Senior Director - Laboratory - Luminis Health

Position Objective:

Plans, organizes, and direct the overall operations of the laboratory across the health system.

Essential Job Duties:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

1. Provides the strategic vision for laboratory and proactively works to align resources and process across the health system. Annually develops, communicates, and coordinates area specific strategic plans that are consistent with the organizational goals, vision, and mission statement. Proactively looks to grow “smart” volumes and drives department profitability.
2. Creates a work environment that positively promotes process improvement, innovation, and collaboration. Explores opportunities to add value to job (innovative ideas) to benefit the organization and taking ownership of the outcome.
3. Directs overall operational functions for assigned areas. Ensures quality assurance program. Monitors compliance activities as required by various laboratory regulatory agencies. Ensures necessary follow-up, actions, changes as required for resolution of identified issues within meaningful time frame.
4. Projects volumes, needs, and clinical services on an annual basis justifying variances and initiating corrective actions to adjust variances accordingly. Develops and oversees departmental budgets to concur with organizational and departmental goals.
5. Directs the ongoing activities of personnel related to skills competency targets and adherence to staffing policies to assure efficiency of resources. Maintains laboratory staff results by counseling and disciplining employees; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results.
6. Participates in selection, assessment and negotiation for laboratory equipment, services and materials. Responsible for participation in capital equipment funding by presentation of required information to facilitate committee in decisions and selections. Evaluates and establishes cost for individual tests; determines most cost-effective method for performing testing; negotiates with vendors for best pricing.
7. In conjunction with departmental leadership, maintains medical laboratory productivity by monitoring workload of functional areas; identifying peak and slack periods; making operational and staffing adjustment.
8. Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies. Maintains current knowledge of discipline-specific coding and billing to ensure charges are appropriately created and applied to patient and/or client accounts
9. Resolves problems by consulting with pathologists, laboratory leadership, technical specialists, physician, nurses, and other healthcare professionals; actively participating in committee meetings.
10. Ensures departmental compliance with applicable regulatory agencies including checklist compliance and staff competency. Maintains an organized record keeping system that is regulatory inspection-ready at all times.

Educational/Experience Requirements:

Required Minimum Education: 

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university with course work sufficient to meet the requirements of the American Society of Clinical Pathology (ASCP) for certification as a Medical Laboratory Scientist, Medical Technologist, Histotechnologist, Cytotechnologist, Specialist, or HEW (MT).
• Master’s Degree in Laboratory Management, Hospital Administration, or Business Administration, preferred.

Required Minimum Experience:

• Ten years of experience working in an acute care facility as a Medical Laboratory Scientist, Medical Technologist, Histotechnologist, or Cytotechnologist;
• Five years of experience in laboratory management;
• Two years of experience leading or supervising staff, preferred.

Required License/Certifications:  

• MLS(ASCP), MT(ASCP), HTL(ASCP), CT(ASCP), categorical or specialist (ASCP), or MT(AMT)

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities: 

• Ability to work cooperatively with all types of personalities both inside and outside the organization.
• Ability to travel between locations.

Working Conditions, Equipment, Physical Demands:

Physical Demands – Medium Duty

The physical demands and work environment that have been described are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

There is a reasonable expectation that employees in this position will be exposed to blood-borne pathogens.

The above is intended to describe the general content of and requirements for the performance of this job. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities or requirements.