Director Imaging Services

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Director of Imaging Services, you will provide strategic leadership and operational oversight for all diagnostic imaging aspects, ensuring safe, high-quality, and efficient services that meet patient and organizational needs.

Every day you will manage a multi-disciplinary team, fostering excellence and continuous improvement. You will be responsible for strategic planning, financial management, and technology implementation within the department, ensuring strict compliance with all regulatory bodies. You will collaborate with physicians and clinical leaders to optimize patient flow and service delivery, champion patient satification, and lead initiatives for operational efficiency and clinical outcomes.

To be successful in this role, you will possess extensive leadership experience in a complex imaging environment, deep knowledge of imaging modalities and accreditation standards, and strong operational financial, and strategic planning skils.

• Operational Accountability:
  Plans, directs and evaluates, through subordinate managers, the programs, systems, operations and resources of the assigned functions/work sites to assure the safe and appropriate delivery of diagnostic/therapeutic patient care, achievement of clinical core measurement scores, and to ensure that all activities are conducted in a timely and cost-effective manner and in compliance with organizational values, professional standards, internal policies/standards/procedures and applicable regulatory requirements;
  
  produces and presents reports on key performance indicators and other significant benchmarking metrics. Ensures the application of consistent practices relating to clinical/administrative operations, customer service, human resources activities and VMFH standards; collaborates with medical staff to develop and implement new clinical systems/programs to enhance existing services and raise the standard of care for the patient population served. Directs the development, implementation and evaluation of new/revised standards, policies, procedures, guidelines, training materials and/or general communications in support of assigned clinical area(s) to ensure consistency with the philosophy/values of the organization and compliance with applicable regulatory/accreditation requirements;
  
  reviews training materials prior to assimilation into training curricula; ensures that all clinical and related support activities are fully documented in accordance with the standards and practices of the organization; ensures that employees understand and apply internal guidelines appropriately, and monitors compliance with all regulatory requirements. Ensures the full optimization of available information technology to achievement of overall business objectives;
  
  participates in the development of formal strategic/tactical plans, to include both short- and long-term business planning, with full accountability for achievement of plan objectives; presents and gains support for recommendations and directs project management efforts to develop/implement planning objectives.

• Resource Management/Budget Administration. Determines resources needed to accomplish performance objectives and oversees activities and resources in a manner that is fiscally responsible and in accordance with VMFH policies and standards; participates in the preparation of the annual operating/capital budget for the service line identifies, aligns and optimizes resources to positively impact organizational strategies towards achievement of goals; exercises effective cost control by monitoring and adjusting expenses as needed to stay within budget;
  
  ensures that administrative infrastructure is in place to maximize revenue capture; approves expenditures within defined scope of responsibility; identifies negative variances and develops action plans to document, address and effectively resolve in a timely manner; oversees the preparation of complete and accurate financial, budget, activity and productivity information, including variance reports, financial projections and other statistical reports; keeps Associate Administrator apprised of all…