Medical Lab Tech Lead - Chemistry

Carle Health • Urbana, IL

11d • Onsite

About The Position

The Clinical lab Section Lead ensures that all activities initiated by the Core Lab Manager and Supervisor are completed in a timely manner. This role performs all essential functions of a Med Tech 3 in assigned sections, manages day-to-day work assignments, and ensures tasks for projects initiated by the Core Lab Manager and Core Lab Supervisor are complete. The Section Lead collaborates with the Core Lab Supervisor and lab staff to ensure the assigned lab section complies with regulatory requirements, provides feedback and suggestions to improve quality and performance, and offers input on performance evaluations as needed. The position requires adherence to laboratory procedures for specimen handling, processing, test analysis, reporting, and record maintenance, including proficiency testing samples. The role also involves maintaining quality control policies, documenting all quality control activities, instrument and procedural calibrations, and maintenance. The Section Lead follows established corrective action policies and procedures when test systems are outside acceptable performance levels and ensures proper documentation. Additionally, the role serves as a technical resource to assist staff in identifying and correcting problems that may affect test performance or reporting.

Requirements

• Medical Laboratory Scientist (MLS) (ASCP) - American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP); Medical Technologist (MT) (AMT) - American Medical Technologists (AMT); Medical Technologist (MT) (ASCP) - American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP); Medical Laboratory Scientist (MLS) (AMT) - American Medical Technologists (AMT)
• Bachelor's Degree: Biological Science; Bachelor's Degree: Clinical Laboratory Science
• 3yr Clinical lab operations

Responsibilities

• Performs all essential functions of a Med Tech 3 in assigned sections.
• Manages day to day work assignments.
• Ensures that all tasks for projects initiated by the Core Lab Manager and Core Lab Supervisor are complete.
• Collaborates with Core Lab Supervisor and lab staff to ensure assigned lab section complies with regulatory requirements.
• Provides feedback and suggestions to improve quality and performance.
• Provides input as needed on performance evaluations.
• Follows the laboratory's procedures for specimen handling and processing, test analysis, reporting and maintaining records of patient test results.
• Maintains records that demonstrate that proficiency testing samples are tested in the same manner as patient samples.
• Adheres to the laboratory's quality control policies, ensures documentation of all quality control activities, instrument and procedural calibrations and maintenance performed.
• Follows the laboratory's established corrective action policies and procedures whenever test systems are not within the laboratory's established acceptable levels of performance.
• Ensures proper documentation takes place.
• Serves as a technical resource to assist staff in identifying and correcting problems that may adversely affect test performance or reporting of test results.

Benefits

• Sign on Bonus Available!!! $10,000 greater than 1yr of experience
• $2,500 Relocation Bonus Available (greater than 50 miles) (external candidates only)
• Comprehensive benefits package

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level