Join our team of Life Changers! Magee - Women's Hospital of UPMC is hiring a Full Time Supervisor, Phlebotomy. This position will work daylight shifts. This position covers 3 sites (Magee, Montefiore, and Falk Medical Building). Excellent benefits, a pleasant work environment, and friendly team are just a few of our perks. Apply today!

Purpose:

Day to day leadership is provided to the clinical laboratory specimen procurement and client services team in support of the hospitals desire to achieve a high level of customer satisfaction. Provides support to the client services team including the performance of staff duties to cover vacancies in the schedule as needed. Responsible to maintain a staff schedule to provide coverage in all areas of responsibility to meet patient care needs. Assists with the planning, development, and monitoring of quality assurance initiatives to support patient care and safety.

Responsibilities:

Maintains a schedule to provide coverage to meet patient care needs. Procures appropriate specimens by venipuncture, heelstick and fingerstick following established procedures including proper patient identification procedures. May collect samples other than blood, as required. Specimen collection may be performed at off-site locations, as required. Performs all responsibilities according to the philosophy of the UPMC Health System such that the needs of our customers are fulfilled. Trains and orients new employees and students. Performs staff performance evaluations and administers corrective action, as required. Responsible for maintaining and updating specimen procurement policies and procedures. Demonstrates dependability, reliability, and independent judgment recognizing priorities to accommodate department needs and acceptance of appropriate authority. Promotes patient safety. Interacts with all laboratory customers courteously and professionally; responds to telephone inquiries in a timely manner. Develops quality initiatives to improve process and provide customer satisfaction. Assists in determining level of customer satisfaction through various metrics. Accurately registers patient demographic information and laboratory test orders into the information system(s), while ascertaining adequacy of patient information. Informs technical staff, supervisory personnel and/or pathologists of any unusual or problematic incidents. Instruct patients on the collection procedures for laboratory specimens that are obtained by the patient. Adheres to established laboratory and hospital policies in areas of procedures, methods, quality control, quality assurance, safety, compliance and personnel policies.