Title:  Microbiology Unit Doctor

Job Purpose

Maintains medical laboratory equipment performance by establishing quality standards; developing operations, quality, and troubleshooting procedures; ensuring staff compliance; certifying instrument performance; arranging equipment replacement, service, and repair.

Technical Accountabilities

• Provides medical laboratory diagnostic and therapeutic information, products, and services by establishing specimen preparation procedures; developing and implementing analytical procedures; evaluating laboratory information; consulting with pathologists; reporting results
• Maintains medical laboratory equipment performance by establishing quality standards; developing operations, quality, and troubleshooting procedures; ensuring staff compliance; certifying instrument performance; arranging equipment replacement, service, and repair.
• Maintains medical laboratory supplies inventory by checking stock to determine inventory level; anticipating needed supplies; placing and expediting orders for supplies; verifying receipt of supplies.
• Perform any task as required
• Preparing test solutions, compounds, and reagents for conducting tests and advising and coordinating test procedures.

Administrative Accountabilities

• Determining chemical and physical properties, compositions, structures, relationships, and reactions of organic and inorganic compounds.
• Using chromatography, spectroscopy, and spectrophotometry techniques.
• Developing, improving, and customizing products, equipment, formulas, processes, and analytical methods.
• Conferring with scientists and engineers to analyze, interpret, and develop tests.
• Introducing heat, light, energy, and chemical catalysts to chemical substances to induce reactions.
• Writing technical papers and reports, and preparing standards and specifications for processes, tests, and products.
• Maintaining laboratory instruments, troubleshooting malfunctions, and purchasing new laboratory supplies.
• Evaluating and ensuring compliance with laboratory safety procedures and standards.

Managerial Accountabilities

Measures

• Quality of results
• Cost of sample analysis
• Time to perform the analysis

Communication and working relationships

Daily verbal/ written/ phone communication with all internal concerned managers.

Ongoing internal communication with partners, stakeholders and all employees within the organization.

Job latitude / decision making authority

Works within defined policies procedures and work processes

Conducts analyses and makes proposals to the higher levels

Knowledge, skills and abilities (KSA's)

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Medicine.
• PHD in Clinical Pathology.
• More than 10 years' experience in the same position.

Competencies