What are the responsibilities and job description for the Supervisor I, Clinical Laboratory position at Brigham and Women's Hospital?
The Clinical Supervisor I, in their role as Testing Personnel as defined by CLIA, may perform waived and non-waived testing.
Each individual performs only those tests that are authorized by the Laboratory Director and require a degree of skill commensurate with the individual's education, training or experience, and technical abilities.
Under the general direction of The Laboratory Managers and Medical Director, is responsible for staff orientation, training and competency assessment, and daily supervision of work activities of personnel.
Provides daily supervision of technical, clerical, and service employees.
- Plans, organizes, delineates, and schedules duties and responsibilities of Laboratory staff in conjunction with the Laboratory Managers.
- Assists other technologists as needed in technical problems and interpretation of results.
- Determines priority of work at the laboratory, assuring timely completion of work.
- Is responsible for ordering and maintaining an appropriate level of inventory and laboratory supplies.
- Maintains manuals on all Standard Operating Procedures and required records and reports.
- Responsible to assure staff adhere to all safety policies and procedures.
- Responsible for orientation, training and competency assessments, assuring staff :
- 1. Follow the laboratory's procedures for specimen handling and processing, test analyses, reporting and maintaining records of patient test results.
- 2. Maintain records that demonstrate that proficiency testing samples are tested in the same manner as patient samples.
- 3. Adhere to the laboratory's quality control policies, document all quality control activities, instrument and procedural calibrations and maintenance performed.
- 4. Follow the laboratory's established corrective action policies and procedures whenever test systems are not within the laboratory's established acceptable levels of performance.
- 5. Be capable of identifying problems that may adversely affect test performance or reporting of test results and either must correct the problems or immediately notify the general supervisor, technical consultant, technical supervisor, clinical consultant or director; and
- 6. Document all corrective actions taken when test systems deviate from the laboratory's established performance specifications.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
a. FISH analysis : specimen processing; analyze metaphases or interphase nuclei and record hybridization patterns; capture representative images at the fluorescence microscope workstation
b. Chromosome analysis : initiation and maintain of cell cultures using sterile technique; specimen processing; operate automated cell scanner; analyze metaphases using brightfield microscopy, record raw data, prepare final karyograms and record current ISCN.
Physical Requirements
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