Point of Care Coordinator

** Requisition number:
** 2344708

** Job category:
** Healthcare Delivery, Medical Screening/Clinical Lab

** Optum WA, (formerly The Everett Clinic) is seeking a Point of Care Coordinator to join our team in Everett, WA. Optum is a clinician-led care organization that is changing the way clinicians work and live.*
* ** As a member of the Optum Care Delivery team, you'll be an integral part of our vision to make healthcare better for everyone.*
* At Optum, you'll have the clinical resources, data and support of a global organization behind you so you can help your patients live healthier lives. Here, you'll work alongside talented peers in a collaborative environment that is guided by diversity and inclusion while driving towards the Quadruple Aim. We believe you deserve an exceptional career, and will empower you to live your best life at work and erience the fulfillment of advancing the health of your community with the excitement of contributing new practice ideas and initiatives that could help improve care for millions of patients across the country.

Because together, we have the power to make health care better for everyone. Join us and discover how rewarding medicine can be while  
** Caring. Connecting. Growing together.*
* The Point of Care Coordinator is a lead position within the clinical laboratory that is responsible for coordinating waived and moderately complex testing across multiple laboratory and clinic locations.  The Point of care coordinator provides technical resources and daily direction to all testing personnel outside of the core laboratories with regard to laboratory policies and procedures and regulatory requirements.  The Point of Care Coordinator assures quality testing and accurate test performance through operator training, competency assessment, equipment monitoring, equipment maintenance and troubleshooting, quality control review, and proficiency testing.  

This role requires strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills, as well as a demonstrated understanding of laboratory regulations and procedures.

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* Primary Responsibilities:

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* The duties listed below are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that could be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment.

+ Supervise staff, provide technical oversight, and ensure that all laboratory operations are conducted in compliance with CLIA, CAP, and other regulatory requirements

+ Ensures that test systems are properly functioning.  Maintains, troubleshoots, and takes corrective action with equipment and information systems as needed

+ Travel to each site at least quarterly

+ Coordinate training and competency assessments.  Develop and maintain training and competency materials

+ Provide primary support for on-site inspections and surveys. Participation in inspection readiness for appropriate regulatory and accreditation agencies

+ Write and maintain current procedure manual(s) in area(s) of expertise using an approved format.  Assist with the development, maintenance, and control of laboratory policies and procedures

+ Provide data to assist the department in budgeting and monitoring expenses as requested

+ Provider leadership for the testing, interpretation, and reporting of results

+ Review quality control for problem identification and troubleshooting.  Use quality control statistics and control procedures such as comparison between methods and results from proficiency testing to identify and/or correct performance problems

+ Develop and oversee validation and verification studies for new instruments, methods, and tests

+ Order, assign, and review proficiency testing (PT) scores and evaluations.  Facilitate corrective action and training related to PT failures.  Counsel and educate staff related to PT failures

+ Responsible for staying up to date with new technologies and methodologies.  Make recommendations to laboratory leadership

+ Assist with maintaining inventory and supplies related to point-of-care testing.  Assist with purchasing functions by interacting with supply chain buyers…