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Job Summary: The Lab Supervisor is responsible for microscopic tissue slides for diagnostic purposes; performs tissue stains to assist in diagnosis; handles specimen grossing; maintains laboratory and equipment.
Schedule: Monday - Friday, Day Shift hours, Covering Weekends as Needed
Essential Functions and Responsibilities
- Lead and direct other employees in the Laboratory
- Facilitates team processes by working in collaboration with team members to ensure that task priorities, goals and achievements are completed and coordination with management.
- Responsible for all aspects of operation in the histology area including preparation and maintenance of records, reports, analysis of testing methodologies, training, instrumentation, and compliance.
- The skills and techniques to prepare tissue for microscopic examination to establish and confirm patient diagnosis.
- Grossing and fixation, processing, embedding, sectioning, and staining.
- Tasks require attention to detail, advanced computer skills, mechanical ability and knowledge of biology, immunology, anatomy, and chemistry.
- Planning of day-to-day workload by setting the work pace, coordinating work assignments, identifying and solving problems and defining appropriate completion times.
- Distributes and balances workloads and tasks (including both Histotechs and Lab aides) among employees in accordance with established workflow, skill level and/or occupational specialties, making adjustments to accomplish the workload in accordance with established priorities to ensure timely accomplishments of assigned team tasks and ensuring that each employee has an integral role in developing the final team product.
- Filing blocks, slides, and requisitions.
- Accessioning and typing.
- Supply inventory management.
- Responsible for scheduling coverage for subsections within the work unit, adjusting their schedule in lieu of techs on day and annual leave as needed.
- Responsible for supervising and communicating with shifts and handling customer service at any time – 24/7 (even if not physically in the laboratory).
- Traveling to other locations/offices for lab related work as required.
- Creating and maintaining policies and procedures if any changes are required.
- Responsible for supervising all customer service in the laboratory.
- Responsible for coordinating with the laboratory courier service and resolving any issues or emergencies that arise with specimen pick-ups.
- Troubleshooting IT, IT interface and equipment.
- Responsible for coordinating with reference laboratories and troubleshooting issues.
Specific duties include:
- Accessioning, typing, specimen send outs and TC component send outs.
- Performing Grossing, Embedding, Microtomy and Staining.
- Accurate and timely preparation and staining of histology specimen.
- Using standard aseptic procedure and safeguards.
- IHC and Special Stains.
- Controlling contaminated specimen.
- Preparing slides.
- Controlling waste management.
- Ensuring equipment is operated and maintained according to manufacturer’s guidelines and ensuring supplies are adequate for the work to be performed.
- Maintaining accurate records for quality control, quality assurance and patient data.
- EMR-LIS related integration and solving troubleshooting.
- Assist office level customer service for pathology related issues.
- Following OSHA, HIPAA and CLIA guidelines.
Qualifications
- 2 years of lab supervisory experience required.
- Former Histotechnician II experience strongly preferred.
- Knowledge of programming and operation of general laboratory and automated JHC equipment.
- Research skills.
- Interpersonal/human relations skills.
- Ability to operate personal computer.
- Ability to approach problems/decisions analytically.
- Ability to maintain records.
- Ability to use microscope/cryostat, tissue processors, and stainers.
- Ability/willingness to adhere to the established departmental service standards.
