Manages the pathology laboratory services, which includes the cytology, surgical pathology, and autopsy services. Ensures staff provides highest quality, cost effective, patient focused services and care to members. Ensures compliance with local, state, and federal requirements. Implements and maintains clinical practice standards, budgets, and staff development.
Essential Functions:
- Supervises the pathology and cytology support staff and ensures they provide the highest quality of requirements.
- Assists the Chief of Pathology/Laboratory Director in developing, implementing, and maintaining pathology laboratory service standards to meet members' and internal clients' expectations.
- Identifies and recommends opportunities to improve departmental systems.
- Assists in Chief of Pathology/Laboratory Director in developing and monitoring budgets and resource allocations.
- Identifies strategies to reduce costs, control utilization, and improve quality of care and service. Hires, trains, and maintains staff competency.
- Monitors workflow and turnaround time.
- Presents in-service programs to the pathology staff.
- Monitors the quality control/assurance programs, evaluates test results, and equipment.
- Ensures specimen evaluations are accurate, thorough, and in compliance with accrediting requirements.
- Identifies and implements procedures to improve the accuracy of Pathology laboratory evaluations.
- May manage the pathology information system.
- Provides functional and administrative support to the Chief of Pathology and staff pathologists. Coordinates pathology and cytology support services.
- Manages the pathology hazardous waste program and ensures compliance with EPA, Cal-OSHA, and Federal OSHA regulations. Resolves human resource, employee and department safety, and risk management issues.
- May provide functional and administrative support for the Genetic Department Regional Fetal Pathology Program.
- Implements, and monitors pathology departmental policy and procedures to support the organization's goals and business objectives and ensure they are met.
- Provides some pathology services, as qualified and competent.
- For licensed Cytotechologist licensed personnel, this may include evaluating cytology specimens.
- For Certified Pathologist Assistant personnel, this may include preparing human surgical specimens for frozen section or gross description and dissection and preparing other biological specimens for further analysis.
- May assist with or perform post-mortems under supervision of a Pathologist.
- May prepare body for release.
- Performs other duties such as maintaining Pathology laboratory procedures and ensuring maintenance of equipment, documents, slides and supplies.
- Kaiser Permanente conducts compensation reviews of positions on a routine basis.
- At any time, Kaiser Permanente reserves the right to reevaluate and change job descriptions, or to change such positions from salaried to hourly pay status.
- Such changes are generally implemented only after notice is given to affected employees.
Secondary Functions:
- Coordinates and supports the department quality improvement process to maintain compliance and accreditation for all sites.
- Serves asCOPATH site coordinator and develops content expertise with the application.
- Utilizes, modifies, and develops as appropriate management and statistical reports for the department.
- Develops knowledge of support staff operations in the department and assists as necessary.
- Oversees operations at all CVA Pathology locations.
- Participates in the NCAL Pathology Quality and Compliance Peer Group.
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- Previous pathology or clinical laboratory supervisory experience required.
- Bachelor's degree in clinical laboratory science, or equivalent.
- California Cytotechnologist License with ASCP registration or California Clinical Laboratory Scientist (CLS) license; or Certified as a Pathologists' Assistant by the American Association of Pathologists' Assistants, the Board of Registry of the American Society for Clinical Pathology, or another national accrediting agency approved by CA DPH required.
- Knowledge of CAP, CLIA, Title 22, The Joint Commission, NCQA, and other local, state, federal regulations.
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Previous experience in a high volume acute care hospital pathology preferred.
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen.
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