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Clinical Laboratory Scientist (Quality Manager)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 4 days ago
On-site San Diego, CA $135K – $176K Apply by Sep 25, 2026 Clinical Laboratory Science INTP Healthcare
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This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP), a student loan payment reimbursement program. You must meet specific individual eligibility requirements in accordance with VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment. Program Approval, award amount (up to $200,000) and eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office after complete review of the EDRP application.
What You'll Do
- →Duties may include, but are not limited to: Ensures the laboratory maintains continuous readiness and supports the organization's performance improvement and patient safety programs.
- →Maintains a laboratory performance improvement program.
- →Ensures monitoring of components and customer feedback, and interacts with management officials and organizations involved in inter-laboratory quality assurance and proficiency testing.
- →Develops, implements, and performs quality management policy review.
- →Advises lab management on quality management concerns that could impact other services and assists with the necessary follow ups.
- →Identifies current lab functions needing improvement and develops a plan with associated individuals to implement change and monitor improvement.
- →Uses comprehensive knowledge for statistical evaluation and analysis and understands laboratory operations and the laboratory's relationship to the organization.
- →Follows laboratory quality control/assurance practices based on policies, procedures, and principles. evaluates and implements new techniques and procedures to address laboratory quality including development of validation plans in terms of equipment, method comparison, and establishment of reference intervals using statistical methods and theoretical knowledge.
- →Provides oversight, guidance, and advice to develop required quality assurance monitors and focused reviews.
- →Provides consultative services for laboratory-related root cause analysis, health care failure mode effect analysis, and sentinel events and develops action plans and outcome measures.
- →Establishes processes to monitor compliance with policies, identify patterns and/or trends, and ensure findings from quality management activities and performance improvement initiatives are used to redesign systems to improve quality.
- →Implements surveillance procedures to monitor variables that affect quality of services.
- →Evaluates, interprets, and teaches others to use quality control procedures and implement corrective actions.
- →Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 6:30 a/m. - 3:00 p.m.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓To be considered for this position, you must complete all required steps in the process.
- ✓In addition to the application and questionnaire, this position requires an online assessment.
- ✓The online assessment measures critical general competencies required to perform the job.
- ✓All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
Personality Fit
This role is commonly a great fit for these MBTI types:
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