Moderate Complexity Lab Technical Consultant

Description

Position at MedMark Treatment Centers

Moderate and High Complexity Laboratory Director – Albuquerque, NM

The Laboratory Director position is responsible for the overall operation and administration of the laboratory, including the employment of competent personnel, equipment, safety, laboratory policies, quality assurance, all testing (including proficiency testing) and test reports. (42 CFR 493.1407 and 493.1445) The Director may, if qualified, perform the duties of the technical consultant, technical supervisor, clinical consultant, general supervisor, and testing personnel. Some duties may be delegated in writing to other qualified individuals. The Director must ensure that delegated duties are properly performed and must be accessible to provide onsite, telephone, or electronic consultation.

General Responsibilities

The Laboratory Director Must:

• Be accessible to the laboratory to provide onsite, telephone, or electronic consultation as needed.
• Ensure that the physical plant and environmental conditions are appropriate for the testing performed.
• Provide a safe environment that protects employees from physical, chemical, and biological hazards.
• Ensure compliance with applicable regulations (federal, state, accrediting agency).
• Verify that responsibilities that can be delegated are properly performed if they are delegated.
  
  

Procedural Responsibilities

The Laboratory Director Must:

• Ensure testing systems provide quality laboratory services for pre-analytic, analytic, and post-analytic phases of testing.
• Ensure test methods selected have the capability of providing quality results.
• Ensure verification procedures used are adequate to determine accuracy, precision, and other pertinent performance characteristics of the method.
• Ensure that reports of test results include pertinent information required for interpretation.
• Ensure that consultation is available to the laboratory’s clients on matters relating to the quality of the test results reported and their interpretation concerning specific patient conditions.
• Ensure that an approved procedure manual is available to all personnel.
• Ensure that laboratory personnel are performing the test methods as required for accurate and reliable results.
  
  

Personnel Responsibilities

The Laboratory Director Must:

• Employ a sufficient number of laboratory personnel with the appropriate education and either experience or training to provide appropriate consultation, supervision, and accurate performance of tests and reporting of test results.
• Ensure that only qualified personnel perform testing, and that prior to testing patient specimens, all personnel receive the appropriate training for the type and complexity of services offered, and demonstrate that they can perform all testing operations reliably to produce and report accurate results.
• Specify in writing the list of responsibilities and duties for everyone performing pre-analytic, analytic, and post-analytic phases of testing that states the level of activity each is authorized to perform, whether supervision is required, and whether consultant or director review is required prior to reporting patient test results.
• Ensure that policies and procedures are established for monitoring individuals who conduct pre-analytical, analytical, and post-analytical phases of testing to verify that they maintain competency to:
• Process specimens
• Perform test procedures.
• Report test results promptly and proficiently
• Identify needs for remedial training or continuing education to improve skills whenever necessary.
• Ensure that a general supervisor provides on-site supervision of high complexity test performance by testing personnel who have qualified by certain means.
  

Proficiency Testing Responsibilities

The Laboratory Director Must:

• Ensure that the laboratory is enrolled in an approved proficiency testing (PT) program.
• Ensure that PT samples are tested in the same manner as patient samples.
• Ensure that PT samples are tested in compliance with regulations prohibiting referral of specimens and communication or sharing of results.
• Ensure that PT results are returned on time to the PT program.
• Ensure that PT results are reviewed by the appropriate staff and a corrective action plan is followed when PT results are unsatisfactory.
  
  

Quality Control Responsibilities

The Laboratory Director Must:

• Ensure that a quality control program is established and maintained to identify failures in quality as they occur.
• Ensure the establishment and maintenance of acceptable levels of analytical performance for each test system.
• Ensure that remedial actions are taken and documented whenever significant deviations from the laboratory’s established performance characteristics are identified, and patient test results are reported only when the system is functioning properly.
  
  

Quality Assessment Responsibilities

The Laboratory Director Must:

• Ensure that a quality assessment program is established and maintained to monitor general, pre-analytic, analytic, and post-analytic laboratory activities in order to identify errors or potential problems that could lead to errors.
• Ensure that corrective actions are taken for identified errors, and that corrective actions are evaluated for their effectiveness and ability to prevent a recurrence.
• Remote access to onsite equipment and machinery to review samples and run tests.
• Other duties as assigned.
  
  

Essential Job Functions That Cannot Be Delegated

• Ensure quality services for all aspects of service.
• Ensure safe environmental conditions.
• Ensure Director approved procedures are available to staff.
• Employ sufficient number of employees with appropriate education/training.
• Write duties of CC, TC, TS, GS, TP (position descriptions)
• Ensure all delegated Director duties are properly performed.
• Ensure general supervisor provides onsite supervision as required for high complexity testing.
• personnel qualified under 493.1489(4)
• Ensure test performance only within the limitations of the clinical laboratory license.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Be a licensed MD/DO/DPM and
• Be certified in clinical pathology or
• Have one year of lab training during medical residency or
• Have two years of experience directing or supervising high-complexity testing
• Hold a doctoral degree in chemical, physical, biological, or laboratory science and be able to prove all the following:
• Be certified by an HHS-approved board.
• Have two years of lab training or experience.
• Have two years of experience supervising or directing high-complexity testing
  

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision and 401(K)
• Generous paid time off accrual
• Excellent growth and development opportunities
• Satisfying and rewarding work striving to overcome the opioid epidemic
  
  

Here Is What You Can Expect From Us:

MedMark Treatment Centers, a progressive substance abuse treatment organization is committed to the highest quality of patient care in a comfortable outpatient clinic setting. Our ultimate goal is to address the physical, emotional, and mental aspects of opioid use disorder to help each of our patients achieve long-term recovery and an improved quality of life.

MedMark Treatment Centers is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all Federal, State and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, natural origin, ethnicity, religion, gender, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship, genetic disposition, disability or veteran’s status or any other classification protected by State/Federal laws.