Director of Lab

The ideal candidate is a hands-on laboratory professional who enjoys building high-performing teams, improving processes, and ensuring the delivery of accurate, timely, and compliant diagnostic services that directly support exceptional patient outcomes. Saint Clare's Health includes CMS 5-Star Rated hospitals and is an award-winning provider of safe, high quality, compassionate care, serving the communities of Morris, Warren and Sussex counties.

Overview:

Director of Laboratory Services

Saint Clare's Health – Denville, NJ
Full-Time | Exempt
Starting Annual Salary: $97,760 to $141,585

 

Lead Laboratory Excellence. Drive Quality. Impact Patient Care.

 

Saint Clare's Health, a member of Prime Healthcare, is seeking an experienced and collaborative Director of Laboratory Services to provide strategic and operational leadership for laboratory services across our organization.

 

This is an opportunity for a results-driven healthcare leader who thrives in a fast-paced hospital environment and is passionate about quality, regulatory excellence, operational performance, and team development.

 

We are looking for a leader who can balance clinical excellence with operational efficiency, partner effectively with physicians and hospital leadership, and foster a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.

 

The ideal candidate is a hands-on laboratory professional who enjoys building high-performing teams, improving processes, and ensuring the delivery of accurate, timely, and compliant diagnostic services that directly support exceptional patient outcomes.

 

Responsibilities:

The Lab Director is responsible for the overall management of the clinical laboratory and/or multiple departments including, administrative, financial, compliance, quality improvement, technical, and personnel activities in accordance with established hospital and department policies and standards.

• Provides operational guidance to local site management. Ensures system integration of department structure, policy, procedure, information technology, supply chain, Human Resource, and quality assurance.
• Secure compliance of laboratory service with local, state, federal (CLIA), and other regulatory agency (CAP, TJC) standard. Takes on special projects or other assignments and completes them within timeframe.
• Meet and consults with Corporate Laboratory Operations Leadership for policies, procedures, forms, instrumentation, equipment, supplies, and LIS.
• Promotes standardization throughout the system. Ensure laboratories will meet or exceed established corporate/site KPIs in finance, quality, and service.
• Perform routine laboratory testing to support the department as needed.

Qualifications:

1. Bachelor of Science degree in a scientific field to meet requirements of Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act (CLIA).

2. Possession of a valid license or certificate of Clinical Laboratory Scientist or Medical Technologist or Medical Laboratory Scientist, ASCP preferred

3. Minimum 5 years supervisory clinical laboratory experience required.

4. General Accounting and statistics and financial operating experience

5. Quality Control and quality tools management courses desired

6. LEAN Six Sigma certification preferred

7. Master’s Degree preferred.

 

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At Saint Clare's Health, our dedicated team of professionals is committed to our core values of quality, compassion, and community. As a member of Prime Healthcare, Saint Clare's Health is actively seeking new members to join its award-winning team!

 

Saint Clare's Health includes CMS 5-Star Rated hospitals and is an award-winning provider of safe, high quality, compassionate care, serving the communities of Morris, Warren and Sussex counties. Its network of hospitals and healthcare facilities include Denville Hospital, Dover Hospital, Behavioral Health Centers in Boonton, Denville, and Parsippany, and an Imaging Center in Parsippany, among other satellite locations. The hospitals have received multiple quality awards including Leapfrog “A” ratings for patient safety; Healthgrades recognition for orthopedic surgery, treatment of stroke, heart care, various surgical procedures, and more. For information, visit www.saintclares.com.

Pay Transparency:

Saint Clare's Health offers competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package that provides employees the flexibility to tailor benefits according to their individual needs. Our Total Rewards package includes, but is not limited to, paid time off, a 401K retirement plan, medical, dental, and vision coverage, tuition reimbursement, and many more voluntary benefit options.  Benefits may vary based on employment status, i.e. full-time, part-time, per diem or temporary.  A reasonable compensation estimate for this role, which includes estimated wages, benefits, and other forms of compensation, is $97,760 to $141,585 on an annualized basis. The exact starting compensation to be offered will be determined at the time of selecting an applicant for hire, in which a wide range of factors will be considered, including but not limited to, skillset, years of applicable experience, education, credentials and licensure.

 

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