Department Manager- Lab Services - Pre Analytics - FT

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Job Requisition ID:
R

Job Category:
Health System

Organization:
Clinical Lab

Location/s:
Main Campus Jackson

Job Title:
Department Manager- Lab Services - Pre Analytics - FT

Job Summary:
To provide leadership and management to all lab personnel and ancillary personnel within an assigned area in a lab setting. Manages all clinical functions and operations of the assigned area. Ensures efficient and effective delivery of laboratory services and ensures compliance with administrative, regulatory, and clinical policies.

Education & Experience

Bachelors or higher degree in area of assignment; Medical Technology/Clinical Lab services or Cytotechnology. Meets minimum qualifications for Registered Medical Technologist, Cytotechnologist or Histotechnologist, and 6 years of related experience in certified specialty.

Certifications, licenses or registration required: CT (ASCP) Technologist in Cytotechnology or CT (ASCP) = cytotechnologist (American society of clinical pathologist) or MLS (ASCP) Medical Laboratory Scientist (American society of clinical pathologists) CHS (ABHI) Certified Histocompatibility Specialist (American board of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics) HT(ASCP) Histotechnician HTL (ASCP) Histotechnologist (American Board of Histocompatibility and CHS (ABHI) or MT (American Association of Bioanalysts)

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Knowledge of laboratory and experience with regulatory and accreditation of laboratory operations. Knowledge of laboratory management.

Responsibilities

• Develops and implements effective technical quality control and performance improvement programs that meet the need of system initiatives. Monitors, reports, and improves key quality performance indicators.
• Provides strategic, creative and innovative leadership to assigned areas while keeping departmental goals as a focus. Maintains list of projects, goals, and ideas for future. Demonstrates ability to manage projects and complete them successfully and in a timely manner.
• Ensures regulatory and accreditation are met system wide. Facilitates system technical work teams and participates in system-wide teams and committees.
• Provides effective personnel management. Ensures appropriate staffing, productivity, training, development and technical competence are maintained. Enforces policies and administers discipline appropriately. Performs and facilitates employee performance reviews. Focuses on employee satisfaction and retention. Interviews, selects and hires employees. Encourages and facilitates employee development.
• Networks outside department and facility, creating business relationships with others. Maintains productive relationship with medical and section director(s). Stays abreast of coming trends in laboratory medicine.
• Provides effective system technical leadership for all sites through direction, oversight, goal setting, and consultation that are consistent with the strategies, goals and budget.
• Creates, develops and facilitates standardization of technical procedures. Performs business case analysis on test offerings and operations to assure appropriate levels of service are maintained at each site.
• Provides financial management of assigned areas, technical projects and issues to ensure cost effective operations. Looks for revenue and cost-saving ideas.
• Facilitates technical purchasing efforts including contractual and capital negotiations to ensure best values are obtained and increase cost effectiveness.
• Serves as a communication liaison for the laboratory services. Interacts with hospital site laboratories, physicians and other healthcare professionals. Promotes teamwork and customer service with organizational initiatives.
• The duties listed are general in nature and are examples of the duties and responsibilities performed and are not meant to be construed as exclusive or all-inclusive. Management retains the right to add or change duties at any time.

Physical and Environmental Demands
Requires frequent exposure to unpleasant or disagreeable physical environment such as high noise level and exposure to heat and cold, occasional handling or working with potentially dangerous equipment, constant exposure to bio hazardous conditions such as risk of radiation exposure, blood borne pathogens, fumes or airborne particles, and/or toxic or caustic chemicals which mandate attention to safety considerations, frequent working hours significantly beyond regularly scheduled hours, frequent travelling to offsite locations, frequent activities subject to significant volume changes of a seasonal/clinical nature, constant work produced subject to precise measures of quantity and quality, occasional bending, occasional lifting and carrying up to 50 pounds, occasional crawling, occasional crouching/stooping, occasional driving, occasional kneeling, occasional pushing/pulling, occasional reaching, frequent sitting, constant standing, frequent twisting, and constant walking. (occasional-up to 20%, frequent-from 21% to 50%, constant-51% or more)

Time Type:
Full time

FLSA Designation/Job Exempt:
Yes

Pay Class:
Salary

FTE %:
100

Work Shift:
Day

Benefits Eligibility:
Benefits Eligible

Job Posting Date:
10/11/2021

Job Closing Date (open until filled if no date specified):