Clinical Microbiologist Ii

TYPE OF RECRUITMENT

Open Competitive Job Opportunity

EXAM NUMBER

Y4920B

FILING START DATE

February 22, 2024 at 8:00 a.m., (PT)

Until the needs of the service are met and is subject to closure without prior notice.

SPECIAL SALARY INFORMATION:

Due to the Manpower Shortage Recruitment, new appointments and current incumbents shall be compensated at Step 7 of the applicable salary range and a shortage range of twenty percent. This is in effect until June 30, 2025 or until it is determined that a shortage no longer exists, whichever is sooner.

ABOUT LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES:

The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (DHS) is the second largest municipal health system in the nation. Through its integrated system of 25 health centers and four hospitals - and expanded network of community partner clinics – DHS annually provides direct care for 600,000 unique patients, employs over 23,000 staff, and has an annual budget of over $6.9 billion.

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Through academic affiliations with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of Southern California (USC), and the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Sciences (CDU), DHS hospitals are training sites for physicians completing their Graduate Medical Education in nearly every medical specialty and subspecialty. In addition to its direct clinical services, DHS also runs the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Agency and the County's 911 emergency response system, as well as Housing for Health and the Office of Diversion and Re-entry, each with a critical role in connecting vulnerable populations, including those released from correctional and institutional settings to supportive housing.

THE MISSION:To advance the health of our patients and our communities by providing extraordinary care.

DEFINITION:

Plans, organizes, directs, and evaluates the technical operations of a clinical microbiology laboratory.

• Consults with medical supervision or attending physician staff members to identify microbiological tests considered necessary to aid in the diagnosis of patient illness in a particular hospital setting.
• Analyzes requests for microbiological tests and determines what resources are necessary for their performance at various frequencies in terms of personnel, equipment, materials, and other items of supply.
• Decides whether the capability required for test performance at a projected frequency exists in-house and/or what action is necessary to produce such capability; initiates, with approval of medical supervisor, appropriate action to install tests in-house or arrange for performance at another laboratory.
• Determines what specific equipment, media, and other materials and supplies will be used in the performance of individual microbiological test procedures.
• Establishes the scope and nature of the quality control procedures necessary to assure the accuracy and reliability of test results, and continually monitors the performance of such procedures to assure their effectiveness.
• Analyzes and interprets laboratory data, maintains records under required standards for the laboratory, and prepares oral and written reports.
• Plans, develops, and conducts an on-going program of education and consultation with the attending physician staff and other healthcare professional staff to develop and increase their awareness and understanding of microbiology laboratory capabilities, resolve specific problems of microbial infection, and prevent epidemiological infection within the hospital.
• Complies with federal, state, and local regulatory requirements.
• Serves as a member of various hospital committees including the Infection Control, Antibiotic Stewardship, and Infectious Disease committee to establish and maintain clinical microbiology practices.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

A doctoral degree
* in medical microbiology or a closely related field from an accredited college or university -AND- One year of experience at the level of a Clinical Microbiologist I, assisting a clinical microbiologist supervisor to plan organize, direct, and evaluate the technical operations of a…