UCLA Health

Laboratory Quality & Compliance Safety Specialist - West Valley Hospital

UCLA Health  •  $120k - $273k/yr  •  Onsite  •  12 days ago
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Job Description


General Information

Work Location: West Hills, CA, USA

Onsite or Remote

Fully On-Site

Work Schedule

Monday – Friday, 7:00am – 3:30pm

Posted Date

08/11/2026
Salary Range $119700 - 272700 Annually

Employment Type

2 - Staff: Career

Duration

Indefinite

Job #

32321


Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Join UCLA Health and use your passion for clinical laboratory compliance, 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, Compliance/Education and Safety Specialist for UCLA West Valley Medical Center laboratory, your primary duties will include:

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

•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.

•Assist with the CLS student program, continuing education and CLS career track programs, department staff orientation, and the safety program.

Salary Range: $119,700.00/year - $272,700.00/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 an 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; or have filed an appeal of a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer.

Current/former UC employees are subject to a personnel file review.
UCLA Health

About UCLA Health

For more than half a century, UCLA Health has provided the best in healthcare and the latest in medical technology to the people of Los Angeles and throughout the world.

Comprised of Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, UCLA Medical Center Santa Monica, Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA, UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital, UCLA West Valley Medical Center and the UCLA Medical Group with its wide-reaching system of primary-care and specialty-care offices throughout the region, UCLA Health is among the most comprehensive and advanced healthcare systems in the world.

Our physicians are world leaders in the diagnosis and treatment of complex illnesses, and our hospitals are among the best in the country. Consistently ranked one of the top ten hospitals in the nation and the best medical center in the western United States by U.S. News & World Report, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center is at the cutting edge of biomedical research, and our doctors and scientists are leaders in performing pioneering work across an astounding range of disciplines, from organ transplantation and cardiac surgery to neurosurgery and cancer treatment, and bringing the latest discoveries to virtually every field of medicine.

Industry
Healthcare & Social Services
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Los Angeles, CA
Year Founded
1955
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