Position DetailsDepartment: PCH-MAIN | Lab Administration
Location: Phoenix
Shift: Mon-Fri, Days, 8am-5pm
Category: Director/Management
Posting #: 1074467
Employee Type: Full-Time
Position SummaryThe Laboratory Director is responsible for leading and directing the day to day and administrative management and operations of the Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Division. This position ensures standardization of policies, practices, quality, and financial operations across laboratory sections at all locations in the health system. The Director provides oversight and support to laboratory leadership to complete health system strategic initiatives and projects. This position receives supervision of work activities from the Vice President of Laboratory Services.
Position Duties - Participates in organizational and departmental quality and operational improvement initiatives. Works collaboratively with leaders, within and outside of department, to develop and monitor key clinical and financial metrics across all lab locations. Ensures established metrics align with organization-wide strategies and consistently meet customer needs. Looks for opportunities to incorporate improvements for safety and efficiency.
- Develops and maintains guidelines to ensure standardization of policies, test systems, standard operating procedures, regulatory/compliance practices, safety initiatives, and supply management to provide high quality services across all lab locations.
- Directs department processes to establish capital/operating budget, select equipment/middleware/lab information systems, negotiate terms of contracts with outside vendors as well as allocate personnel and financial resources across all lab locations.
- Directs process to create, maintain, and update job descriptions, including roles and responsibilities, to align with departmental and organizational strategic initiatives. Continuously monitors and makes recommendations to senior management on leadership structure, staffing plans, recruitment, and retention strategies to support growth and operational needs across all lab locations.
- Ensures onboarding, orientation, training, and competencies are completed in a consistent, effective manner for leaders and staff across all lab locations. Provides direction on leadership competencies and skill development. Provides direction to leaders on the implementation and management of succession planning/staff development plans.
- Works collaboratively with department leaders to allocate personnel, financial, IT, operational, and other resources to complete departmental initiatives and projects in a timely manner. Ensures established goals are met.
- Assesses opportunities to expand testing and lab services and makes recommendations to senior management. Provides guidance on the implementation of new services and ensures established performance/financial metrics are met
- Maintains professional and technical competency through constantly pursuing knowledge and self-improvement and remaining apprised of current trends, developments and awareness of latest technology and practices to improve outcomes.
- Creates and supports a unified culture of colleague positivity, supportiveness, safety, and honesty.
- Performs miscellaneous job related duties as requested.
