Job description

Job Title: Supervisor Laboratory - Cytogenetics $10,000 Sign on Bonus
Department: RML Genetics Lab
Shift: 1st
Specialty: Genetics
Job Number: 2023-1618
Date Posted: 05/05/2023
Position Type: Laboratory Services

Job Qualifications:

Supervisor Laboratory - Cytogenetics
$10,000 Sign on Bonus

Rush University Medical Center is one of the country's leading medical centers pushing the boundaries of healthcare services with innovative, compassionate, and accountable team members. Are you ready to challenge and grow your skills, contribute to providing top quality patient care, and enhance your career? Rush is a diverse and inclusive culture, and offers a competitive salary, and a valuable compensation package including health, dental and vision benefits, retirement, health savings accounts, and tuition assistance to invest in your future.



The clinical laboratory at Rush University Medical Center is recruiting a laboratory supervisor to oversee our cytogenetics laboratory. Candidates must have a B.S. or M.S. degree in Biology or related science, certification in clinical cytogenetics, and a minimum of 5 years of cytogenetic and molecular cytogenetic experience. Candidates must be proficient in the performance and interpretation of clinical cytogenetic testing, including, chromosome, and FISH to support the needs of our full-service Cytogenetic Laboratory. Responsibilities include personnel supervision, training of cytogenetic technologists, review of laboratory results and development of new assays.

Position Responsibilities:

Supervises the technical operations of the laboratory, including resource and personnel management
Exemplifies the Rush mission, vision and values and acts in accordance with Rush policies and procedures.
Innovation
Sees the overall picture and plan for the future
Exhibits decision making skills, follow-through, adaptability, and willingness to change.
Communicates changes in the workplace to the staff and lets superiors know what is needed to implement these changes.
Collaboration
Creates constructive relationships to achieve mutually positive clinical, service, or business outcomes with peers, management, customers, and other RUMC departments.
Accountability
Consistently achieves desired outcomes with a minimum of avoidable errors and problems, including minimum consumption of resources such as time, money and materials
Is conscious of the need to seek out better ways of working.

Interpersonal Relations

Has a positive effect on others, including the ability to establish and maintain positive and productive working relationships.
Resolves conflicts and misunderstandings with other employees, clients and supervisors. Inspires goodwill, cooperation, trust and mutual respect among a wide range of people.
Education and Professional Self Development
Recognizes the importance of training and continuing education for self and staff.
Prepares materials as necessary and ensures that materials are current.
Demonstrates the ability to inform employees in a manner that employees can understand
Ensures staff are given the opportunity to participate in continuing education activities.
Conducts laboratory in services and staff meetings in a clear and organized manner.

Policy Compliance
Complies with departmental and institutional policies and practices.
Exhibits awareness of policies and practices.
Demonstrates willingness to comply with all requirements and can be relied upon to do so without the need for constant supervision or reminders.
Writes, reviews, and updates departmental policies and procedures in a timely manner.
Job Knowledge
Has job-relevant knowledge and skills appropriate for the position.
This includes awareness, possession or mastery of special facts, practices, manual skills and techniques, supervision skills, problem solving skills and methods.
Meets the job knowledge requirements for the job. Is able to complete the normal or typical work tasks of the job without guidance and support from others.
Work Output
Satisfactorily completes ordinary duties of the job within an acceptable time.
Works quickly but safely, concentrates well, and sustains effort level. Monitors and regulates output to ensure needed tasks are completed on time.
Meets the work output requirements for this job.
Communications
Communicates well, both orally and in writing, with clarity and good effect.
Understands clearly and quickly when communications (such as instructions, orders or complaints) are received.
Judges what information is important and what should be communicated, how, to whom, and when. Meets the communications requirements for the job.
Responds to information in an appropriate, timely and complete manner. Oral and written communications are usually acceptable, being both comprehensible and appropriate. Usually understands written and/or oral instructions and requests quickly.
Operations and Technical Expertise
Demonstrates ability to manage workflow, recognize quality control values and respond appropriately to outliers, be a technical resource person, recognize instrument/ assay problems, and maintain technical proficiency.
Responds to employee technical questions adequately and directs employees to appropriate references as needed. Maintains technical proficiency in order to accurately perform testing in areas under their supervision.
Special Assignments
Accepts special projects and completes them as assigned.
Make recommendations on new assays and instrumentation as needed.
Monitors expenses, gathers data, reviews information, writes reports and memos, maintains ordering and inventory, performs employee evaluations, schedules employees, and completes any other project as assigned, in a timely and accurate manner.

Position Qualifications Include:

Bachelor of Science degree in relevant science and certification from a nationally recognized certifying agency, or Master of Science degree in a relevant discipline.
Five years (5) relevant experience or equivalent required.




Company Highlights:
Ranked among the top academic medical centers in the country, Rush University Medical Center is an outstanding place to enhance your career. Everything we do centers on one goal: improving patient care.
Rush offers a competitive salary, and valuable healthy living benefits including: health, dental and vision to help you maintain and improve your health. Rush also offers several ways to invest in your future.
Rush University Medical Center was ranked among the top 20 best hospitals to work at in 2019 by Indeed.
All three hospitals in the Rush University System for Health have been designated a "Leader in LGBTQ Healthcare Equality" in the Healthcare Equality Index (HEI).

Rush is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

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