LAB DIRECTOR

WE ARE INSIGHT

At Insight Hospital and Medical Center- Chicago, we believe there is a better way to provide quality healthcare while achieving health equity. Our Chicago location looks forward to working closely with our neighbors and residents, to build a full-service community hospital in the Bronzeville area of Chicago; creating a comprehensive plan to increase services and meet community needs. With a growing team that is dedicated to delivering world-class service to everyone we meet, it is our mission to deliver the most compassionate, loving, expert, and impactful care in the world to our patients. Be a part of the Insight Chicago team that provides PATIENT CARE SECOND TO NONE! If you would like to be a part of our future team, please apply now!

Duties & Responsibilities:

Leads, directs, and monitors department CQI (Continuous Quality

Improvement), Safety, and Maintenance Programs:

• Also directs equipment maintenance, and record retention programs to ensure routine review, compliance, and action if required.
• Coordinates and directs functions of Laboratory Sections within the departments and as well as internal and external clients.
• Plan, lead, coach, and direct departmental staff for:

• Performance
• Professional growth
• Operational improvements
• Appropriate workload staffing levels
• Job placement
• Behaviors
• Hiring
• Discipline

Plans and manages departmental material assets:

• Evaluates and approves purchases of all departmental material resources including supplies, services, and capital equipment.
• Approves new Laboratory services, instrumentation, tests, and addition of new external clients with Team planning and implementation.
• Ensures Department compliance with all regulatory, licensing, and accrediting agencies including, but not limited to:

• College of American Pathologists (CAP)
• Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program (HFAP)
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
• Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH)

Plans, monitors, and corrects Fiscal and Staffing Budget performance:

• Plans Departmental Fiscal and Staffing Budget requirements.
• Monitors monthly budget performance indicators, daily workload, and staffing levels and makes adjustments if required.
• Responsible for self-development and education that provides the skills, knowledge, and effectiveness as a leader in a technically complex, multidisciplinary, and limited resource healthcare environment.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Bachelor’s Degree in science or biochemistry is required.
• Master’s Degree in science, healthcare, or business administration preferred.
• Medical Technologist certification preferred.
• Ten years of experience in a growing clinical laboratory is required.
• Knowledge of technical, clinical, and business functions to manage and direct a complex multi-professional clinical laboratory in a multi-disciplinary healthcare environment is required.
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills in a multi-professional, multi-disciplinary, and multi-cultural environment required.
• Leadership skills that develop departmental resources and direction through collaborative team building are required.
• Develops, implements, monitors, and adjusts resource budgets to meet department requirements required.
• Demonstrated analytical skills for sound and successful business decisions required.
• Ability to make dependent and independent decisions outside of established policies and practices required.
• Ability to simplify complex processes or situations to generate successful solutions required.
• Ability to problem solve and make the process and quality improvements required.

Insight Employees are required to be vaccinated for COVID-19 as a condition of employment, subject to accommodation for medical or sincerely held religious beliefs.

Insight is an equal opportunity employer and values workplace diversity!