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The Mount Sinai Health System Director Clinical Lab-Clinical Lab Administration - WST- Mount Sinai West- Full Time- Days in New York, New York
JOB DESCRIPTION
Director Clinical Lab-Clinical Lab Administration - WST- Mount Sinai West- Full Time- Days
The Director of Laboratory is responsible for overseeing the staff and operations within the Mount Sinai Health System at the assigned campuses to ensure optimal results and high employee engagement. The Director ensures that the department is run according to institutional policies and any applicable regulatory requirements. The Director ensures operational excellence through leading continuous improvement activities. Serves as liaison with external funding agencies, regulatory agencies and other collaborating institutions. Assists Senior management in the development of new initiatives. Works with Division Directors and Program Directors to anticipate daily challenges.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Responsibilities include developing a comprehensive knowledge of Mount Sinai Health System policies and procedures and all regulatory governing agencies.
Establishes goals and objectives for the department that are consistent with Mount Sinai Hospital or School of Medicines policies and federal, state and local regulations. This may include defining the scope of specific departmental projects, and analyzing requirements to execute those projects successfully.
Ensures cross-departmental consistency in meeting and administrative compliance standards; provides leadership and guidance to faculty and staff in matters related to understanding of overall departmental goals and objectives, and individual roles and responsibilities in this regard
Oversees operations to support Mount Sinai Health System, and the Icahn School of Medicine of Mount Sinai; uses data and fact-based problem solving techniques to improve processes and outcomes. Ensures that all operations run according to institutional and departmental policies and in accordance with any government or regulatory requirements as applicable.
Recruits, orients, trains, coaches, counsels, mentors, disciplines, and evaluates staff in accordance with all internal policies and procedures. Communicates values, strategies, and objectives of department or division on a regular basis. Assigns accountabilities, delegates tasks and responsibilities, and plans, monitors and appraises job performance.
Develops, maintains and reconciles departmental budget with financial responsibility and oversight for department or division.
Plans, develops, and/or maintains departmental standard operating procedures. Regularly reviews policies and procedures and makes changes, or recommends changes to superiors as necessary.
Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies.
Provides leadership for staff members in the form of ongoing training, performance feedback, goal setting, and problem resolution; cultivate a culture of innovation and creativity in service of better patient care.
Works directly with the facility senior leader, Site Chairman and the site Medical Laboratory Director to identify and implement high impact operational initiatives.Collaborates with department senior leadership to develop short term and long range plans. Also serves as primary point-of-contact for interdepartmental communications, where applicable, in order to maintain standards, implement improvements, define and measure progress and meet business objectives.Establishes and maintains collaborative relationships within and outside of the Health System in order to identify and support local and corporate initiatives.
Serves as the department representative to the institution serving and participating on committees and on projects as invited and requested.
Responsible for creating, reviewing and/or updating policies and procedures pertaining to department specific goals and objectives.
Plans budget needs by analyzing short and long-term program plans. Collaborates with the Chief Financial Officer to assure the completion of the annual budget and financial monitoring.
Assures the financial systems are in place to properly run the department. Ensures compliance with MSMC policies and procedures.
Participates in the approval process for clinical operation financial transactions for the laboratories.
Implement quality assurance programs and oversees monitoring activities to meet standards and regulations of accrediting agencies such as The Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (TJC),New York State and City Department of Health. (NYSDOH), College of American Pathologists (CAP).
Oversees activities of the Residency Coordinator and oversees the Residency Training Program including budget preparation, review of expenditures and sign of payments and stipends.
Serves as a mentor and coach in Lean Strategy development, the deployment of Lean methodology, change management and problem solving.
QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelors Degree Required, Masters Degree Preferred.
Minimum of seven years experience in health care operations leadership
Minimum of ten years experience in laboratory operations
Experience in strategic planning and execution, formulating policy, building and developing financial plans, managing resources and leading successful teams.
Experience with integrated healthcare delivery systems is desirable.
Strong capability in data analytics, and ability to utilize data for problem solving and root cause analysis to drive continuous improvement. . Proven track record of achieving breakthrough results through implementation of large-scale projects and value-added change.
Minimum of 3 years direct experience with Lean or Six Sigma experience strongly preferred
Name: Supervisor/manager qualified Issuing Agency: NYSDOH
Non-Bargaining Unit, BAM - Clinical Lab Administration - WST, Mount Sinai West
REQUIRED SKILLS
Microsoft Office Suite
ABOUT US
Strength Through Diversity
The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:
Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.
At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization. We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally.
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“About the Mount Sinai Health System:
Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.
The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.”
EOE Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans
Requisition ID : 3017732