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.

• Benefits Eligible:
  Yes
• Shift Details:
  Day Shift

• 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.

• Computer literacy
• Communication
• Regulatory knowledge
• Laboratory Techniques and Protocols
• Documentation
• Report writing
• Working Independently
• Critical thinking
• Driving

• 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

• Certification or training with quality assurance theory and tools
• Five years of technical laboratory experience

• 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.

Intermountain Health Intermountain Medical Center

Murray

Utah

40

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.

$39.16 - $60.42

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