Overview
This position is in Directorate of Clinical Support Services, Laboratory/Clinical Pathology Office in U.S. Naval Hospital, Yokosuka, Japan.
The incumbent serves as a Quality Assurance/Process Improvement (QA/PI) Technologist and the Quality Assurance Coordinator for Blood Bank services.
Naval Hospital, Yokosuka is the largest U.S. military treatment facility on mainland Japan: a 47-bed core hospital in Yokosuka, near Tokyo. Branch health clinics are located in Sasebo, Iwakuni, Atsugi, Camp Fuji, and Yokohama in mainland Japan; Chinhae, Korea on the southern tip of South Korea; and, Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. USNH Yokosuka serves 33,000 beneficiaries throughout the western Pacific by caring for readiness. This is accomplished by enabling the Fleet through quality patient and family-centered healthcare delivered by empowered people using efficient business practices.
%MCEPASTEBIN%%MCEPASTEBIN%Responsibilities
Duties
- Serve as a Quality Assurance/Process Improvement (QA/PI) Technologist and the Quality Assurance Coordinator for Blood Bank services.
- Manage a Quality Management Program and a Comprehensive External Proficiency Testing Program.
- Coordinate a comprehensive external proficiency testing program, ensuring that all laboratory analyses and procedures are surveyed in accordance with current accreditation and regulatory guidelines.
- Educate laboratory staff members regarding the Command patient Safety Program in coordination with the laboratory safety petty officer.
- Write audit reports documenting the audit procedures and results and recommend for corrective actions.
Qualifications
US Citizenship required
Basic Requirement for Clinical Laboratory Scientist:A. A Bachelor's or graduate/higher level degree from a regionally accredited college/university including courses in biological science, chemistry and mathematics, AND successful completion of a Medical Laboratory Scientist/Clinical Laboratory Scientist program accredited by the National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences (NAACLS) or an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education at the time the degree was obtained.ORB. At least a full 4-year course of study that included 12 months in a college or hospital-based medical technology program or medical technology school approved by a recognized accrediting organization. The professional medical technology curriculum may have consisted of a 1-year post- bachelor's certificate program or the last 1 or 2 years of a 4-year program of study culminating in a bachelor's in medical technology.ORC. A bachelor's or graduate/higher level degree from an accredited college/university that included 16 semester hours (24 quarter hours) of biological science (with one semester in microbiology), 16 semester hours (24 quarter hours) of chemistry (with one semester in organic or biochemistry), one semester (one quarter) of mathematics, AND five years of full time acceptable clinical laboratory experience in Blood Banking, Chemistry, Hematology, microbiology, Immunology and Urinalysis/Body Fluids. This combination of education and experience must have provided knowledge of the theories, principles, and practices of medical technology equivalent to that provided by the full 4-year course of study described in A or B above. All science and mathematics courses must have been acceptable for credit toward meeting the requirements for a science major at an accredited college or university. Acceptable experience is responsible professional or technician experience in a hospital laboratory, health agency, industrial medical laboratory, or pharmaceutical house; or teaching, test development, or medical research program experience that provided an understanding of the methods and techniques applied in performing professional clinical laboratory work. Certification/licensure as a medical technologist (generalist) obtained through written examination by a nationally recognized credentialing agency or State licensing body is a good indication that the quality of experience is acceptable.Evaluation of Education and Experience: The four major areas of clinical laboratory science are microbiology, clinical chemistry, hematology, and immunohematology (blood banking). Qualifying course work in these areas includes bacteriology, mycology, mycobacteriology, tissue culture, virology, parasitology, endocrinology, enzymology, toxicology, urinalysis, coagulation, hemostasis, cell morphology, immunology, serology, immunoserology, immuno-deficiency, hemolysis, histocompatibility, cyto-genetics, and similar disciplines or areas of laboratory practice.Related fields include physiology, anatomy, molecular biology, cell biology, embryology, pathology, genetics, pharmacology, histology, cytology, nuclear medicine, epidemiology, biostatistics, infection control, physics, statistics, and similar areas of science where the work is directly related to the position to be filled.Exemption: You are exempt from the basic requirements above if you are a current federal employee occupying a position in the 0644 occupational series and have been continuously employed in this occupational series since September 27, 2017 or before. Note: You will be required to provide appropriate documentation to the respective Human Resources Office to validate your status.In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below:Certification: Certification from the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), American Medical Technologist (AMT) or other board or registry deemed comparable by Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs (OASD(HA)) or their designee as a Medical Technologist (MT) or Medical Lab Scientist (MLS) is required.ANDSpecialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes developing administration of Quality Assurance (QA)/Process Improvement (PI) in Laboratory Department, reviewing accreditation standards and regulatory requirements to ensure compliance, and educating laboratory or medical staff to comply with a Patient Safety Program.OREducation: Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position, such as: medical technology, chemistry, biology or education that is directly related to the position.ORCombination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the second year (total graduate semester hours minus 36) by 18. Add the two percentages.
