Mgr Laboratory
Role Overview
Provides management and operational oversight of the laboratory to ensure quality testing, fiscal targets, and volume-based staffing targets are met.
Ensures laboratory adherence to quality, safety, regulatory, certification, and accreditation standards.
Supports team member education and professional growth and connects individual roles to laboratory and organizational goals.
Key Skills for This Role
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About UVA Community Health
UVA Community Health is part of the UVA Health academic health system and provides care through community hospitals, outpatient locations, and provider offices.
Team members contribute to patient care decisions, support medical technologies, and promote community wellness.
Job Summary
Provides management and operational oversight of the laboratory to ensure quality testing, fiscal targets, and volume-based staffing targets are met.
Ensures laboratory adherence to quality, safety, regulatory, certification, and accreditation standards.
Supports team member education and professional growth and connects individual roles to laboratory and organizational goals.
Responsibilities
- Leads laboratory huddles, rounds on laboratory team members, conducts staff meetings, and manages staffing using workload volume reports.
- Manages supplies and FTE expense and supports continuous process improvement.
- Monitors laboratory resulting errors and participates in Laboratory Services committees and Laboratory Managers' meetings.
- Performs team member annual evaluations and collaborates with the Medical Director on performance indicators across testing processes.
- Maintains competencies, personnel files, policies, procedures, and regulatory checklists in MediaLab.
- Ensures EOC safety rounds are conducted weekly and laboratory safety guidelines are met.
- Leads CAP self-inspections and biannual inspections, develops corrective actions, and supports patient experience initiatives.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in medical technology, clinical laboratory science, or chemical, physical, or biological science from an accredited college or university.
- Technologist or Scientist certification from ASCP or AMT-MT, including an accepted specialty certification.
- Qualifies as a General Supervisor under CLIA 88 guidelines.
- Certification maintenance through the applicable ASCP BOC CMP or AMT CCP is required when applicable.
- Prior demonstrated leadership and knowledge of laboratory standards, information systems, equipment, safety, staffing, budgeting, and team development.
Preferred Qualifications
- Successful completion of a NAACLS-accredited Medical Technology or Medical Technologist program.
- Graduate degree in a healthcare-related field.
- Five to seven years of relevant laboratory technician and/or leadership experience.
- Specialist certifications from accreditation agencies.
Competencies
- Analysis and process improvement, including evaluating options, risks, costs, and benefits.
- Customer service, stakeholder relationships, and adapting service delivery to customer needs.
- Financial management of departmental tasks and resources to meet quality and budget requirements.
- Team building, conflict management, interpersonal relationships, delegation, communication, and adult learning.
Physical Demands and Other Conditions
The role requires constant standing, frequent walking and bending or stooping, and proficient communicative, auditory, visual, and written skills.
The role may require lifting, pushing, or pulling up to 100 pounds, with safe handling equipment for weights over 35 pounds.
Safety equipment such as a HEPA mask may be required for infection prevention.
On-call responsibilities are not required; travel between campus buildings, remote facilities, and out-of-town locations may be needed.
Compensation
- The base compensation range is $44.92 to $72.95 hourly, excluding applicable incentive compensation such as shift differentials and clinical ladders.
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