Senior Technical Systems Mentor and Regional Coordinator
Responsibilities and Expectations:
The Regional Coordinator’s role will be to ensure that the project activities are well coordinated and run as planned. The Coordinator will as well take the lead in making sure all stakeholders are kept abreast with the project activities. To serve as a laboratory mentor and provide technical support to selected public health, clinical laboratories to strengthen their quality management systems towards laboratory accreditation.
Duties
- Formulate work plans for the mentors with agreed target date for deliverables
- Oversee activities of mentors, coordinators and consultants hired to execute regional activities
- Oversee regional activities and liase with ASLM and CDC in execution of all regional work plan activities
- Support the implementation of laboratory quality management systems and preparation for accreditation in the selected laboratories assigned.
- Assist with the conduct of internal audits for the selected Laboratories.
- Review laboratory internal audit reports and provide recommendations where appropriate
- Develop action plans based on the results of baseline and follow up assessments to address gaps identified.
- Implement the action plans, working alongside the laboratory personnel in order to develop the sustained culture of quality.
- Conduct follow up visits to the laboratory to ensure that improvement projects are implemented.
- Work with the laboratories to develop and implement documents (laboratory manuals, SOPs, forms, records etc.) based on the requirements of the ISO 15189.
- Review performance of laboratories in External Quality Assessment (EQA) programs and provide recommendations where appropriate to address areas of non-conformance.
- Provide monthly reports and contribute to semi-annual and annual final reports on the progress of laboratory activities to the Caribbean CDC regional office, and ASLM.
Deliverables:
- Laboratory manuals, policy documents, SOPs, test methods, forms, records developed and other procedures as required by the ISO 15189 QMS in keeping with the agreed timeline stipulated in the Lab’s work plan.
- Monthly and summary reports submitted with clear updates and information on the outcome of non-conformances, recommendations for future laboratory training, equipment upgrade, safety concerns; and any other issues to be addressed in order to implement the QMS and apply for accreditation of the laboratories.
- Update of Quality improvement action plan and the status of the ISO 15189 QMS.
- Reports on results of internal audits and effectiveness of corrective actions taken to address non-conformance.
- Semi-annual and annual reports of activities executed in the region