Point of Care Testing Supervisor Lead POC Programs

Montefiore Hudson Valley Collaborative; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The Supervisor will supervise Point of Care testing according to regulatory criteria. Direct the operations of the Point of Care Testing program for the Montefiore Health System. Maintain and monitor tests including glucose, urine analysis, urine pregnancy, occult blood, rapid strep and other using JCAHO, NYS and CLIA guidelines.

Oversee regulatory compliance for outpatient and in patient sites. The position is located in the Point of Care Testing lab at the Moses campus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required.
• Medical Lab Technologist training required.
• NYS Clinical Laboratory Technologist license required.
• 4 years of bench experience (or 2 years’ experience with a Master’s degree) to qualify as a supervisor.
• Familiarity with Point of Care Testing instrumentation required.
• Knowledge of laboratory information systems required.
• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) required.
• Knowledge of troubleshooting devices and root cause analysis when issues are identified.

Responsibilities

• Set up documentation for point of care testing for each current and new site per NCCLS guidelines.
• Establish criteria for licensing and performance testing of staff (Certification Program) and develop online testing program as partner of e-learning.
• Track personnel and site involved in training, schedule annual reviews of training and certification process.
• Travel to sites for training and review of point of care records.
• Develop and implement necessary accessioning and QC program for each POC test.
• Track monthly compliance with program for each site.
• Take corrective actions with non-compliant individuals through appropriate channels.
• Develop PT programs where they do not commercially exist.
• Comparative analysis of POC devices prior to implementing new devices.

Skills

Point of Care Testing

Root cause analysis

Troubleshooting

LIS experience

Microsoft Office

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Medical Lab Technologist training

NYS Clinical Laboratory Technologist license

Tools

Laboratory Information Systems

Microsoft Office

Job description

The Supervisor will supervise Point of Care testing according to regulatory criteria. Direct the operations of the Point of Care Testing program for the Montefiore Health System. Maintain and monitor tests including glucose, urine analysis, urine pregnancy, occult blood, rapid strep and other using JCAHO, NYS and CLIA guidelines.

Oversee regulatory compliance for outpatient and in patient sites. The position is located in the Point of Care Testing lab at the Moses campus.