Lab Quality Coordinator

Intermountain Health

4d • Onsite

About The Position

Under the direction of the CLIA Laboratory Director and Lab Quality Management, the Quality Assurance Coordinator supports a comprehensive QA/QM program which assures compliance with all applicable regulatory accrediting agencies and responding with any needed corrective action. What does it mean to be a caregiver with Intermountain? Check out this video and learn more and discover the “Power of We.”

Requirements

• Associate or bachelor’s degree in a chemical, biological or clinical laboratory/medical laboratory science.
• Education must be obtained through an accredited institution. Degree will be verified.
• MLT/MLS(ASCP) certification or equivalent
• Three years of technical laboratory or laboratory quality assurance experience
• Computer literacy
• Communication
• Regulatory knowledge
• Laboratory Techniques and Protocols
• Documentation
• Report writing
• Working Independently
• Critical thinking
• Driving
• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, documents, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess customer needs.
• Frequent interactions with providers, colleagues, customers, patients/clients and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, needs, and issues quickly and accurately.
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate supplies and equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use for typing, accessing needed information, etc.
• For roles requiring driving: Expected to drive a vehicle which requires sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles.

Nice To Haves

• Certification or training with quality assurance theory and tools
• Five years of technical laboratory experience

Responsibilities

• Promotes and supports the One Intermountain philosophy.
• Developing and implementing a standard quality program.
• Oversite of document control and SOP development, review and updates.
• Monitoring and ensuring adherence to laboratory training and competency program.
• Ensuring improved, system-wide integration of policies, procedures and competencies.
• Keeping current on regulatory and compliance issues and communicating updates and changes to laboratory leadership.
• Tracking and reporting errors, KPIs, system monitors and metrics through auditing and implementing quality improvement tools.
• Oversite of lab applications related to error management, quality assurance and education.
• Supports lab leadership in proficiency testing, validations, correlations, calibrations, instrument implementation, error documentation, root cause analysis and change control.
• Supports and manages accrediting body (i.e. CAP, CLIA, AABB, FDA, etc.) applications/updates, coordinates inspections and oversees responses to deficiencies from on-site inspections.

Benefits

• Generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.
• Up-front tuition coverage paid directly to the academic institution through the PEAK program.
• 100+ learning options to choose from, including undergraduate studies, high school diplomas, and professional skills and certificates.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree