Quality & Service Specialist - Microbiology

UHN is Canada’s #1 hospital and the world’s #1 publicly funded hospital. With 10 sites and more than 44,000 TeamUHN members, UHN consists of Toronto General Hospital, Toronto Western Hospital, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, The Michener Institute of Education and West Park Healthcare Centre. As Canada's top research hospital, the scope of biomedical research and complexity of cases at UHN have made it a national and international source for discovery, education and patient care. UHN has the largest hospital-based research program in Canada, with major research in neurosciences, cardiology, transplantation, oncology, surgical innovation, infectious diseases, genomic medicine and rehabilitation medicine. UHN is a research hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto.

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Position Summary
The Quality and Service Specialist - Microbiology provides leadership for quality, service excellence, safety, and regulatory compliance programs within the Microbiology discipline. Working closely with laboratory leadership and quality partners, the role is responsible for developing and maintaining quality systems, supporting accreditation readiness, leading staff competency and technical validation activities, monitoring service performance, and promoting continuous quality improvement. The incumbent also supports patient safety investigations, participates in operational on-call coverage, contributes to discipline-specific research and quality projects, and champions a culture of safety and excellence in laboratory practice.

Duties

In addition to working alongside some of the most talented and inspiring healthcare professionals in the world, UHN offers a wide range of benefits, programs and perks. It is the comprehensiveness of these offerings that makes it a differentiating factor, allowing you to find value where it matters most to you, now and throughout your career at UHN.