Compliance & Quality Lead - Point of Care Testing

Northwestern Medicine group; Chicago (IL); Vor Ort; USD 59.000 - 79.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Tuition reimbursement

Loan forgiveness

401(k) matching

Zusammenfassung

Northwestern Medicine is seeking a Compliance Coordinator for Point of Care Testing to ensure regulatory compliance across transfusion medicine, pathology labs, and blood gas operations. This full-time role supports the department with quality, safety, and accreditation activities.

You will develop and maintain quality systems, train staff, and prepare for inspections while collaborating with Medical Directors and laboratory leadership to sustain high standards of patient care.

Qualifikationen

• Minimum 5 years experience in clinical laboratory, Transfusion Medicine, or Blood Gas Laboratory.
• Clinical/professional expertise.
• Knowledge of CAP and TJC Standards; IDOT, OSHA and CLIA regulations; CLSI guidelines.
• Knowledge of AABB standard and FDA regulations (applies to Blood Bank).

Aufgaben

• Develops and maintains a quality management system relative to the technical evaluation and improvement of services in relation to physician and patient care requirements.
• Facilitates compliance with all federal, state, local, TJC, CAP, CLSI, and other hospital regulations, policies and procedures.
• Plans and facilitates departmental preparations for accreditation inspections and related policy compliance.
• Reviews and catalogs departmental incident reports and prepares reports on quality issues for management.
• Provides training to departmental staff on quality, compliance and safety issues.
• Authors and revises SOPs and maintains departmental quality plans as required by regulators.

Kenntnisse

Regulatory compliance

Quality management

Communication

Training & mentoring

Ausbildung

Masters Degree in related field

MT (ASCP) certification

Jobbeschreibung

Northwestern Medicine is seeking a Compliance Coordinator for Point of Care Testing to ensure regulatory compliance across transfusion medicine, pathology labs, and blood gas operations. This full-time role supports the department with quality, safety, and accreditation activities.

You will develop and maintain quality systems, train staff, and prepare for inspections while collaborating with Medical Directors and laboratory leadership to sustain high standards of patient care.