Skip to main content

Search Open Positions

Director Laboratory

Job ID: 2503019868-0 Date posted: 07/08/2025 Facility: Hi-Desert Medical Center
Apply Now

Job Details

Description

Welcome to Hi-Desert Medical Center, where you’ll benefit from:

A 59-bed acute primary care facility offering you and your family first-rate health care close to home
A wide range of quality inpatient and outpatient diagnostic, treatment and rehabilitation services, home health and hospice services, and a variety of community outreach programs
A dedicated team of quality, caring, health care professionals

Position Summary
Responsible for all aspects of quality patient care in the Laboratory supervisory role.

Shift: Days

Hours:

2503019868

Primary Duties  
1.    Selects, trains/orients and assigns department staff.  Contributes to the development of the District standards of performance, evaluates performance, and initiates or makes recommendations for personnel actions.
2.    Develop department goals and objectives, and establishes and implements policies and procedures for department operation.
3.    Develops and recommends department operating budget in accordance with department goals and objectives and ensures that department budget is used as a guideline for operations.
4.    Directs the preparation and maintenance of department reports.  Prepares periodic reports as required.
5.    Maintains cap workload units established in budget through appropriate staffing patterns according to census on a daily basis.
6.    Maintains communication, posting interdepartmental memos within 24 hours of receipt, distributing pertinent messages and checking for staff responses.
7.    Completes orientation checklist with each new employee within 48 hours of hire.  Maintains employee profile of each employee, assuring bi-annual renewal of certification and update of task inventory on an ongoing basis.
8.    Maintains coaching for performance program with all employees submitting performance summary reports annually 2 weeks prior to the employee’s review date.
9.    Maintains positive demeanor in keeping with patient care philosophy.
10.    Provides 24-hours a day availability or coverage for departmental supervision.
11.    Acts as a role model to the Laboratory Staff.
12.    Maintains professional growth and development through seminars, workshops, and professional affiliations to keep abreast of latest trends in field of expertise.
13.    Demonstrates competence in the care of neonatal, infant, adolescent, adult, geriatric and pediatric patients (when/if assigned to these patients) relative to determining each patient’s age-related and other physical, psychological and cultural needs and carrying out patient care activities.
14.    Participates in hospital/medical staff committee meetings as required.
15.    Ensures that department(s) operates within or above guidelines established by regulatory/review agencies.
16.    Quality Management
    Policy and procedure changes are defined and communicated in a clear manner.
    Solicits appropriate information and feedback from internal and external customers to improve the performance of the division.
    Can demonstrate at least one improvement of a department key function that was a result of a CQI process.
17.    Interdepartmental/intradepartmental conflicts are resolved using a CQI approach.
18.    Participates as a team member.
    Establishes and maintains productivity standards of patient services delivery consistent with Hospice standards.
19.  Performs other related duties as assigned or requested.
 

Qualifications

Minimum Education
    Bachelors Degree

Preferred  Education
    Master’s Degree

Minimum Experience
    5 years experience, previous supervisory experience.
Licensure
    Requires California licensure as a Clinical Laboratory Scientist

 

 

Tenet complies with federal, state, and/or local laws regarding mandatory vaccination of its workforce. If you are offered this position and must be vaccinated under any applicable law, you will be required to show proof of full vaccination or obtain an approval of a religious or medical exemption prior to your start date. If you receive an exemption from the vaccination requirement, you will be required to submit to regular testing in accordance with the law.     
 



Pay Range: $56.42 - $90.28 **Individual wages are determined based upon a number of factors including, but not limited to, an individual’s qualifications and experience ***Calculated based on a full time position

Employment practices will not be influenced or affected by an applicant’s or employee’s race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status or any other legally protected status. Tenet will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship.
Tenet participates in the E-Verify program. Follow the link below for additional information.

E-Verify: http://www.uscis.gov/e-verify

Sign up for Job Alerts

From roles that are right for you to new opportunities, we’ll keep you up to date with job openings and more. Select a category or location of interest below and click the add button.

Interested In (visually hidden)

  • Laboratory, Joshua Tree, California, United StatesRemove

Jobs for You

Nurse with mother and newborn

Tenet - A Community
Built on Care.

Across the country, the Tenet family includes 110,000 employees working in more than 65 hospitals and over 475 outpatient centers. We’re all focused on delivering the right care in the right place at the right time.

At Tenet, the impact of our work spreads far and deep across the many dimensions of healthcare that we touch. Every day, our employees and physicians foster a compassionate environment for care and healing in the communities we serve. We take pride in what we do, we are passionate about our chosen path, and we take seriously the true privilege we have in serving others as a Community Built on Care.

Learn About Opportunities Across Tenet
Top of page