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General Information

Work Location: Los Angeles, USA
Onsite or Remote
Fully On-Site
Work Schedule
Monday – Friday, 8:00am – 5:00pm
Posted Date
06/11/2025
Salary Range: $112900 - 256900 Annually
Employment Type
2 - Staff: Career
Duration
Indefinite
Job #
24768

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Join UCLA Health and use your passion for clinical laboratory compliance, education, 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 & Education Specialist, your primary duties will include:

• Providing leadership, support, and expertise for the CLS student program, continuing education and CLS career track programs, department staff orientation, and the safety program.

• 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. 

• Maintaining quality system essentials across multidisciplinary laboratory operations, ensuring compliance with licensing, accrediting, governmental, and credentialing agency requirements.

Salary Range: $112,900.00/year - $256,900.00/year


Job Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of experience coordinating quality assurance, compliance, and educational activities within a clinical laboratory setting.

• Proven ability to manage deviations and implement effective corrective actions.

• Strong project planning and execution skills.

• Demonstrated experience in writing procedures, reports, and documentation for regulatory and operational use.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to lead training and educational programs.

• Active California Clinical Laboratory Scientist (CLS) license and/or ASQ certification (CQA or CQM) preferred.

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field preferred.


As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts a conditional offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; received notice of any allegations or are currently the subject of any administrative or disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct; have left a position after receiving notice of allegations or while under investigation in an administrative or disciplinary proceeding involving misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of misconduct with a previous employer.