Point of Care Coordinator - Clinical Lab
Loyola

Employment Type:
Full timeShift:
Day Shift

Description:
Loyola Medicine, treating the whole person with compassion-to \"also treat the human spirit.\" The Laboratory Department seeks a Point of Care Coordinator to provide oversite for all Laboratory Point of Care Testing across LUHS region.
In this role, the Point of Care Coordinator (POCC) provides technical oversight for all Point of Care Testing (POCT) across the region. The POCC is responsible for the coordination and oversight of the quality improvement functions of point of care testing, education, auditing, competency, and other quality assurance activities to ensure that all accreditation guidelines are met.

Position Responsibilities

• Education: Across the region, performs quality checks on all compliance all regulatory requirements as well as institutional policies and procedures to maintain appropriate licensure and accreditation status for point of care testing.
• Point-of-Care Performance: Ensures the establishment of appropriate POC procedures throughout all phases of specimen handling, testing, resulting, and reporting. Serves as POC-testing resource and provides guidance and instruction in developing, monitoring, and maintaining testing sites' quality control programs to ensure the highest quality results to patients and physicians.
• Quality Improvement: Participates in preparation of testing procedures and provides regulatory updates as needed according to CLIA standards, CAP accreditation guidelines, and institutional requirements. Initiates procedure updates to meet regulatory bodies accreditation standards and compliance standards. Participates in training, orientation and ongoing continuing education of personnel using point of care testing resources. Maintains records for education, training, competency, quality control, nonconformance events, and corrective action.
• Provider Support: In coordination with the Regional Manager & Medical Director, evaluates and recommends new instruments, products, procedures and methods. Participates in validation / verification efforts and performs comparison studies as required by guidelines.

MAGIS & Service Excellence Accountabilities:

• Responsible for consistently demonstrating our MAGIS values of Care, Concern, Respect and Cooperation through teamwork and effective communication in an effort to prevent and solve problems and to achieve quality outcomes, patient safety, customer satisfaction and a safe environment.
• Responsible for developing and maintaining an environment of service excellence as outlined in the Service Excellence standards.

Position Requirements

Minimum Required:

Required: Bachelor's Degree

• 3-5 years of previous job-related experience
• Specify Degree(s): Medical Technology, Medical Laboratory Science, Biology, or Chemistry

Licensure/Certifications:

Preferred:

• Certified Medical Technologist, Medical Laboratory Scientist, laboratory discipline specific or
• specialty certificate (ASCP or AMT)

Computer Skills:

Required:

• Basic Keyboarding Skills
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Power Point
• Microsoft Word
• Preferred:
• EPIC
• Other: RALs/Telecor PeopleSoft

Required Skills:

• Ability to analyze and interpret data
• Ability to communicate verbally
• Ability to compose letters and memorandums
• Ability to deal calmly and courteously with people
• Ability to deal with stressful situations
• Ability to finish tasks in a timely manner
• Ability to follow oral and written instructions and established procedures
• Ability to function independently and manage own time and work tasks
• Ability to maintain accuracy and consistency
• Ability to maintain confidentiality
• Ability to plan, coordinate and develop multiple projects
• Other: Ability to meet requirement of rotating on-call coverage. Ability to travel between sites across region. Must have reliable mode of transportation.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Trinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.

Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.

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