Lead the science. Develop the team. Help deliver answers that matter.

Take the next step in your laboratory career as a Supervisor, Laboratory Services – Flow Cytometry with UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. This is an opportunity to bring together your technical laboratory expertise and leadership skills to guide a talented team whose work supports high-quality patient care.

In this role, you’ll oversee the daily activities of your laboratory work group while helping ensure quality, efficiency, and continuous improvement. You’ll have the opportunity to coach and develop laboratory professionals, provide technical training, oversee workload and testing operations, and help your team perform at its best.

What makes this opportunity stand out:

• Specialized leadership opportunity supporting Flow Cytometry
• Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., with on-call responsibilities
• Hands-on leadership, coaching, training, and staff development
• Opportunity to drive performance improvement and laboratory operations
• Comprehensive benefits, including medical coverage, retirement programs, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement, wellness programs, and eligibility for Public Service Loan Forgiveness

JOB DUTIES

• Demonstrate continuous performance improvement in targeted areas of responsibility in alignment with the overall annual Hospital performance improvement targets.
• Meets or exceeds financial goals and objectives of the department.
• Manage and direct the daily activities of assigned laboratory work group(s) through appropriate delegation, technical skills training, and work supervision. Supervisors screen and assign workload. Oversee the work of laboratory personnel performing routine testing.
• Manage staff in accordance with organization’s policies and applicable regulations. Counsel, train, and coach laboratory staff. Directs the management of sections, human resources, and employee relations. Responsibilities include appraising performance and guiding professional development; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing employee relations issues and resolving problems. Approve actions on human resources issues. Foster a unified culture and facilitate collaboration, cooperation, sharing of information and teamwork. Participate in initiatives to improve employee engagement to positively impact operational results, customer satisfaction and employee retention.
• Supervisors will take measures to keep the laboratory running efficiently by developing and implementing quality control programs, preparing technical reports on lab activity, and designing efficient work schedules for personnel. Assist in the creation and revision of laboratory policies and technical procedures. Maintain appropriate control and quality assurance procedures. Ensure compliance with the Clinical Laboratory Services quality assurance and safety requirements. Accountable for adherence to state and federal rules and regulations; ensures compliance with CAP, AABB, TJC, federal, state, and local agencies.
• Keep abreast of new technical developments. Assist with implementation of new tests, equipment, programs and/or procedures in the assigned area(s) as needed. Supervisors learn new laboratory procedures and techniques and introduce them to their team.
• Accountable for on-going training and professional development of staff. Meet regularly with staff, technical directors and senior management to discuss and resolve workload and technical issues.
• Assist in developing performance standards. Monitor work, develop staff skills and evaluate performance.
• Performs advanced/specialized tests and other related laboratory techniques. Reruns work of others to confirm test results. Re-evaluates methodology and makes recommended changes to assist in test interpretation. Determines if further testing should be done on samples or if test should be repeated.
• Performs duties of technologist as necessitated by absence or peak workload.