NU Hospitals
Website:
nuhospitals.com
Job details:
Designation: Consultant Microbiologist
Reporting To: Lab director /Medical director /Managing director
Qualification & Experience: MD (microbiology) / D Bact
Knowledge And Skills Required
Should have knowledge of NABL 112 and ISO15189 standards.
Effective teaching skills.
Should have knowledge of current practices and guidelines in microbiology.
Key Result Areas
- Overall operation and direction of microbiology department.
- Establishing procedures and policies of quality system procedure, SOPs, work instructions,
charts, calibration
- Ensure that the quality control and quality assurance programs are established and maintained to
assure the quality of laboratory services provided and to identify failures in quality as they occur.
- Verification of reports before dispatch and to see that turnaround time is maintained.
- To interact and coordinate with clinicians.
- To include newer tests in NABL scope.
- To interact with Lab staff and Students for effective day to day work.
- To maintain the staff morale.
- To present microbiological data for publication.
- Regular participation in infection control of the hospital and heading the HICC committee.
- Training the ICN and hospital staff regarding infection control policies.
Job Responsibilities
Participatory
- Reporting of slides and smears.
- To authorize the reports.
- To train the technicians and paramedical students.
- To periodically review microbiology staff competency.
- Establish and maintain criteria to meet the standard requirements of ISO 15189.
- To appoint and assign duties to section head and deputy section heads.
- To define, document and maintain procedures to control all documents.
- To review and approve all documents.
- To provide advice on choice of examination and use of services, repeat frequency and type of
sample
- To maintain procedure for resolution of complaints
- To identify the Non conformances, and take required corrective action
- To monitor the results of corrective action and implement the changes
- To provide access to suitable educational and training opportunities for all lab staff
- To organize and carry out the internal audit
- To prepare the agenda of management review meeting according to NABL guidelines and discuss
with the management
- Verify & approval all Microbiology , Serology & Molecular Biology Reports
Will Supervise
- To supervise the inventory control system for supplies
- To supervise that obsolete documents are marked and removed from access
- To supervise the policies and procedure where lab enters into contract to provide medical
services
- To supervise procedure for selecting referral laboratories and maintain referral lab register and
duplicate copy of reports either as soft copy or hard copy
- To see that all quality and technical records are identified, indexed, maintained and reviewed
- To supervise overall quality control of microbiology including ILQA and EQAS
Will participate in: CQI meetings, Clinical Audit, MRM meetings, Departmental meetings,
CMNABL Audits, NABH Audits and all activities related to HICC meetings
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