MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIST CONSULTANT 2 - 04282025-67406

Job Information

LOCATION OF (1) POSITION(S) TO BE FILLED: DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, HEALTH RELATED BOARDS DIVISION, DAVIDSON COUNTY

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https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/health/program-areas/careers/04%2017%2025%20Medical%20Technology%20Consultant%202%20job%20ad.pdf

This position requires a criminal background check. Therefore, you may be required to provide information about your criminal history in order to be considered for this position.

Qualifications

Education and Experience: Licensed as a Medical Laboratory Technologist issued by the Tennessee Department of Health and experience equivalent to four years of full-time increasingly responsible medical laboratory technology work in an approved medical laboratory performing general laboratory work; additional graduate coursework in medical technology may be substituted for one year of the required experience.

Necessary Special Qualifications: Licensed as a Medical Laboratory Technologist issued by the Tennessee Department of Health. A valid vehicle operators license is required.

Examination Method: Education and Experience,100%, for Preferred Service positions.

Overview

Summary: Under direction, is responsible for supervisory medical technologic consulting work of average difficulty in directing laboratory licensing services for the Department of Health; and performs related work as required.

Distinguishing Features: This is the highest class in the Medical Technologist Cons sub-series. This class differs from that of Medical Technologist Cons 1 in that an incumbent of the latter is responsible for performing working level consultant duties.

Responsibilities

Documenting/Recording Information:

1. Reviews findings from surveys or investigations to ensure accurate information is used in decision making.
2. Documents findings from surveys or investigations to ensure accurate information is used in decision making, as required.
3. Maintains documentation to ensure the legal defensibility of compliance decisions.
4. Safeguards medical records in accordance with agency directives and state and federal laws.

Communicating with Persons Outside Organization:

1. Provides summation to facility of survey findings and corrective actions required to meet compliance.
2. Provides factual and authoritative information regarding state and federal laws with persons outside organization.
3. Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
4. Maintains professional working relationships with peer groups and organizations.

Making Decisions and Solving Problems:

1. Assesses problem areas within a facility that require enforcement proceedings, as required.
2. Identifies problem areas within a facility that require endorsement proceedings, as required.
3. Analyzes information and evaluate results to determine if the laboratorys response is acceptable to ensure compliance with state and federal guidelines, as required.

Performing Administrative Activities:

1. Oversees the performance of the day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
2. Approves subordinate time and leave requests, and travel requests, into electronic database, as required.
3. Schedule, coordinate and facilitate program specific meetings.
4. Enters personal time and leave requests, into electronic database, as required.

Training and Teaching Others:

1. Assists in the training of newly hired employees in the laboratory inspection process.
2. Identifies the educational needs of others; develop formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.
3. Conducts meetings or presentations to groups, the public, co-workers, or other departments regarding state and federal regulations and/or legislative processes and departmental policy.

Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge:

1. Maintains current Medical Laboratory Technologist license issued by the Tennessee Department of Health to ensure compliance with state regulations.
2. Maintains, updates, and integrates technical knowledge to enhance job performance.
3. Attends approved training for continuing education units (CEUs).

Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others:

1. Thoroughly explains details of investigations and reviews by testifying under oath to judges, district attorneys, grand juries, or commissioners in depositions, court, and/or at departmental or regulatory board hearings.
2. Testifies before grand juries, judges, commissioners, and at trials, preliminary or departmental hearings regarding state and federal laws, codes, ordinances, regulations, and standard violations.

Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards:

1. Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, grants, budgets, regulations, or standards.
2. Verifies credentials to ensure compliance with state and federal regulations.

Developing Objectives and Strategies:

1. Detecting changes in circumstances, events, or trends to identify changes and areas of improvement and submit in proper channels.
2. Identifying the underlying principles, reason, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.

Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work:

1. Ensures all expected state and federal mandated deadlines are met.
2. Supervises and/or organizes and prioritizes personal and/or personnel workload using calendars, lists, and other facilitators to ensure timely and accurate completion of work.

Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates:

1. Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.
2. Judging how well a subordinate performs on a given SMART goal.

Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings:

1. Supervises and/or monitors and reviews information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
2. Monitors and controls inventory to ensure staff have necessary equipment to perform their duties, required.

Processing Information:

1. Compiles, codes, categorizes, calculates, tabulates, audits, or verifies information or data for reports, grants and/or budgets.

Staffing Organizational Units:

1. Recruiting, interviewing, selecting, hiring, and promoting employees in an organization.

Provide Consultation and Advice to Others:

1. Provides guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, regulatory as relative to state and federal laws, or process-related topics.

Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or material:

1. Supervises and/or inspects equipment, work environment, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.

Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others:

1. Handles complaints, settling disputes, and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others, as needed.

Getting Information:

1. Supervises and/or observing, receiving, and/or otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.

Scheduling Work and Activities:

1. Supervises and/or schedule events, inspections, and daily activities to ensure completion of all work activities in a timely manner.

Interacting With Computers:

1. Uses computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to set up functions, enter data, or process information.

Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others:

1. Coordinates with upper management, peers, and assigned subordinates to facilitate equitable workload dissemination.

Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates:

1. Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.

Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships:

1. Maintains professional working relationships with peers, and with upper management to ensure smooth and effective team operations.

Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment:

1. Operates a state issued or personal vehicle to perform duties associated with this position, as required.

Competencies (KSA's)

Competencies:

1. Decision Quality
2. Planning
3. Process Management
4. Command Skills
5. Managerial Courage
6. Comfort around Higher Management
7. Written Communications
8. Building Effective Teams
9. Composure
10. Integrity and Trust

Knowledge:

1. Administration Management
2. Biology
3. Chemistry
4. Clerical
5. Customer and Personal Service
6. Economics/Accounting
7. Education and Training
8. Law and Government
9. Mathematics
10. Medicine and Dentistry
11. Personnel and Human Resources
12. Psychology
13. Public Safety and Security

Skills:

1. Active Learning
2. Active Listening
3. Critical Thinking
4. Learning Strategies
5. Mathematics
6. Monitoring
7. Reading Comprehension
8. Science
9. Speaking
10. Writing
11. Coordination
12. Instructing
13. Negotiation
14. Persuasion
15. Social Perceptiveness
16. Complex Problem Solving
17. Operation and Control
18. Quality Control Analysis
19. Troubleshooting
20. Judgment/Decision Making
21. Systems Analysis
22. Systems Evaluation
23. Management of Financial Resources
24. Management of Material Resources
25. Management of Personnel Resources
26. Time Management

Abilities:

1. Category Flexibility
2. Deductive Reasoning
3. Inductive Reasoning
4. Information Ordering
5. Oral Comprehension
6. Oral Expression
7. Perceptual Speed
8. Problem Sensitivity
9. Selective Attention
10. Time Sharing
11. Written Comprehension
12. Written Expression
13. Far Vision
14. Near Vision
15. Speech Clarity
16. Speech Recognition
17. Visual Color Discrimination

Tools & Equipment

1. Personal Computer
2. Telephone
3. Fax Machine
4. Printer
5. Scanner
6. Copy Machine
7. Calculator
8. Smart Phone
9. Electronic Devices
10. Other Office Related Equipment as Required
11. Various Medical Equipment and Devices
12. Digital Cameras
13. MP3 Players
14. Other Equipment as Required

TN Driver Standards

State of Tennessee positions that may involve driving responsibilities require candidates to meet the following minimum driver qualifications:

• A valid driver's license
• For the past five years, the candidate's driver record must not have record of the following violations: driving under the influence (DUI), reckless driving, license suspension for moving violations, more than 4 moving violations.

Please include your Driver's License Information under the Licenses and Certifications section of your application.

**Agencies may allow an exception based on other factors.