What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lab Coordinator / Utica Park & Oklahoma Heart Institute Clinics position at Hillcrest Healthcare System?
Join our team as a day shift, full-time, Lab Coordinator for Utica Park & Oklahoma Heart Institute Clinics in Tulsa area, OK.
Why Join Us?
Thrive in a People-First Environment and Make Healthcare Better
Thrive: We empower our team with career growth opportunities, tuition assistance, and resources that support your wellness, education, and financial well-being.
People-First: We prioritize your well-being with paid time off, comprehensive health benefits, and a supportive, inclusive culture where you are valued and cared for.
Make Healthcare Better: We use advanced technology to support our team and enhance patient care.
Get to Know Your Team:
- Utica Park Clinic, founded in 1982, is a multi-specialty medical group with more than 300 employed physicians and advanced practice providers representing over 25 specialties across 80 plus clinics in Oklahoma.
Explore Career Pathways for Laboratory Professionals:
The Laboratory Coordinator leads and participates in quality assurance, performance improvement, laboratory education, new employee training and coordinating efforts within their assigned area.
- Oversees non-technical areas within laboratory operations. This may include but is not limited to; billing, inventory management, quality, outreach.
- Promotes professionalism and interacts with colleagues in a way that promotes a cooperative working environment.
- Displays expertise necessary to ensure optimal laboratory operations.
- Demonstrate proper communication skills to relate pertinent data or information related to the job duties assigned.
- Supports organizational priorities to maintain compliance with regulatory and accreditation standards.
- Exhibits problem-solving skills to troubleshoot and evaluate opportunities within the laboratory.
- Able to prioritize and organize workload and assist other coworkers to maintain productivity.
- Promotes consensus building and applies techniques of conflict resolution and conduct improvement.
- Retains accountability for quality of care given to the patient.
- Promotes service excellence and growth of the laboratory.
- May work with multiple departments within the laboratory or across the hospital/health system, including all of the Utica Park and Oklahoma Heart Institute Clinics.
Responsible for technical and scientific oversight for physician office laboratories. Selects test methodology appropriate for the clinical use of the test menu.
Verifies test procedures performed and establishes the lab’s performance criteria and documentation manuals.
Enrolls labs in an approved PT program commensurate with services offered.
Establishes a QC/QA program appropriate for testing performed and establishes the parameter for acceptable levels of analytic performance.
Resolves technical problems and ensures remedial actions are taken as needed. Ensures testing personnel receive initial and ongoing in-service training.
Job Requirements:
- High School diploma or equivalent.
Preferred Job Requirements:
- Experience working in the clinical laboratory setting
- Associates or Bachelor's degree in health sciences field highly preferred.
- Prior phlebotomy experience.