escalates matters requiring physician, laboratory director, or pathologist review.
• Oversees applicable quality-control, quality-assurance, proficiency-testing, calibration, temperature-monitoring, maintenance, and corrective-action activities.
• Reviews testing errors, instrument failures, quality-control concerns, and proficiency-testing results; assists with investigations and recommends corrective action.
• Ensures laboratory equipment is properly operated, maintained, calibrated, monitored, and documented.
• Maintains complete, accurate, current, and inspection-ready laboratory policies, procedures, records, logs, licenses, certificates, and accreditation documentation.
• Supports compliance with applicable CLIA, COLA, Florida, manufacturer, safety, and organizational requirements and coordinates preparation for inspections and audits.
• Trains laboratory personnel and conducts or supports required competency assessments within the scope of the position’s authority.
• Monitors adherence to laboratory procedures and competency requirements and reports performance or compliance concerns to appropriate leadership.
• Maintains laboratory safety, infection-prevention, patient-identification, confidentiality, and result-reporting standards.
• Monitors laboratory supplies, reagents, controls, and testing materials to ensure they are properly stored, current, and available.
• Collaborates with the supervising physician, laboratory director, pathologists, reference laboratories, clinical teams, and operational leadership to resolve laboratory issues and improve quality and patient care.

Skills

Clinical laboratory procedures

LIS/EMR systems

Infection prevention

Medical terminology

Data entry

Safety compliance

Education

MLS (ASCP) certification

Florida Clinical Laboratory Technologist license

Florida Clinical Laboratory Supervisor license (preferred)

Job description

Cancer Center of South Florida PLLC is seeking a Laboratory Supervisor to lead day-to-day clinical and technical operations in a CLIA-certified practice. You will supervise staff, ensure accurate testing, and maintain compliance with CLIA, COLA, Florida regulations, and safety standards.

The role requires MLS certification, FL technologist licensure, and at least five years in clinical labs, with prior supervision preferred.