Lead Clinical Lab Technologist

Baylor Scott & White Health; Village of Suffern (NY); On-site; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Baylor Scott & White Health is seeking a Lead Clinical Lab Technologist to supervise laboratory staff and manage operations, ensuring timely patient testing and compliance with regulatory standards. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's Degree, significant experience in lab technology, and leadership skills in a customer-oriented environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 6 years of experience as Clinical Lab Technologist required.
• Computer skills in word processing and spreadsheets preferred.
• NY State Education Department license a Clinical Laboratory Technologist required.

Responsibilities

• Supervises Laboratory staff and operations to ensure timely patient testing.
• Organizes and directs operational processes, staff scheduling, and workflow.
• Ensures compliance with safety and regulatory standards.

Skills

Leadership skills

Computer skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Job description

The Lead Clinical Lab Technologist supervises Laboratory staff and operations to ensure that patient testing occurs in a timely and satisfactory manner. This position is responsible for workflow technical and patient issues, acts as a technical consultant for technical and patient issues, and coordinates lab instruments and maintenance. The lead technologist functions as a testing technologist for the majority of the time. The testing menu for this facility is limited to general chemistry and general hematology.

Responsibilities:

• Performs testing and accurately results and reports per regulatory standards.
• Complies with safety standards.
• Organizes, plans, and directs operational processes, staff scheduling, workflow, human resource issues, and staff development; oversees the performance and quality improvement initiatives for areas of responsibility.
• Develop, establish, and ensure implementation of procedures.
• Understands and complies with regulatory standards.
• Performs Quality Control tasks.
• Troubleshoots as necessary.
• Performs proficiency testing and schedules other technologists for proficiency testing as per regulatory standards.
• Ensures the daily review of patient test results and quality reports.
• Ensures and maintains adequate supplies and reagents.
• Ensures the performance of linearity studies, correlations and routine and emergency maintenance of laboratory instrumentation and methodologies as per regulatory standards.
• Participates in Quality Improvement initiatives.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications/Requirements:

Experience: Minimum of 6 years of experience as Clinical Lab Technologist required. Computer skills to include word processing and spread sheets using Microsoft Word and Excel preferred.

Education: Bachelor's Degree required.

Licenses / Certifications: NY State Education Department license a Clinical Laboratory Technologist required; National registration (NCA/ASCP) preferred.

Other: Leadership skills in a customer-oriented environment preferred.

Special Requirements: N/A

About Us:

Good Samaritan Hospital

Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern, NY, is a 286-bed hospital providing emergency, medical, surgical, obstetrical/gynecological and acute-care services to residents of Rockland and southern Orange counties in New York; and northern Bergen County, NJ. The hospital is home to a recognized cardiovascular program, comprehensive cancer-treatment services, the area's leading Wound and Hyperbaric Institute and outstanding maternal/child services that includes a Children's Diagnostic Center. Good Samaritan Hospital also provides social, psychiatric and substance-abuse services and its certified home-care agency supports residents of the Hudson Valley and beyond.