Job ID: 89978
Location: Aurora, Colorado
Full/Part Time: Full-Time
Regular/Temporary: Regular
Why Work at Children's....
Here, it's different. Come join us. Children's Hospital Colorado has defined and delivered pediatric healthcare excellence for more than 100 years. Here, the nation's brightest nurses, physicians, scientists, researchers, therapists, and care providers are creating the future of child health. With an optimist's outlook, a trailblazing spirit, and a celebrated history, we're making new strides every day.
We've been Magnet-designated four times by the American Nurses Credentialing Center and are consistently recognized among the best of the best pediatric hospitals with #1 rankings in Colorado and the region by U.S. News & World Report.
As a national leader in pediatric care, we serve children and families from all over the nation. Our System of Care includes four pediatric hospitals, 11 specialty care centers, 1,300+ outreach clinics, and more than 10,000 healthcare professionals representing the full spectrum of pediatric care specialties.
Here, we know it takes all of us, every role, to deliver the best possible care to each child and family we treat. That's why we build our teams toward a foundation of equity in access, advancement, and opportunity. We know teams of individuals with different identities and backgrounds can nurture creativity and innovation. We know we can see, treat, and heal children better when our team reflects the diversity of our patient population. We strive to attract and retain diverse talent because we know a truly inclusive and equitable workforce will help us one day realize our most basic calling: to heal every child who comes through our doors.
A career at Children's Colorado will challenge you, inspire you, and motivate you to make a difference in the life of a child. Here, it's different.
Job Overview
The Clinical Molecular Geneticist Manager is an integral part of the Children's Hospital Colorado Precision Diagnostics Laboratory team. Advancing our understanding of genomics and providing accurate interpretation of genomics data for effective diagnoses and treatment of our patients. Works with a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals, including laboratory technologists, variant analysts, software engineers, data analysts, genetic counselors, scientific directors, and physicians to provide clinical expertise in interpretation of genomics laboratory test results with primary responsibility for signing out interpretative reports.
Additional Information
Department: Precision Diagnostics PDX Lab
Hours per week: 40, eligible for benefits
Shift: Monday - Friday, 8am - 5pm, work hours may vary based on the needs of the department. This position has potential to be fully remote if applicant is located within CHCO hiring region.
Qualifications
- EDUCATION: Doctoral degree (Ph.D. or M.D./Ph.D.) in Molecular Genetics, Human Genetics, or a related field from an accredited institution.
- EXPERIENCE: Five (5) years' experience in broad-based genomic testing interpretation including variant analysis, case review and sign out in a clinical laboratory setting. Broad knowledge of genetic variant databases and their utility is essential with an underlying knowledge of NGS wet-bench techniques as it relates to data quality and interpretation.
- EQUIVALENCY: Combination of education and/or clinical relevant experience: bachelor degree and fourteen (14) years or masters degree and ten (10) years.
- Candidate with extensive experience in whole exome/genome clinical case sign out strongly preferred.
- Ideal candidate will have experience overseeing a diverse team to deliver case sign out at or below expected turnaround time.
- For eligible candidate only - board certification is preferred.
Responsibilities
POPULATION SPECIFIC CARE: No direct patient care.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Develops and coordinates operationally related quality and safety improvement programs addressing personnel competency, compounding, dispensing, and inventory control with the goal of ensuring the safe and efficient provision of services by the department. Conducts quality assurance monitoring and auditing to demonstrate compliance with hospital and department policy and procedures, regulatory, and accreditation standards.
- Develops annual work plans used to achieve goals and performance metrics.
- Participates in leadership activities for division, contributing to the achievement of goals and objectives; evaluates team performance. Defines and maintains internal processes for function; establishes customer service standards and handles operational and customer service escalations for function. Serves as a champion of enterprise-wide culture, influencing culture change to support functional objectives.
- Manages communications to the enterprise on projects and hot topics related to functional area. Maintains effective working relationships with peers in division, peers in other divisions, and senior leadership.
- Assigns and reviews work, provides work instruction (OTJ or formal training) and develops team members. Evaluates performance of team members, providing continuous feedback. Manages discipline and performance issues, hires, and fires team members. Identifies resource needs and develops recommendations for meeting needs.
- Participates in developing budget recommendations, monitoring budget, and identifying cost-saving opportunities.
- Works on highly complex or controversial projects; performs project management activities. Provides technical expertise on programs, processes, and best practices.
- Ensures compliance against federal, state, and local regulations for functional area.
Other Information
SCOPE & LEVEL: Guidelines are in the form of stated goals and objectives for function. Complexity: Work assignment is unstructured, and leader is responsible for implementing and managing a variety of objectives, resources, and initiatives to achieve the goals of the function. Duties performed include operational planning; developing standards, priorities, guidelines, processes, measurement (evaluation) systems; implementation of production and performance management standards; and allocating resources. Work is tactical and operational in nature.
Decision Making: Employee is responsible for planning, organizing, allocating resources, ensuring compliance with procedures, and achieving the objectives of the function.
Communication: Communication at this level is primarily internally focused and involves establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with team members, peers, directors, and executives. Provides guidance and interpretation of the enterprise's policies, procedures, and standards. Provides information to higher-level directors and executives.
Supervision Received: Responsible for achieving the objectives of function within the scope of established guidelines. Employee is expected to resolve problems that arise in the normal course of the work. Work is reviewed for soundness of judgment and feasibility of decisions.
Physical Requirements
- Audio-Visual: Near: Clear vision at 20 inches or less
- Weight Lifted/Force Exerted: up to 10 pounds, up to 1/3 of time
- Hearing: Able to clearly hear details
- Sit: 2/3 or more of time
- Talk: Able to communicate verbally
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
- Equipment: telephone, computers, reading reports/graphs
- Exposure: Exposure to blood/body fluid: Occasional.
- Exposure: Exposure to chemicals: Occasional.
- Exposure: Exposure to infectious diseases: Frequent.
- Mental and Emotional Requirements: Independent discretion/decision making.
- Mental and Emotional Requirements: Makes decisions under pressure.
- Mental and Emotional Requirements: Manages stress appropriately.
- Mental Stress: Managing workload and system issues
- Mental Stress: multi-tasking, meeting deadlines, prioritizing
Equal Employment Opportunity
It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. Be aware that none of the questions are intended to imply illegal preferences or discrimination based on non-job-related information.
The position is expected to stay open until the posted close date. Please submit your application as soon as possible as the posting is subject to close at any time once a sufficient pool of qualified applicants is obtained.
Salary Information: Annual Salary Range (Based on 40 hours worked per week): $162,119.18 to $243,178.77. Hourly Salary Range: $77.94 to $116.91.
Benefits Information: Here, you matter. As a Children's Hospital Colorado team member, you will receive a competitive pay and benefits package designed to take care of your needs that includes base pay, incentives, paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, company provided life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, 403b employer match (retirement savings), a robust wellness program, and access to professional development tools, including an education benefit to help you advance your career.
As part of our Total Rewards package, Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April.
Children's Colorado delivers annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on their performance over the previous year.
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