Associate Director, Lab Services, Full Time, Up to $25,000 Sign-on Bonus at Jackson Health System

Department: Jackson Memorial Hospital - Core Lab

Address: 1611 NW 12th Ave, Miami, Florida, 33136

**Sign-on bonus eligible up to $25,000 Sign-on Bonus**

Summary

The Associate Director of Laboratory Services oversees a multi-disciplinary team to meet regulatory standards and optimize efficiency within budget constraints. Fosters ethical business practices, ensures customer-focused systems, and upholds accountability in clinical and support staff. Responsibilities also includes in staff management, collaboration with executives on policies, and development of clinical care and patient education programs.

Responsibilities

• Ensures maximum efficiency and responsiveness within budgeted resource allocations.
• Manages a multi-disciplinary, multi-skilled workforce to comply with standards set by accrediting, licensing, regulatory agencies, and the Public Health Trust.
• Shared responsibility includes developing and maintaining effective working relationships with all service-providing disciplines while conducting business ethically and respecting customers' rights.
• Develops and implements customer-focused systems, processes, and behaviors. Establishes systems of accountability for clinical, clerical, and support personnel to ensure timely and accurate customer service.
• Provides leadership through developing, communicating, implementing, and evaluating the mission, goals, and objectives of the Lab Services area, ensuring alignment with the Division, Medical Staff, and Public Health Trust.
• Develops ongoing Performance Improvement plan, as well as communicates, implements, and evaluates, aligning with the philosophy of the Executive Performance Improvement Council and the department Performance Improvement Council.
• Primary responsibility includes ensuring that clinical, administrative, and environmental issues are communicated and understood within the department and Public Health Trust.
• Ensures appropriate technology and systems are used and analyzed to convey information effectively.
• Conducts staff recruitment, retention, evaluation, and motivation. Implements department goals and responsibilities.
• Responsible for staff development participation in orientation, training, and mandatory educational programs.

Experience

Generally requires 5 to 7 years of related experience. Management experience is required.

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field is required. Master's degree is preferred.

Why Jackson

Jackson Memorial Hospital is the flagship hospital for Jackson Health System and it has been a beacon of medical excellence and community care for more than a century. Throughout its rich and storied history, Jackson Memorial - located in the heart of the City of Miami - has been ground zero for some of the world's greatest medical breakthroughs and important moments in South Florida. We've grown into one of the nation's largest public hospitals, and one of the few that is also a world-class academic medical center with a proud mission and proven success. Jackson Memorial is an accredited, tertiary teaching hospital with 1,500 licensed beds, where nearly every medical specialty is provided by some of the world's most skilled and highly regarded multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals.

Credentials

Valid license or certification is required as needed, based on the job or specialty.

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