Laboratory Technical Supervisor

**Req ID**:163884**
**Company: Nova Scotia Health**
**Location**:Central** Zone, **Bayers Lake Community Outpatient Centre**
**Department**:PLM Pathology & Laboratory Medicine**
**Type of Employment**:Permanent** **Hourly FT** (**100%** FTE) x **1** position(s)**
**Status**:Management/Non Union** Position**
**Posting Closing Date**:8-Sep-23**

Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We’re on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centres and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators and creative thinkers today.

**About the Opportunity**:
Reporting to the Community Based Laboratories Technical Manager and working collaboratively with the Pathology and Laboratory Medicine management team and medical staff, the Technical Supervisor is responsible for the efficient, timely, cost-effective quality driven operation of the blood collection and specimen receiving/processing laboratory at Bayers Lake Community Outpatient Center in Central Zone. The Technical Supervisor:

- Ensures the provision of accurate test results to healthcare providers by effectively deploying and supporting the technical staff
- Ensures that equipment is properly serviced and maintained
- Ensures there are sufficient and appropriate materials available for specimen collection, processing, and transportation of specimens
- Ensures high standards of technical and safety procedures by constant evaluation and monitoring
- Supports and coordinates recruitment, training, performance evaluations and management
- Consults with, collaborates, and responds to patients, healthcare providers, outpatient clinics and other internal and external clients regarding delivery of services
- Informs decisions about the most efficient use of financial, human, and material resources while meeting operational needs and working within the appropriate policies and financial budgets
- Participates in short
- and long-term planning of responsibility, including planning for new, revised or expanded service
- Makes objective and respectful decisions consistent with policies, standards and objectives of the laboratory in an environment that involves consideration of patient safety and future needs of the organization
- Demonstrates good stewardship in the identification, reporting & mitigation of unsafe Acts or conditions
- Performs administrative functions such as scheduling, time capture and approval of overtime and vacation

**About You**:
We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

- Graduate of an approved program in Medical Laboratory Science or MSc. in relevant discipline
- Must be licensed with NSCMLT
- Certification with CSMLS is required
- Medical Laboratory Technologist with four (4) years progressively more responsible experience in a laboratory, plus completion of a management program or commitment to successfully complete a management program in three years and/or a combination of education, training, and progressively more responsible experience
- Previous management experience and direct supervision of staff in a laboratory setting is strongly preferred
- Expertise in pre analytical process including blood collection preferred
- Demonstrates leadership skills
- Excellent organization and decision-making skills
- Effective and respectful communication and interpersonal skills are essential
- Advanced computer skills and knowledge of Cerner Laboratory Information System (LIS) Is preferred
- Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred

Please ensure your resume is up to date and includes all relevant education, experience, training, and certifications.

**Hours**:

- Permanent, Full-Time position; 75 hours bi-weekly
- Travel is required

**Compensation and Incentives**:
$36.33 - $48.28 hourly

**Once You've Applied**

Thank you for your interest in this position. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

This is a Management/Non Union bargaining unit position. Preference is given to bargaining unit employees for unionized positions. Employees are encouraged to view their seniority hours and dates in their SuccessFactors online profile. Successful applicants changing unions, bargaining units or employment status, are advised to seek clarification regarding their seniority, benefits, and vacation entitlement and/or usage, prior to accepting the position.

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