Lead Clinical Laboratory Scientist - Saturday - Monday 6:00pm - 6:30am

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Position Overview

The Lead Clinical Laboratory Scientist provides leadership support to the technical lab staff. This role is responsible for being the workflow and troubleshooting point person in the technical lab, coordinate and conducts day-to-day activities in the laboratory to ensure timely and accurate testing. The Lead Clinical Laboratory Scientist works directly with the Clinical Laboratory Supervisor to anticipate and resolve issues related to efficiencies in throughput, staffing, and laboratory processes. This role is also responsible for verifying result release and pending list management and investigation. The Lead Clinical Laboratory Scientist is expected to spend at approximately half of their time performing laboratory testing on the bench.

Location: 650 Forward Drive

Essential Duties (include but are not limited to):

• Perform highly complex analytic processes without direct supervision. 
• Utilize routine and specialized automated and non-automated laboratory procedures and/or techniques after completing training and demonstrating competency according to established lab section operating procedures.
• Operate laboratory instruments, performs maintenance, as needed, and ensures proper functioning of laboratory equipment.
• Identify errors and problems, assists in troubleshooting instrument malfunction(s), and may assist service and support in performing preventive and corrective maintenance and repairs on laboratory equipment.
• Complete required maintenance activities on equipment, recognizes, and elevates potential issues to the team members responsible.
• Maintain records and documentation of maintenance.
• Calibrate laboratory instruments to ensure accuracy of test results. 
• Perform quality control procedures as specified and maintains quality control records and documentation necessary to meet the standards of accrediting agencies.
• Understand appropriate specimen collection, handling, and transport procedures.
• Prepare specimens for analysis and determines acceptability of samples within guidelines.
• Verify accuracy and enter data in the laboratory computer system, along with appropriate explanatory or interpretive information. 
• Assist the department supervisor in ensuring that all section turn-around times are maintained.
• Review and approve employee timecards as delegated by department supervisor.
• Conduct new employee interviews and participate in the hiring decision process as assigned.
• Validate acceptability of test results by review of quality control and all other test parameters.
• Identify the technical, instrumental, and/or physiologic causes of unexpected test results.
• Evaluate and calculate quality control statistics to assess accuracy, reproducibility, and validity of current laboratory methods.
• Monitor quality assurance and assists in data collection and preparation of quality assurance (QA) indicators.
• Perform internal and external proficiency testing and handle proficiency testing samples in the same manner as patient samples.
• Meet work product output expectations. 
• Understand and assist the Quality Control Specialist in performing lot to lot and analyzer to analyzer testing.
• Comply with all safety and hazard regulations as outlined in the Clinical Laboratory Safety Manual and ensures that all employees are following laboratory and regulatory guidelines.
• Utilize statistical methods to assess laboratory testing.
• Observe and demonstrate principles of data security and patient confidentiality. 
• Maintain ethical standards in the performance of testing and in interactions with patients, co-workers, and other health care professionals.
• Perform analytical and decision-making functions without direct supervision.
• Prioritize order of testing based on priority of request, workload, and testing schedules to meet turn-around times. 
• Coordinate general workflow in assigned area daily to ensure workload is satisfied.
• Differentiate technical, instrumental, and/or physiologic causes for unexpected test results.
• Resolve and document resolution of all quality control (QC) results which fail lab criteria and institutes corrective action.
• Evaluate instrument/method failure and determine when back-up methods must be initiated.
• Respond to technical questions of laboratory staff and