What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lab Manager position at SSM Health?
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Job Highlights:
SSM Health is seeking a Lab Manager to join our Laboratory Team! This position is a Full-time, Day shift role.
Requirements are as follows:
If you have a Bachelor's degree, you will need Five years' technical experience in a laboratory setting including two years' concurrent supervisory experience.
If you have a Master's degree or higher, you will need Three years' technical experience in a laboratory setting including two years' concurrent supervisory experience.
SSM Health offers competitive wages and comprehensive benefits packages including PTO, Dental, Vision, Short and Long Term Disability and much, much more!
If you are eager to begin a new journey in your career, please apply today!
Job Summary:
Under general direction, manage the operations of assigned area(s) by acting as a technical advisor and by managing employees. Ensures appropriate resources, sets direction and manages employee performance.Job Responsibilities and Requirements:
- Prioritizes the daily workflow by coordinating and delegating daily technical operations.
- Manages or works directly on projects of moderate to complex scope.
- Selects, schedules, and assigns staff, adjusting hours and shifts as necessary.
- Evaluates activities of assigned area(s) to ensure patient care, staff relations, and efficiency of service.
- Ensures compliance with QA/QC standards required by laboratory regulatory agencies.
- Makes recommendations regarding the development of policies, goals and objectives.
- Implements unit or clinic policies, goals, and objectives.
- Monitors department financial performance.
- May function in the Laboratory Director capacity during the absence of the Laboratory Director.
- Acts as laboratory liaison to other departments.
- Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
EDUCATION
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of experience and education
EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor's degree: Five years' technical experience in a laboratory setting including two years' concurrent supervisory experience. Master's degree or higher: Three years' technical experience in a laboratory setting including two years' concurrent supervisory experience.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
- Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
- Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
- Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
- Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
- Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
- Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
- Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
- Rare climbing.
Licenses / Certifications:
Clinical Laboratory Scientist (CLS) - American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), Medical Laboratory Scientist (MLS) - American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), Medical Technologist (MT) - American Association for Bioanalysts (AAB), Medical Technologist (MT) - American Medical Technologists (AMT), Medical Technologist (MT) - American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP)Work Shift:
Day Shift (United States of America)Job Type:
Department:
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