Director Laboratory Services

Company: Midland Health
Location: Midland
Posted on: May 27, 2023

Job Description:

Job Description
To provide expert, competent, credible, visible leadership serving to advocatefor the laboratory; supports shared decision-making; and allocates resources to support staff.
SHIFT AND SCHEDULE
Full Time; Monday-Friday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. -ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS/PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS

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• Articulating a clear view of the preferred future, resulting from global analysis, inorder to lead other people and the organization to this desired or preferred future.
  
• Effective communication by the leader as well as trust and confidence in leaders arethe most reliable predictors of employee engagement and satisfaction in anorganization.
  
• Creating and sustaining cultures that support laboratory staff to do their best work. Beskilled communicators, team builders, agents for positive change, committed toservice, results oriented and role models for collaborative practice.
  
• Being visible and constantly communicating with the workforce, the reality andmagnitude of change, the plan for transition and opportunities that exist for them.
  
• -Assess, manage and develop oneself in order to preserve and optimize relationshipsand add value to the outcomes of Midland Memorial Hospital. This requires skill in thecore competencies of self-knowledge, strategic vision, risk-taking and creativity,interpersonal and communication effectiveness and inspiration.
  
• Unwavering commitment to innovate and transform the work of professionallaboratory science and the courage to move from "working within a framework"(transactional leader) to one of "working to change the framework" (transformationalleader).EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
  
• Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree preferred.
  
• Must show documentation of successful completion of a Clinical Laboratory Sciencetraining program.
  
• Minimum of four years laboratory experience.CERTIFICATION/LICENSURE
  
• Specialist eligible. (Chemistry (SC), Hematology (SH), Microbiology (SM), Blood Bank(SBB)
  
• Must provide documentation of passing a National Certification exam (ASCP, CSA,etc.).PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTSTo perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essentialresponsibility satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individualswith disabilities to perform the essential functions. The individual must be able to:
  
• Stand, walk, sit, stoop, reach, lift, see, speak and hear. Lifting is limited to 35 lbs. forclinical staff and to 50 lbs. for non-clinical staff. The individual must use an assisted-liftdevice or get another individual(s) to assist with the lift that is over these maximum limits.SUPERVISION REQUIREMENTS
  
• The Director of Laboratory Services reports directly to the Vice President, AncillaryServices.
  
• Supervises Managers/ Coordinators and staff of the division.
  
• Collaboratively works with all organization leaders, including the Medical Director of theLaboratory.
  

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