Laboratory Quality & Compliance Safety Specialist

Join UCLA Health and use your passion for clinical laboratory compliance, 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, Compliance/Education and Safety Specialist for UCLA West Valley Medical Center laboratory, your primary duties will include:

• Maintaining quality system essentials across multidisciplinary laboratory operations, ensuring compliance with licensing, accrediting, governmental, and credentialing agency requirements.
• 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. 
• Assist with the CLS student program, continuing education and CLS career track programs, department staff orientation, and the safety program.

Salary Range: $119,700.00/year - $272,700.00/year