Job Details:

The Lead Clinical Lab Technologist supervises Laboratory staff and operations to ensure that patient testing occurs in a timely and satisfactory manner. This position is responsible for workflow technical and patient issues, acts as a technical consultant for technical and patient issues, and coordinates lab instruments and maintenance. The lead technologist functions as a testing technologist for the majority of the time. The testing menu for this facility is limited to general chemistry and general hematology.

Responsibilities:

• Performs testing and accurately results and reports per regulatory standards.
• Complies with safety standards.
• Organizes, plans, and directs operational processes, staff scheduling, workflow, human resource issues, and staff development; oversees the performance and quality improvement initiatives for areas of responsibility.
•  Develop, establish, and ensure implementation of procedures.
•  Understands and complies with regulatory standards.
•  Performs Quality Control tasks.
•  Troubleshoots as necessary.
• Performs proficiency testing and schedules other technologists for proficiency testing as per regulatory standards.
• Ensures the daily review of patient test results and quality reports.
• Ensures and maintains adequate supplies and reagents.
• Ensures the performance of linearity studies, correlations and routine and emergency maintenance of laboratory instrumentation and methodologies as per regulatory standards.
• Participates in Quality Improvement initiatives.
•  Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications/Requirements:

Experience:  Minimum of 6 years of experience as Clinical Lab Technologist required. Computer skills to include word processing and spread sheets using Microsoft Word and Excel preferred.

Education: Bachelor’s Degree required.

Licenses / Certifications: NY State Education Department license a Clinical Laboratory Technologist required; National registration (NCA/ASCP) preferred.

Other: Leadership skills in a customer-oriented environment preferred.

Special Requirements: N/A

About Us:

Good Samaritan Hospital

Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern, NY, is a 286-bed hospital providing emergency, medical, surgical, obstetrical/gynecological and acute-care services to residents of Rockland and southern Orange counties in New York; and northern Bergen County, NJ. The hospital is home to a recognized cardiovascular program, comprehensive cancer-treatment services, the area’s leading Wound and Hyperbaric Institute and outstanding maternal/child services that includes a Children’s Diagnostic Center. Good Samaritan Hospital also provides social, psychiatric and substance-abuse services and its certified home-care agency supports residents of the Hudson Valley and beyond.