CHA Career Center
Posted: 13-Jan-23
Location: Wheat Ridge, Colorado
Salary: Open
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Internal Number: 21043

You.
You bring your body, mind, heart and spirit to your work as a Phlebotomy / Sterile Processing Supervisor.
Youâ™re generous with your thoughts, your partnerships and especially your voice, because your opinion matters.
Youâ™re equally comfortable with laboratory day-to-day operations, quality improvement initiatives, and human resources management.
Youâ™re great at what you do, but you want to be part of something even greater. Because you believe that while individuals can be strong, the right team is invincible.
Us.
Lutheran Medical Center is part of SCL Health, a faith-based, nonprofit healthcare organization that focuses on person-centered care. Our 249-bed community-based hospital provides comprehensive, specialty care to the poor, the vulnerable, our communities and each other. Dating back to 1905, we are proud of the rich history and inspiring mission our hospital has embodied for over 110 years.
Benefits are one of the ways we encourage health for you and your family. Our generous package includes medical, dental and vision coverage. But health is more than a well-working body: it encompasses body, mind and social well-being. To that end, weâ™ve launched a Healthy Living program to address your holistic health. Healthy Living includes financial incentives, digital tools, tobacco cessation, classes, counseling and paid time off. We also offer financial wellness tools and retirement planning.
We.
Together weâ™ll align mission and careers, values and workplace. Weâ™ll encourage joy and take pride in our integrity.
Weâ™ll laugh at each otherâ™s jokes (even the bad ones). Weâ™ll hello and high five. Weâ™ll celebrate milestones and acknowledge the value of spirituality in healing.
Weâ™re proud of what we know, which includes how much there is to learn.
Your day.
As a Phlebotomy / Sterile Processing Supervisor you need to know how to:
- Supervise the technical and operational management of the Laboratory Operations, Specimen Processing, and Send-out Testing areas. Collaborate with department leadership team to evaluate service needs and volumes and adjust staffing levels accordingly. Assign daily work schedules. Act as a resource technician in the daily operations and activities of the department. Perform duties of phlebotomy and specimen processing as required.
- Develop, implement and train on new technology for department. Direct and coordinate training of new employees. Oversee supply and equipment inventory to maintain optimal supply levels and ensure equipment repairs and preventative maintenance occur in a timely manner.
- Support the department leadership team in problem solving to address issues relating to patient safety, care and service. Promotes effective working relations and work effectively as part of a department/unit team and interdepartmentally to facilitate that departmentâ™s ability to meet its goals and objective. Ensure coordination of care with other departments to promote the highest level of patient care and satisfaction.
- Assist with Human Resource management functions including interviewing, selection, orientation, education/training, feedback, performance evaluation, and policy and procedure development. Assist in updating and maintaining personnel files. Ensure associate competency. Maintain and monitor Kronos records for employees. Present and document staff meetings as required. Assist in development of capital planning and operating budgets.
- Manage send outs for specialty testing to reference labs. Coordinate communication with physician. Manage test compendium application for the care site.
- Collaborate with the department leadership team to identify and drive quality and performance improvement initiatives. Ensure compliance with applicable regulatory guidelines and established departmental policies and procedures, objectives, quality assurance program, safety, environmental and infection control standards. Maintain section readiness for Joint Commission, CAP or CLIA inspections.
Your experience.
We hire people, not resumes. But we also expect excellence, which is why we require:
- High School Diploma or equivalent, required
- Minimum of three (3) years of phlebotomy experience, including previous formal/informal lead experience, required (an Associateâ™s Degree may substitute up to one (1) year of the required phlebotomy experience and a Bachelorâ™s Degree may substitute up to two (2) years of the required phlebotomy experience)
- Current Phlebotomy certification, preferred
- Current Medical Technologist (MT) certification through ASCP, preferred
Your next move.
Now that you know more about being a Phlebotomy / Sterile Processing Supervisor on our team we hope youâ™ll join us. At SCL Health youâ™ll reaffirm every day how much you love this work, and why you were called to it in the first place.
