Supervisor- Hematology/Blood Bank; Department of Pathology

Job description

Overview
Overall supervisory responsibility for the procedures, processes, workflow and personnel of the laboratory.
Responsibilities
• Establish and maintain positive relationships with patients, visitors, and other employees. Interacts professionally, courteously, and appropriately with patients, visitors and other employees. Behaves in a manner consistent with maintaining and furthering a positive public perception of BronxCare Health System and its employee.
• Contributes to and participates in the Performance/Quality Improvement activities of the assigned department. Contribution and participation includes data collection, analysis, implementation of and compliance with risk management and claims activities, support of and participation in Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) teams, consistent adherence to the specific rules and regulations of the BronxCare Health System (a) Safety and Security Policies, (b) Risk Management: Incident and Occurrence Reporting, (c) Infection Control Policies and Procedures and (d) Patient and Customer Service.
• Coordinates and supervises the workflow to ensure compliance with published turn-around time parameters.
• Prepares advance personnel schedules: up-dates on-going schedule changes, control personnel budgetary expenditures, e.g., guidelines for per diem, part time and overtime utilization.
• Makes daily/weekly/monthly staff work assignments.
• Conducts on-going and regularly scheduled in-service education sessions. Will train and orient employees in terms of changing and/or additional technology and policies.
• Responsible for staff adherence to BCHS’s administrative policies and procedures, e.g. time and leave, work productivity, etc.
• Vested with the overall responsibility of maintaining sufficient stock of reagent and/or equipment. Responsible for adherence to “minimum inventory” policy (minimally five days of stock reagents and/or material).
• In an active participant and member of the Department of Pathology Quality Assurance (QA) Committee. Will compile and present lab QA indicators at monthly Quality Assurance meetings.
• Ensures compliance with the mandates and guidelines of regulatory and professional governing agencies (federal, state, municipal, and professional- CDC, FDA, NYSDOH, NYCDOH, CAP).
• Actively participates in preparation and production of laboratory manuals, policies and intra-departmental documents. Ensures that all manuals, policies and intra-departmental documents are formatted in compliance with National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards (NCCLS) guidelines.

Qualifications
• Minimally six (6) years of experience as a Medical Technologist or Four (4) years as a Medical Technologist, with a Masters’ Degree
• NYSDOH License as a Clinical Laboratory Technologist (CLIA)
• Bachelors in Medical Technology/Biological Studies
• Masters’ Degree
• Computer Literacy