Laboratory Manager
- Thika Hospital
- Permanent
- 18, May 2025
- Healthcare
Purpose Statement
Our purpose is to enable and maintain health.
Mission
To provide high quality care that exceeds our clients’ expectations.
Job Description
About Avenue Healthcare
Avenue Healthcare is one of the leading private healthcare groups in East Africa running 3 Hospitals, and 15 clinics across Kenya, and a Homecare business. With over 25 years in the healthcare industry, Avenue Healthcare runs 300 hospital beds with over 1.000 staff members, and more than 400 specialists and serves over 400,000 patients annually, offering primary, secondary, and tertiary healthcare services.
POSITION: LABORATORY MANAGER
TYPE: PERMANENT
LOCATION: THIKA
DEPARTMENT: MEDICAL SERVICES
REPORTS TO: CLINICAL OPERATIONS MANAGER
Job Objective/ Purpose:
Planning, organizing, and coordinating all the activities in the Laboratory unit, ensuring the provision of high quality laboratory diagnostic services in the hospital, in line with the Hospital protocols and standards.
Key Responsibilities:
1. People Management:
a) Supervise Laboratory team in delivering individual and team targets by ensuring the delivery of professional and high standard of services.
b) Prepare monthly work schedules (ROTA) and ensure efficient use of overtimes and locums.
c) Provide leadership, ensuring staff development, engagement, performance, and ensure monthly staff meetings with documented evidence.
2. Ensure the unit is financially viable and demonstrate growth through;
a) Managing Laboratory costs within budget through appropriate staffing, timely and accurate billing of laboratory services, managing incidences, and proper consumable management.
b) Offering quality care to patients and ensuring good relationship with stakeholders and client satisfaction, following up on their feedback,
3. Stock Management: Ensure monthly stock takes, Timely ordering and receiving of stock from the supplier to prevent stock outs, & proper storage.
4. Equipment and Supplies Management: Ensure proper inventory, maintenance, and calibration of the equipment used in the laboratory for efficient and accurate results.
5. Laboratory Services
a) Ensure proper and timely documentation and maintenance of laboratory records, patient records and tests results while maintaining confidentiality. Record, verify, and amend (when required) the test results, and ensure the integrity of the results database.
b) Ensure a safe working environment in accordance with relevant legislation and all safety protocols, including adherence to IPC standards, correct disposal of medical and bio-hazardous waste, implementation of SOPs and QIPs and incident reporting, and reviewing and acting on quality indicator reports (IQC & EQA).
c) Ensure that any issue pertaining quality and Stock outs are escalated to the Group Lab Manager and MSM/HM
6. Follow laid down Lab Board approved rules for the medical lab profession, and adhere to Government and professional standards of care and treatment of patients.
7. Ensure adequate knowledge of, and compliance to all Avenue Healthcare policies, procedures, and systems, especially policies pertaining to the provision of medical services.
8. Ensure that Avenue Healthcare corporate governance policies are adhered to, including preventing, detecting, and reporting any fraud or criminal activities, and Implementing audit recommendations.
Person Specification
- Degree in Medical Laboratory Sciences with 5+ years’ experience in similar or related position.
- A valid practicing license from Kenya Medical Laboratory Technicians and Technologists Board
- Experience with accreditation such as SANAS/CAP/ISO and Laboratory QMS is highly desirable
- Strong interpersonal skills, team playing abilities, and communication skills.
- Highly responsive, ethical and responsible
