**Overview**

Built-in 1973 Dignity Health Methodist Hospital of Sacramento is committed to providing daily excellence in health care for residents of Sacramento’s southern suburbs including the Elk Grove Wilton and Galt communities. Methodist Hospital is home to a 158 acute-care bed facility with 1120 employees 283 medical staff and 29 Emergency Department beds. Methodist Hospital also owns and operates Bruceville Terrace – a 171-bed sub-acute skilled nursing long-term care facility adjacent to the hospital that provides care for the elderly as well as those requiring extended recoveries. Methodist Hospital is home to the Family Medicine Residency Program an accredited and nationally recognized program which provides resident physicians with specialty training in primary care family medicine. Together the hospital and residency program implemented a ground-breaking curriculum addressing the identification treatment and assistance of human trafficking victims and created a one-of-a-kind health clinic for victims the Human Trafficking Medical Home.

**Responsibilities**

**Summary:**

Supervises laboratory personnel and operations to ensure compliance and quality in accordance with laboratory

work process. Exercises authority over personnel decisions and is responsible for the technical and scientific

oversight of the clinical laboratory department.

**Responsibilities:**

+ Supervises, coaches, and reviews the performance of laboratory personnel to ensure adherence to relevantpolicies and ethics.

+ Oversees designated laboratory day-to-day operations and exercises authority over personnel decisions

+ Analyzes and interprets laboratory results in accordance with established laboratory work processes

+ Administers laboratory inventories such as supplies, equipment and consumables

+ Selection of test methodology that is appropriate for the clinical use of the test results

+ Verification of the test procedures performed and establishment of the laboratory's test performance characteristics, including the precision and accuracy of each test and test system

+ Enrollment and participation in an HHS approved proficiency testing program commensurate with the services offered

+ Establishing a quality control program appropriate for the testing performed and establishing the parameters for acceptable levels of analytic performance and ensuring that these levels are maintained throughout the entire testing process from the initial receipt of the specimen, through sample analysis and reporting of test results

+ Resolving technical problems and ensuring that remedial actions are taken whenever test systems deviate from the laboratory's established performance specifications

+ Ensuring that patient test results are not reported until all corrective actions have been taken and the test system is functioning properly

+ Identifying training needs and assuring that each individual performing tests receives regular in-service training and education appropriate for the type and complexity of the laboratory services performed

+ Qualify and function as the CLIA defined Technical Consultant. Evaluating the competency of all testing personnel and assuring that the staff maintain their competency to perform test procedures and report test results promptly, accurately and proficiently

**Qualifications**

**Minimum Requirements:**

**Education and Experience:**

+ Bachelor’s degree in biological or chemical sciences, as defined by CLIA.

+ Minimum of five (5) years at a moderate or high complexity laboratory.

**Licensure:**

+ California Clinical Laboratory Scientist

**Knowledge and Skills:**

+ Job duties require administrative skill and leadership qualities. Familiarity with financialmanagement, Human Resources, Equipment Management, Quality Management, Physician Relations, Workflow Design are key skills to be successful.

+ Excellent communication skills are needed to influence staff and to support internal and external customers.

+ Extensive knowledge in state and federal regulations is needed to ensure ongoing compliance.

**Pay Range**

$34.50 - $48.72 /hour

We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.