Director Clinical Diagnostic Molecular Genetics Laboratory Job Listing at Kaiser Permanente in San Jose, CA (Job ID 3430800-2024-04-30)

Description

Job Summary:
Directs full service clinical/diagnostic molecular genetics laboratory for all Northern California providers and other facilities (inter-regional and non-Kaiser providers). Directs a laboratory performing mutation studies for an expanding list of genetic disorders. Ensures compliance with federal, state, and local regulations, quality of tests, and competency of staff. Ensures high-quality, accessible, cost effective and patient-focused services to members across the continuum. Develops and maintains laboratory practice standards, budgets, and staff development.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Ensures compliance with all federal, state, and local regulations and laws governing clinical molecular genetics testing. Ensures appropriate testing and proper reporting of all laboratory specimens.


• Directs, hires, and trains the laboratory staff, monitors competency and develops in-services for professional growth and certification.


• Develops, implements, maintains, and evaluates technical laboratory policies and procedures, quality control, and quality assurance programs.


• Performs case management and provides professional consultation. Assigns all cases, with instructions regarding testing process, reviews all test results, and interprets/reports results to providers.


• Develops, justifies, and assures efficient utilization of the laboratory budget. Identifies and implements measures to maintain the state of the art in molecular genetic testing in a cost effective manner, to increase accessibility, and to improve client and staff satisfaction, while improving quality of the tests.


• Researches, develops, and implements new laboratory procedures, techniques, diagnostic tests, and analytical methods for a variety of genetic disorders and sample types. Evaluates and recommends if new test/technique should become a laboratory standard. Tracks the trends and analyzes test results.


• Maintains up-to-date knowledge in the field of genetics and provides expertise regarding changes in the area of molecular biology. Collaborates with providers regarding test results.


• Provides education to staff, residents, providers, and other students. Represents the organization in the national and international scientific community.


• Kaiser Permanente conducts compensation reviews of positions on a routine basis. At any time, Kaiser Permanente reserves the right to reevaluate and change job descriptions, or to change such positions from salaried to hourly pay status. Such changes are generally implemented only after notice is given to affected employees.

• Minimum two (2) years of postdoctoral laboratory experience in genetics or related field.


• Minimum four (4) years of laboratory experience in molecular genetics.


• Minimum two (2) years of experience in directing a clinical genetics laboratory.

• Ph.D. and/or MD in Genetics or related field.

• Clinical Genetic Molecular Biologist License (Director) (California)
  

• Clinical Molecular Genetics and Genomics Certificate
  

• Knowledge of federal, state, and local regulations required.
• Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.

• Minimum of four (4) peer-reviewed publications in genetics or a related field preferred.