The incumbent provides authoritative consultative services to management at all levels of the organization as it applies to safety management and inventory management in a clinical laboratory setting. Maintains a laboratory performance safety program and ensures monitoring of components. Maintains laboratory supplies and equipment in a manner as to provide safety and efficiency of laboratory operations. Maintains the laboratory facilities and equipment and controls supplies.

Duties

Ensures laboratory adheres to all practices and regulations related to workplace safety. Performs and documents periodic safety inspections. Acts as Chemical Hygiene Officer for Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Service. Develops and maintains current safety, emergency management, infection control, environment of care and chemical hygiene standard operating procedures. Ensures Laboratory Safety policies and procedures are consistent with accrediting agencies standards and requirements. Ensures Pathology and Laboratory Medicine employees have received safety training and maintains documentation. Documents accidents and recommends improvements. Represents laboratory on appropriate medical center committees; chairs Laboratory Safety Committee; and interacts with other medical center staff, such as the industrial hygienist, infection control officer, biomedical engineers, fiscal service and acquisition and material management staff. Documents product recalls and corrective action affecting laboratory instruments, regents, and supplies. Develops operating and performance standards for supply functions within the clinical laboratory that promote efficiency, accuracy, and safety. Performs staff managerial or administrative work concerned with analyzing, developing, evaluating, or promoting improvements in the policies, plans, methods, procedures, systems, or techniques of a laboratory safety program. Prepares and analyzes reports on supply program status. Incumbent is responsible for management reports such as the cost distribution report, budget analysis for the entire clinical lab or a specific area, etc. Responsible for the ordering and delivery of supplies, tracking and trending of supply usage, equipment inventory listing accuracy, and for the tracking and trending of all fund controls within the clinical laboratory. Determines, regulates, and controls the level or flow of expendables/non expendables supplies or class of materials. Responsible for maintaining stockrooms including refrigerator/freezer space for supplies and consumables. Uses a range of well-established and commonly applied supply principles, concepts, and methodologies to determine need to intervene in supply system in response to fluctuations in rates of usage, cost, availability from established suppliers, alternative sources of supply and other similar conditions. Incumbent is an authorized user of the Government Purchase Card. As an authorized user of this card the incumbent is responsible for meeting the standards for documentation and reconciliation of the purchase cards as set forth by VA Handbook 1730.1, Use and Management of Government Purchase Card, dated August 27, 2008. Serves a Contacting Office Representative for PALM contracts. Work Schedule: Full Time, Monday-Friday 7:00am-3:30pm Telework: Not Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Functional Statement #: Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Requirements

Qualifications

Applicants pending the completion of educational or certification/licensure requirements may be referred and tentatively selected but may not be hired until all requirements are met. Basic Requirements: United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy. English Language Proficiency: MTs must be proficient in spoken and written English in accordance with chapter 2, section D, paragraph 5a, this part. Education and/or Experience Combination: A bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited college or university in medical laboratory science, medical technology, clinical laboratory science or in a related science (e.g., laboratory sciences such as chemistry, biochemistry, biology, microbiology, immunology, etc.). AND Completion of a medical technology clinical practice program. Clinical practice programs completed after 1974 must have been accredited by the National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences (NAACLS), Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP, formerly CAHEA), or the Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools (ABHES). The professional curriculum may have consisted of a post-baccalaureate certificate program or be integrated into a four-year program of study that culminated in a baccalaureate degree. OR, A bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university, including 16 semester hours of biological science (with one course in microbiology), 16 semester hours of chemistry (with one course in organic or biochemistry) and one course in mathematics. AND Two years of post-certification clinical laboratory experience (e.g., blood banking, chemistry, hematology, microbiology, immunology, clinical microscopy, etc.) within the last ten years as a certified Medical Laboratory Technician by the American Society for Clinical Pathology Board of Certification (ASCP-BOC), American Society of Clinical Pathology Board of Registry (ASCP-BOR) or American Medical Technologists (AMT). This experience must include performing moderate and/or high complexity testing in blood banking, chemistry, hematology, microbiology immunology and clinical microscopy (or categorical experience which matches categorical certification) in a clinical laboratory. OR, A bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university, including 16 semester hours of biological science (with one course in microbiology), 16 semester hours of chemistry (with one course in organic or biochemistry) and one course in mathematics. AND Five years of clinical laboratory experience within the last ten years performing moderate and/or high complexity testing in blood banking, chemistry, hematology, microbiology, immunology and clinical microscopy (or categorical experience which matches categorical certification) in a clinical laboratory. Foreign Graduates: Graduates of foreign baccalaureate degree programs meet the educational and/or experience requirements if the degree is found to be equivalent to degree programs recognized by the NAACLS or clinical laboratory experience. This finding may be based on either of the following: (1) A letter from a college or university with a baccalaureate program recognized by the NAACLS stating that the individual's foreign degree has been evaluated and been found to be equivalent to its Bachelor of Medical Technology degree. (2) A letter from ASCP-BOC or AMT stating that the individual is eligible for the certification examination. Certification: Candidates must have either (1) or (2) below:(1) Candidates must currently possess the appropriate certification as a MT, MLS, or CLS given by the ASCP-BOC, ASCP-BOR, or AMT. (2) For positions up to the full performance level, candidates must currently possess the categorical or specialist technologist level certification from the certification agencies listed above, such as, but not limited to, chemistry (C/SC), hematology (H/SH), microbiology (M/SM), molecular biology (MB/SMB) and blood bank (BB/SBB). Technologists with categorical or specialist certifications may only perform duties within the area of the laboratory specific to their categorical certification (e. g., an individual with a chemistry (C) certification can only perform duties in chemistry) May qualify based on being covered by the Grandfathering Provision as described in the VA Qualification Standard for this occupation (only applicable to current VHA employees who are in this occupation and meet the criteria). Grade Determinations: In addition to the basic requirements above, applicants must meet the following grade requirements. Grade Requirements GS-10: Do you posses 1 year of creditable experience equivalent at the next lower grade level, which is directly related to the position to be filled? Demonstrated Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: In addition to the experience or education above, the candidate must demonstrate the following KSAs: 1. Comprehensive knowledge of and skill in applying a wide range of concepts, principles and methodology of the field to perform advanced techniques. 2. Ability to modify or adapt established methods, procedures or techniques to resolve difficult or complex problems. 3. Knowledge of the application of laboratory regulatory requirements. 4. Ability to provide or coordinate staff development and training. Preferred Experience: Knowledge of Laboratory Safety. References: VA Handbook 5005, Part II, Appendix G24. The full performance level of this vacancy is GS-09. The actual grade at which an applicant may be selected for this vacancy is GS-10. Physical Requirements: See VA Directive and Handbook 5019.

Education

IMPORTANT: A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.

Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.

Contacts

• Address VA Western New York Healthcare System 3495 Bailey Avenue Buffalo, NY 14215 US
• Name: Sarah Cassidy
• Email: [email protected]