Laboratory Quality & Education Specialist
UCLA Health Systems
Posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Posting ID: 24768
Los Angeles, CA
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Description
Join UCLA Health and use your passion for clinical laboratory compliance, education, and quality improvement to make a meaningful impact. In this dynamic role, you will lead and support key programs that uphold excellence in laboratory operations while mentoring future and current clinical laboratory professionals.
As the Laboratory Quality & Education Specialist, your primary duties will include:
• Providing leadership, support, and expertise for the CLS student program, continuing education and CLS career track programs, department staff orientation, and the safety program.
• Leading training sessions to promote compliance and quality excellence.
• Reviewing quality data, proficiency testing activities, and validation plans.
• Providing technical reviews for the laboratory and UCLA Health.
• Conducting assessments and audits.
• Developing and implementing new policies, processes, and procedures.
• Investigating nonconforming events to identify systemic issues.
• Analyzing data trends for risk management and process improvement.
• Maintaining quality system essentials across multidisciplinary laboratory operations, ensuring compliance with licensing, accrediting, governmental, and credentialing agency requirements.
Salary Range: $112,900.00/year - $256,900.00/year
Job Qualifications
Qualifications
• Minimum 3 years of experience coordinating quality assurance, compliance, and educational activities within a clinical laboratory setting.
• Proven ability to manage deviations and implement effective corrective actions.
• Strong project planning and execution skills.
• Demonstrated experience in writing procedures, reports, and documentation for regulatory and operational use.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to lead training and educational programs.
• Active California Clinical Laboratory Scientist (CLS) license and/or ASQ certification (CQA or CQM) preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field preferred.
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Join UCLA Health and use your passion for clinical laboratory compliance, education, and quality improvement to make a meaningful impact. In this dynamic role, you will lead and support key programs that uphold excellence in laboratory operations while mentoring future and current clinical laboratory professionals.
As the Laboratory Quality & Education Specialist, your primary duties will include:
• Providing leadership, support, and expertise for the CLS student program, continuing education and CLS career track programs, department staff orientation, and the safety program.
• Leading training sessions to promote compliance and quality excellence.
• Reviewing quality data, proficiency testing activities, and validation plans.
• Providing technical reviews for the laboratory and UCLA Health.
• Conducting assessments and audits.
• Developing and implementing new policies, processes, and procedures.
• Investigating nonconforming events to identify systemic issues.
• Analyzing data trends for risk management and process improvement.
• Maintaining quality system essentials across multidisciplinary laboratory operations, ensuring compliance with licensing, accrediting, governmental, and credentialing agency requirements.
Salary Range: $112,900.00/year - $256,900.00/year
Job Qualifications
Qualifications
• Minimum 3 years of experience coordinating quality assurance, compliance, and educational activities within a clinical laboratory setting.
• Proven ability to manage deviations and implement effective corrective actions.
• Strong project planning and execution skills.
• Demonstrated experience in writing procedures, reports, and documentation for regulatory and operational use.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to lead training and educational programs.
• Active California Clinical Laboratory Scientist (CLS) license and/or ASQ certification (CQA or CQM) preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field preferred.
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The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
On-SiteCommunication
Quality Improvement
Operations
Coordinating
Auditing
Leadership
Mentorship
Data Analysis
Presentations
Risk Management
Process Improvement
Project Planning
Software Technical Review
Quality Management Systems
Quality Assurance
Medical Laboratory
American Society For Quality (ASQ) Certified
Clinical Laboratory Science
Certified Quality Auditor
Procedure Writing
Certified Quality Manager
Clinical Laboratory Scientist License (CLS)
