Hospital Laboratory Director – Georgetown, Tx – Up to $130,000.00 – Sign on bonus – Relocation assistance

Hospital Laboratory Director

POSITION TYPE: Allied Health

SPECIALTY UNIT: Laboratory Director – Hospital 

LOCATION: Georgetown, Tx

SHIFT: Monday - Friday, 8am-4pm - No Weekends

JOB TYPE: Full-Time Permanent

Job Description:

We are seeking a hospital-based Laboratory Director.

This position is based at and lead the laboratory team at this 400+ bed, full-service hospital that has been nationally recognized with many prestigious awards and accolades, including: Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals, a Health Grades Distinguished Hospital (Top 5%) for Clinical Excellence, The Joint Commission Certification as a Primary Stroke Center, accredited Chest Pain Center with PCI, and most recently, by the Joint Commission as a “Top Performer” on key quality measures.

Responsibilities:

• You will lead the 24-hour operations and activities of the clinical laboratory meeting both organizational goals and regulatory requirements
• Manage a Lab Staff of 40 to 50 people
• Direct and organize the operations of the hospital rapid-response laboratories
• Actively participate in strategic and budgetary planning
• Investigate, recommend and purchase equipment, supplies and instrumentation
• Provide direction to department personnel to achieve operational and technical excellence including workflow design, service quality, financial performance, and regulatory compliance
• You will be responsible to ensure weekly and monthly corporate key indicators are an accurate measurement of past and current performance
• Complete and conduct interviews, hiring, performance evaluations, disciplinary actions and staff development
• Develop monitoring systems for the collection, documentation and reporting of quality assessment and improvement data; extracts pertinent information from quality assessment and improvement studies, initiates corrective action plans, and re-monitors results
• Concurrently monitor resource utilization, including payroll, supplies and expenses, client volume and revenue variation reports, outpatient volume reports, mileage and expense logs
• Prepare and submit capital expenditure requests, department projections and annual budget.

Job Benefits:

We offer you an excellent total compensation package, including competitive salary and generous benefit package and growth opportunities. Your benefits include 401k, PTO medical, dental, flex spending, life, disability, tuition reimbursement, employee discount program, and employee stock purchase program.

Requirements:

• Baccalaureate Degree in Medical Technology, Biomedical Science, Biology or Chemistry required.
• Master’s Degree preferred
• National Certification as a Medical Technologist required, State license where required
• 7 years of progressive laboratory management experience is required with complex laboratory operations
• Hospital clinical laboratory experience preferred
• This role requires you to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 based on local, state and /or federal law or regulations (unless a medical or religious exemption is approved).