Laboratory Director (CLIA High Complexity)

Laboratory Director (CLIA High Complexity)

Subspecialty (Specialty): General Immunology (Diagnostic Immunology), Routine (Chemistry), and Mycobacteriology (Microbiology)

Remote | Physician Office Laboratory (POL)

Job description

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

-Be accessible to the laboratory to provide onsite, telephone, or electronic consultation as needed.

-Ensure quality control (QC) and quality assurance (QA) programs are established, implemented, and maintained to monitor laboratory performance and promptly identify quality failures.

-Ensure that testing systems for all assays provide quality laboratory services across the pre-analytic, analytic, and post-analytic phases of testing.

-Ensure the establishment and maintenance of acceptable levels of analytical performance for each test system.

-Ensure verification and validation procedures are adequate to determine accuracy, precision, reportable range, and other pertinent performance characteristics of each method.

-Ensure laboratory facilities, environmental conditions, and safety practices are appropriate for the testing performed and provide a safe working environment for personnel.

-Ensure consultation is available to laboratory clients regarding the quality, interpretation, and clinical relevance of test results for specific patient conditions.

-Ensure that, prior to patient testing, all personnel:

Possess appropriate education and experience
Receive training commensurate with the complexity of testing performed
Demonstrate ongoing competency to reliably perform testing and report accurate results
-Ensure adherence to the Quality Assessment Policies and Procedures by all testing personnel, including:

Ongoing competency assessment
Identification of remedial training needs
Support for continuing education as necessary
-Perform a minimum of two (2) onsite laboratory visits per year, spaced at least four (4) months apart, and document findings as required.

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