Clinical Laboratory Scientist Hematology Lead

CommonSpirit Health; Arroyo Grande (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Dignity Health's Arroyo Grande Community Hospital is seeking a Clinical Lab Scientist Lead to coordinate activities across the laboratory and oversee CLS-I/CLS-II in a rotation schedule. The role involves ensuring quality patient care while maintaining regulatory compliance and efficient operations.

The CLS Lead will collaborate with leadership to design QA plans, monitor quality indicators, and implement corrective actions.

Qualifications

• Three or more years of experience supervising CLS staff.
• California CLS license is required; MT(ASCP) registration desirable.
• Strong leadership, organizational skills, and ability to follow verbal/written instructions.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate activities to comply with accrediting standards and ensure efficient resource use for quality patient care.
• Design QA plans for assigned specialty/subspecialty and monitor quality indicators.
• Participate in corrective actions when improvements are identified.
• Validate methods and establish QC programs and maintenance per standards.
• Review QC data, proficiency testing, and patient data; act on trends and issues.
• Communicate with laboratory manager/pathologist daily to address problems promptly.

Skills

Leadership

Supervision

Communication

Quality Assurance

Regulatory compliance

Lab knowledge

Education

California CLS license

MT(ASCP) registration desirable

Job description

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Clinical Lab Scientist Lead you will coordinate and participate in all activities of assigned section of the laboratory. In collaboration with leadership, actively participates and assists the service area in any administrative functions assigned and helps ensure the efficient daily operation of the Laboratory Department. The CLS Lead works alongside the CLS-I and CLS-II and rotates shifts, holidays, and weekends as needed. Duties and responsibilities will be tailored to the specialty/subspecialty of the Clinical Lab assigned. Active collaboration with the other leads in the department to maintain and improve efficiency, ensure regulatory compliance to laboratory standards, and uphold the values of Dignity Health is required.

Every day you will

• Coordinate activities in laboratory specialty/subspecialty assigned to comply with accrediting organization standards while ensuring efficient use of resources and to provide quality patient care.
• Design Quality Assurance plans for the sspecialty/ subspecialty of area assigned. Develops and monitors key indicators of quality (in preanalytical, analytic and post analytic activities) to detect problems and opportunities for improvement.
• Participates in the establishment and implementation of corrective actions when opportunities for improvement are identified.
• Validates methods and procedures, establishes quality control programs (frequency, review of data, required actions when QC fails) and preventative maintenance programs for each section of responsibility according to accrediting agency standards.
• QA must include: Review of Quality Control, proficiency testing evaluation, review of patient data, physician complaints. Takes immediate action if an unexpected trend occurs. Ensures that instrumentation is functioning within acceptable parameters.
• Recognize a deficiency or erroneous result and takes appropriate action or seeks assistance as appropriate. Researches problems related to section and follows through to completion. Communicates daily with laboratory manager and/or pathologist to evaluate problems in a prompt and appropriate manner as applicable.

Job Requirements

• Three or more years of experience as a Clinical Laboratory Scientist or Medical Technologist with demonstrated ability to supervise and instruct.
• Clinical Laboratory Scientist, licensed by Lab Field Services, CDPH
• Must possess a valid California license as a Clinical Laboratory Scientist; MT(ASCP) registration desirable.
• Must exhibit strong leadership and organizational skills. Must be able to follow verbal and written instructions exactly.
• Must be able to exercise good judgment in making decisions where the above does not apply.
• Must be able to work in a professional and conscientious manner under high volume and STAT conditions.
• Must be able to communicate effectivelywith doctors, staff, patients, and Co-workers. Must know scientific theory of laboratory tests and workflow, and be able to perform tests accurately and efficiently.
• LIC CLS

Preferred

• Basic management courses are highly desirable.

Where You'll Work

Founded in 1961, Dignity Health - Arroyo Grande Community Hospital is a 65-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Arroyo Grande, California. Serving over 90,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including, emergency care, and orthopedics. Additionally, Arroyo Grande Community Hospital has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center, and has the only inpatient Acute Rehabilitation Center between Salinas and Santa Barbara.

One Community. One Mission. One California