Lab Technologist 5 Position Available In Kings, New York

Lab Technologist 5 Department

OTHER CLINICAL LABS

Location
Brooklyn
Job

ID122849

Civil Service ClassificationNon Competitive
Hire In Rate$133,468.00 (for employees new to HHC) Salary Range$133,468.00 – $133,468.00 Pay FrequencyYear
Full/Part TimeFull-Time Regular/TemporaryRegular
Regular ShiftEvening About NYC Health + Hospitals Since 1875, South Brooklyn Health has established its reputation for clinical excellence and culturally competent care. It has designations as a Certified Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) Center, an Advanced Primary Stroke Center, an accredited Baby-Friendly Hospital, a U.S. News & World Report high performing hospital. The hospital’s staff is as diverse as the patients they serve. Interpreter services can be provided at any time of the day or night in over 130 languages. At NYC Health + Hospitals, our mission is to deliver high quality care health services, without exception. Every employee takes a person-centered approach that exemplifies the ICARE values (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence) through empathic communication and partnerships between all persons. Work Shifts 4:00 P.M – 12:00 A.

M Job Description Purpose:

Under the general direction of Laboratory Director, work as a core laboratory supervisor and responsible for but not limited to; bench work, rotating weekends/shifts, supervision of test performance by testing personnel, inventory management, staff scheduling and or other assigned duties required for smooth laboratory operations, patient safety and optimal patient care. Collaborates with other sections of the laboratory, as well as other departments within institution, to provide highest quality of care.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

The [Clinical Laboratory Technologist Lv V] is charged with and responsible for: 1. Supervising testing personnel, monitoring and ensuring that acceptable performance specifications are maintained, including review of quality controls, schedule instrument and equipment maintenance and other quality assurance activities as assigned.
2. Ensuring test system performance by initiating preventive and/or remedial actions when test procedures deviate from the laboratory’s established performance specifications and in the vent of nonconformances ensuring that test results are not reported until corrective action has been taken and the test is performing according to laboratory established performance specifications.
3. Verifying that personnel are trained and deemed proficient prior to performing testing on patient specimens independently, ensuring that staff have competency assessments as needed and ensuring action is taken when personnel do not perform as expected on competency assessments.
4. Compliance with policies and procedures, communication, including bringing problems and non-conformities to the attention of laboratory management, leadership and problem-solving capabilities, allocation of assets for effective daily laboratory operations and personnel management.
5. Following laboratory’s pre-analytic and analytic procedures and maintaining records of tests, maintaining records that demonstrate that proficiency testing samples are tested in the same manner as patient specimens.
6. Adhering to the laboratory’s quality assurance procedures, including documenting all quality control activities, instrument and equipment verifications, maintenance and preventive maintenance, following the laboratory’s policies and procedures whenever test systems are not within the laboratory’s established performance specifications, identifying and documenting problems that may adversely affect test performance, and notifying the supervisor, assistant director(s) or director ad documenting all corrective actions taken when test systems deviate from the laboratory’s established performance specifications.
7. Follows standard precautions, laboratory safety/infection control protocols, use appropriate PPE, decontaminate bench surfaces or equipment and does documentation as appropriate. Review of applicate test results daily and or in his/her next duty period.
8. Complies with patient safety/privacy and HIPAA rule, maintains environment of care standards, work on laboratory goals to prioritize safety/care of patients and respond to inquiries courteously, accurately and in a timely manner. Promote safe, cooperative and professional health care environment for patient/public health safety, optimal patient care, best laboratory practices, rules/regulations and demonstrates standards of performance and behaviors consistent. Coordinates department staffing and scheduling to ensure adequate shift and sill coverage and maintains laboratory and compliance records. Ensures adequate operating supplies, appropriate inventory management, specimen handling and management including all pre-analytical, analytical and post analytical processing, recording/tracking of specimens, monitors/checks and document expiration dates of materials used and does required documentation. Ensures Shift to shift communication to the staff and supervisors about pending tasks, ongoing compliance and tasks that needs to be accomplished in a timely manger to avoid safety and patient care issues for efficient laboratory operations.
9. Assist participate in performance appraisals and ensures performance appraisals are completed in a timely manner. Actively participate in performance improvement process of department/institution, develops, implements, and evaluates approved operations and procedures to achieve department/service line strategic goals. Knowledgeable about contents of policies and procedures relevant to scope of laboratory testing activities. Minimum Qualifications 1. Valid license as a clinical laboratory technologist, cytotechnologist, or histotechnologist issued by the NYSED. For Appointment to Levels IV and V 1. In addition to meeting the qualification requirement of Assignment Level II, candidates must also meet one of the qualification requirements of a laboratory supervisor as outlined in Title 10, Section 58-1.4 of the New York Public Health Law. 2. 58-1.4 Qualifications of laboratory supervisor. The laboratory supervisor must meet one of the following requirements: (a) The supervisor is a physician licensed to practice medicine or osteopathy in the State of New York or in the state or jurisdiction in which the supervisor practices or an individual who has earned a doctoral degree from an accredited institution with a chemical, physical or biological science as the supervisor’s major subject (accredited, as used herein, refers to accreditation by a nationally recognized accrediting agency or association, as determined by the United States Commissioner of Education), and either holds a certificate of qualification or qualifies as a clinical laboratory technologist as described in section 58-1.5 of this Subpart. The supervisor shall, subsequent to graduation, have had at least one year of pertinent experience in an acceptable laboratory. i. As used in this section, “acceptable laboratory” means a clinical laboratory or blood bank as defined in Section 571 of the Public Health Law, with a laboratory director who meets or would meet the requirements of Part 19 of this Title and where such facility meets or would meet the Department’s standards as outlined in this Subpart. This may include, but is not limited to: the anatomic and clinical pathology facilities of a hospital or health department; a testing unit of a university or medical research institution; an independent clinical laboratory or blood bank; a privately operated forensic testing laboratory; or a facility providing training and/or experience in the testing of human specimens.
(b) The supervisor holds a degree of Master of Arts or Master of Science from an accredited institution with a major in one of the chemical, physical or biological sciences, qualifies as a clinical laboratory technologist as described in section 58-1.5 of this Subpart, and, subsequent to graduation, has had at least two years of pertinent experience in an acceptable laboratory. (c) The supervisor is qualified as a clinical laboratory technologist pursuant to the provisions of section 58-1.5(b) of this Subpart and has had at least four years of pertinent experience in an acceptable laboratory subsequent to qualifying. (d) The supervisor is qualified as a cytotechnologist pursuant to the provisions of section 58-1.5(c) of this Subpart and subsequent to qualifying, has had at least four years of pertinent experience in cytotechnology in an acceptable laboratory having a doctoral level director qualified in cytopathology. The supervisor of a respiratory therapy technician shall be a licensed physician with one year of relevant experience or a respiratory therapist possessing a license issued by the New York State Education Department to practice as a respiratory therapist, if such license is required under Article 164 of the State Education Law, with four years of relevant experience.

Special Notes:

Qualifying experience is not limited to New York State.
Candidates that are solely licensed or issued permits to practice as cytotechnologists or histotechnologists may only be assigned work, including supervising personnel performing laboratory work, in a laboratory discipline/specialty appropriate to their license or permit. Candidates that are licensed or hold permits to practice as clinical laboratory technologists may be assigned work, including supervising personnel performing laboratory work, in all laboratory disciplines/specialties. How To Apply If you wish to apply for this position,