Job Title: Lab Coordinator
Department: Nursing
Location: Alamosa
Position Type: Full-Time
Pay Unit: Hourly

Pay Range: Hourly – Min: $18.50 – Max: $23.63 (based on qualifications and experience)

Benefits:

• Health, Dental, Vision Insurance, HRA, FSA, DCA, Retirement Plan
• Aflac – Group Accident, Group Critical Illness, Hospital
• MASA – Employer paid Air Ambulance Coverage
• Paid Leave: Vacation – 10 days accrued/year, Sick – 12 days accrued/year, Holidays – 8 days/year
• (Benefits after one year of employment.) Retirement Match, Employer paid Basic Life, LTD, STD

Position Summary: To oversee and implement lab protocols for Valley-Wide Health Systems, Inc. system of care. This encompasses all VWHS facilities conduction lab services. Assists in developing, implementing, and assisting in the enforcement of safety guidelines, policies and procedures to assure compliance with accrediting bodies and provide supporting data for quality assurance. Must foster a culture of patient and family centered care, service, quality and safety excellence, while improving patient experience, employee experience and community relations.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

1. Establish and updates laboratory policies and procedures.

• Responsible for education on all CLIA testing controls for all nursing/ MA staff.
• Lab skills and quality control evaluation on all nursing staff upon hire, at 3 months and annually.
• Order API proficiency testing for Provider Performed Microscopy annually.
• Coordinates and implements new projects assisting with policies and procedures development/revision (Point of care testing (POC), sterilization, evidence-based education
• Prepares and maintains a variety of records and reports as requested
  • Data collected, analyzed with guidelines initiated as appropriate
• Update and maintain the lab manual ensuring current information is uploaded to the online manual.
• Complete POC quality controls on new shipments of testing supplies
• Attend Clinician Lab Committee meetings with agenda participation
• Collaborates with purchasing staff and Infection Control on cost effective tools best used in the clinical setting impacting patient care and outcomes
• Works closely with Infection Control on lab protocols, standards and CLIA requirements
• Other duties as assigned

2. Provide staff education and support

• Travel to all clinical sites on regular basis
• Shadows new hires in the clinic at 3-months to assess competency
• Train all new hires on the lab manual, sterilization procedures, spore testing, point of care tests and controls.
• Lab e-learning, tracking completion/Health Stream
• Coordinate staff training to ensure compliance with CLIA, NPSG AAAHC

Knowledge, skill and ability:

• Intermediate level computer skills, specifically Microsoft office applications
• Basic knowledge of electronic health records
• Two years experience working in health care
• Knowledge of basic safety standards, OSHA and sterilization

Education and Formal Training:

• High School Diploma or Equivalent

Experience:

• Two years of experience working in health care

Qualities and Characteristics:

• Maintains a professional relationship and positive attitude with co-workers and patients
• Ability to communicate with staff at all levels
• Displays enthusiasm toward the work and the mission of the organization
• Flexibility
• High degree of accuracy, attention to detail, and follow through

Working Conditions and Physical Environment:

Job duties are performed in a generally clinic environment, may require more than the usual physical effort in the office (e.g., lifting small boxes or equipment), or prolonged movement (e.g., standing).

Blood/Fluid Exposure Risk:

X Category I: Tasks routinely involve a potential for mucous membrane or skin contact exposure to blood, fluids or tissue. Use of personal protective equipment (PPE), when appropriate, is required.

Applications must be submitted by: 01/23/2023

Valley-Wide Health Systems, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer:

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors.

Employee Rights Under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)