Location: Admin and Facilities Planning and ConstStatus: Full Time 80 Hours
Shift: Days
SALARY RANGE: 119,620.80 - 185,432.00 YEARLY
General Summary:This position has overall responsibility for laboratory operations throughout the Bayhealth enterprise. Directs, establishes, and plans the overall policies and goals for a hospital's laboratory services. Works closely with hospital staff, department directors, and physicians to ensure the highest standards of quality and service are maintained. Writes and updates procedures and manuals as needed and reviews them annually to ensure that employees have current information needed to perform tests and procedures.
This role works in a dyad partnership with the Clinical Division Leader for the Pathology/Clinical Laboratory Division in Bayhealth Medical Group.
Responsibilities:1. Provide strong operational leadership as well as ensure adequate staffing, maintaining a high standard in recruiting, hiring, and training, and providing ongoing professional development for direct reports and the lab staff.
2. Develops both short and long-range strategic plans for the department provides general oversight of the Clinical and Anatomic Pathology laboratories including Blood Bank and on-site and off- site Point of Care testing.
3. Ensure that laboratory procedures are performed in accordance with prudent medical laboratory practice as defined by accepted standards of regulatory agencies and approved by the Medical Director of Laboratory Services.
4. Accountable for strategic and operational oversight of pathology services across the system. Responsible for assisting the medical director with physician recruitment, budget oversight, daily management of workflow and processes to ensure compliance with all CAP and regulatory standards. Also accountable for assessing and delivering performance evaluations annually of all pathology and PA staff.
5. In addition to the responsibilities for staff training, budgeting, capacity planning, facilities planning and regulatory compliance, the director will champion continuous process improvement efforts to streamline and simplify processes for scalability, increase laboratory throughput, reduce cost and continually improve quality by systematically monitoring and minimizing process variability.
6. The director will ensure that major process changes and enterprise software releases have timely, complete, and accurate user requirements and undergo appropriate user acceptance testing prior to implementation.
7. Maintains communication between the laboratory and hospital administration and other hospital departments and represents the laboratory at hospital Director/Manager meetings.
8. All other duties as assigned within the scope and range of job responsibilities
Required Education, Credential(s) and Experience:- Education: Master Degree Medical Technology Or a master's degree in a related field.
- Credential(s): Certified Medical Technologist
- Experience:
Required: Ten years of experience in a laboratory with min of seven of those years in progressive laboratory management.
Preferred Education, Credential(s) and Experience:- Education:
- Credential(s): Certification related to the position, if applicable. Certification related to the position, if applicable.
- Experience:
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