Lab Team Leader - Microbiology

Cleveland Clinic•Cleveland, OH

7d•Onsite

About The Position

The Lab Team Leader serves as a lead and primary contact for laboratory operations, helping ensure work is completed efficiently and safely. The role provides day-to-day supervision or oversight, resolves technical problems under established laboratory policies and procedures, monitors analytic performance, and maintains competency and quality assurance documentation. The Team Leader also performs testing as needed, supports section planning and organization, helps monitor equipment and staffing standards, maintains technical procedures, and communicates relevant information to personnel who interact with the laboratory. The posting describes a night-shift position at Cleveland Clinic Main Campus in Cleveland. The schedule is listed in two conflicting ways: 11:00 p.m.–7:00 a.m. in the position details and 8:00 p.m.–4:00 a.m. in the job description. It states there are no call, weekend, or holiday requirements.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Chemical, Physical, Biological Clinical Laboratory Science, or Medical Technology from a four-year college or university.
Three to five years of clinical laboratory training or experience, or both, in high-complexity testing.
Clinical laboratory training or experience may be met by a combination of years of clinical laboratory training or experience.

Nice To Haves

Three to five years of clinical laboratory training or experience, or both, in high-complexity testing.
Two years in a clinical laboratory leadership role.
Microbiology experience.
MT (ASCP) certification or ASCP eligibility.

Responsibilities

Provide day-to-day supervision or oversight of laboratory operations.
Resolve technical problems according to policies and procedures established by the Laboratory Director or Technical Supervisor.
Monitor test analyses and specimen examinations to ensure acceptable analytic performance.
Maintain competency assessment documentation.
Immediately notify the Technical Supervisor, Clinical Consultant, or Laboratory Director of detected problems.
Perform duties of Testing Personnel as needed.
Perform laboratory testing in a compliant manner.
Maintain regulatory knowledge and awareness relevant to job duties.
Assist the manager with planning and organizing for the section.
Assist with monitoring capital equipment, staffing standards, procedure maintenance, and contingency-plan development and implementation to avert interruptions of service.
Maintain technical quality assurance programs, including accurate testing and quality control.
Maintain current standards and technical procedures manuals.
Ensure testing follows the production schedule and identify and resolve variances.
Ensure timeliness and communicate valuable information to departments and personnel who interact with the lab.