Laboratory Quality Assessment Coordinator

Where You’ll Work

Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center is an 1,045 bed facility located in the Texas medical center. A joint venture with Baylor College of Medicine, Baylor St. Luke’s is an internationally recognized leader in research and clinical excellence that has given rise to breakthroughs in cardiovascular care, neuroscience, oncology, transplantation, and more. The hospital is home to the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, a nationally-accredited and NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center. Our new McNair Campus is designed around the human experience—modeled on evidence-based practices for the safety of patients, visitors, staff, and physicians. The 27.5-acre campus represents the future of healthcare through a transformative alliance focused on leading-edge patient care, research, and education. 

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Blood Bank Quality Assessment Coordinator, you will work with the Laboratory Management Team to organize, plan, and coordinate Quality Assurance and Process Improvement activities.Every day you will utilize Lean design principles and apply best practices to enhance laboratory operations. You will also ensure that all sections of the laboratory are fully compliant with CAP, CLIA, Joint Commission, and any other applicable accreditation or regulatory agency standards.To be successful in this role, you will effectively drive continuous quality improvement initiatives, meticulously ensure regulatory compliance across all laboratory sections, and apply best practices to optimize laboratory processes.

• Evaluate laboratory workflow and processes. Identify and implement process improvement opportunities using LEAN and/or Six Sigma principles.
• Institute practice to gather staff feedback and ideas for process improvement
• Develop project plans to institute process improvements and track progress
• Hardwire process improvement through continuing education and feedback
• Work with Laboratory Director and Manager to track progress of process improvement initiatives
• Interpret and implement quality assurance standards, evaluate existing laboratory policies and procedures, and determine effectiveness of quality assurance program

Job Requirements

Required

• Bachelors Of Science in a chemical or biological science as defined by CLIA. and 2 years clinical lab experience as a Medical Technologist, upon hire and
• Blood Bank experience required

Preferred

• Two (2) additional years of experience in a laboratory quality assurance or process improvement role.
• International Medical Laboratory Scientist, upon hire or
• Blood Banking, upon hire or
• Chemistry - ASCP, upon hire or
• Clinical Laboratory Scientist, upon hire or
• Clinical Laboratory Technologist, upon hire or
• Technologist in Molecular Biology, upon hire or
• Medical Laboratory Scientist - Med Technologist, upon hire or
• Medical Technologist AAB, upon hire or
• Technologist in Microbiology, upon hire or
• Medical Technologist AMT, upon hire or
• Med Technologist - ASCP, upon hire or
• Specialist in Hematology, upon hire or
• Specialist in Microbiobiology, upon hire or
• Histotechnologist, upon hire