Supervisor Point of Care Testing

City/State:

Bronx, New York Grant Funded:

No Department:

Path - Point Of Care Testing Work Shift:

Day Work Days:

MON-FRI Scheduled Hours:

8:30 AM-5 PM Scheduled Daily Hours:

7.5 HOURS Pay Range:

$120,000.00-$150,000.00

Montefiore Medical Center's Division of Clinical Pathology is responsible for the laboratory testing of blood, urine, and body fluids for disease diagnosis and health maintenance. Utilizing the latest advances in computer technology, the Division maintains millions of dollars of state-of-the-art automated equipment at its laboratory sites and services hospitals, nursing homes, the Montefiore Medical Group, faculty practices, and voluntary physicians' offices at more than 40 sites.

The Supervisor will supervise Point of Care testing according to regulatory criteria. Direct the operations of the Point of Care Testing program for the Montefiore Health System. Maintain and monitor tests including glucose, urine analysis, urine pregnancy, occult blood, rapid strep and other using JCAHO, NYS and CLIA guidelines. Oversee regulatory compliance for outpatient and in patient sites.

Essential Functions:

Set up documentation for point of care testing for each current and new site per NCCLS guidelines.

Establish criteria for licensing and performance testing of staff (Certification Program) and develop on-line testing program as partner of e-learning

Track personnel and site involved in training, schedule annual reviews of training and certification process

Travel to sites for training and review of point of care records

Develop and implement necessary accessioning and QC program for each POC test

Track monthly compliance with program for each site

Take corrective actions with non-compliant individuals through appropriate channels

Develop PT programs where they do not commercially exist

Comparative analysis of POC devices prior to implementing new devices

Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree required

Medical Lab Technologist training required

NYS Clinical Laboratory Technologist license required

4 years of bench experience (or 2 years’ experience with a Master’s degree) to qualify as a supervisor

Familiarity with Point of Care Testing instrumentation required

Knowledge of laboratory information systems required

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) required

Knowledge of trouble shooting devices and root cause analysis when issues are identified

The position is located in the Point of Care Testing lab at the Moses campus. The hours are Monday – Friday 8:30am – 5:00pm and will be on call on some weekends.

Montefiore Medical Center is an equal employment opportunity employer. Montefiore Medical Center will recruit, hire, train, transfer, promote, layoff and discharge associates in all job classifications without regard to their race, color, religion, creed, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, gender, actual or presumed disability, history of disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, pregnancy, military status, marital status, or partnership status, or any other characteristic protected by law.