Laboratory Manager

Position: Laboratory Manager

Location: Miami Lakes, FL Schedule: Full Time

Our hospital is a critical illness recovery hospital committed to providing world-class inpatient post-ICU services to chronic, critically ill patients who require extended healing and recovery. Each employee plays a vital role in doing that by living our cultural behaviors - celebrating success, owning the future, being patient-centered, creating change, thinking first and building trust.

At our company, we support your career growth and personal well-being.

• Start Strong: Extensive orientation program to ensure a smooth transition into our setting.
• Recharge & Refresh: Generous PTO for full-time team members to maintain a healthy work-life balance
• Your Health Matters: Comprehensive medical/RX, health, vision, and dental plan offerings for full-time team members
• Invest in Your Future: Company-matching 401(k) retirement plan, as well as life and disability protection for full-time team members
• Your Impact Matters: Join a team of over 44,000 committed to providing exceptional patient care

The Laboratory Manager is responsible for having a working knowledge of all areas of laboratory services, including pre-analytical, analytical, and post analytical processes.

• Ensures laboratory practice and documentation meets the requirements set forth by CMS,TJC, and State regulatory agencies.
• Remains accessible to testing personnel at all times testing is performed to provide on-site, telephone, or electronic support.
• Provides day to day supervision of testing personnel.
• Monitors test analytes and specimen examination to ensure acceptable levels of analytic performance are maintained.
• Fulfills responsibilities as delegated by the lab director and/or technical supervisor.
• Resolves technical problems and ensuring corrective actions are taken whenever test systems deviate from the laboratory's established performance specifications.
• Ensures patient test results are not reported until all corrective actions have been taken and the test system is functioning properly.
• Provides orientation, training and verifies competencies for all testing personnel.
• Evaluates and documents the performance of all testing personnel as required.
• Evaluates and documents the performance of all individuals responsible for testing upon hire, within six months, at twelve months and then annually thereafter.
• Enrolls the laboratory in an approved Proficiency Testing program commensurate with services offered. Participates in testing and maintains acceptable results within procedural guidelines.
• Establishes a Quality Control Program appropriate for the testing performed, and establishes the acceptable levels of analytic performance, participates in testing, and ensures these levels are maintained throughout the testing process. Performs and verifies test procedures and establishes the laboratory performance criteria, including accuracy and precision of each test and test system.
• Follows laboratory requirements for daily instrument preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, calibrations, quality controls, and proficiency testing with documentation.
• Checks and records Laboratory temperature daily with corrective action plan when temperature deviates from the norm.
• Maintains close communication with the lab director and meets on a routine basis for review of lab practices and results.
• For ARU locations - Floating between CIRH and IRH units as needed.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Requirements If functioning as the technical consultant in addition to the Lab Manager, Must meet the following: Current professional license in state of practice, AND

Licensed MD/DO/DPM and (Certified in anatomic or clinical pathology OR possess 1 year lab training or experience)

OR possess a Doctoral or Master's Degree in Lab Science AND 1 year lab training or experience OR possess a Bachelor's degree in Lab Science or Respiratory Therapy AND 2 years lab training or experience

If functioning as the Lab Manager only, Must meet the following: Current professional license in state of practice, AND

Bachelors Degree in Lab Science AND 2 years lab training or experience Bachelors Degree in Respiratory Therapy or Cardiovascular Technology and 1 year training or experience, OR

Associate Degree in Respiratory Therapy and 2 years training or experience