Lab Quality Assurance Coordinator

Job Description:

Under the direction of the CLIA Laboratory Director and Lab Quality Management, the Quality Assurance Coordinator supports a comprehensive QA/QM program which assures compliance with all applicable regulatory accrediting agencies and responding with any needed corrective action.

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Benefits Eligible:
Yes Shift Details:
Days

Essential Functions:

Promotes and supports the One Intermountain philosophy.

Developing and implementing a standard quality program.

Oversite of document control and SOP development, review and updates.

Monitoring and ensuring adherence to laboratory training and competency program.

Ensuring improved, system-wide integration of policies, procedures and competencies.

Keeping current on regulatory and compliance issues and communicating updates and changes to laboratory leadership.

Tracking and reporting errors, KPIs, system monitors and metrics through auditing and implementing quality improvement tools.

Oversite of lab applications related to error management, quality assurance and education.

Supports lab leadership in proficiency testing, validations, correlations, calibrations, instrument implementation, error documentation, root cause analysis and change control.

Supports and manages accrediting body (i.e. CAP, CLIA, AABB, FDA, etc.) applications/updates, coordinates inspections and oversees responses to deficiencies from on-site inspections.

Skills:

Computer literacy

Communication

Regulatory knowledge

Laboratory Techniques and Protocols Documentation Report  writing

Working Independently Critical thinking

Driving

Minimum Qualifications:

Associate or bachelor’s degree in a chemical, biological or clinical laboratory/medical laboratory science. Education must be obtained through an accredited institution. Degree will be verified.

MLT/MLS(ASCP) certification or equivalent

Three years of technical laboratory or laboratory quality assurance experience

Preferred Qualifications:

Certification or training with quality assurance theory and tools

Five years of technical laboratory experience

Physical Requirements Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, documents, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess customer needs.

Frequent interactions with providers, colleagues, customers, patients/clients and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, needs, and issues quickly and accurately.

Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate supplies and equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use for typing, accessing needed information, etc.

For roles requiring driving:
Expected to drive a vehicle which requires sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles.

Location:

Intermountain Health St Vincent Regional Hospital Work City:

Billings Work State:

Montana Scheduled Weekly

Hours:

40

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.$39.16 - $60.42

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