Senior Director Pathology​/Clinical Laboratory Division

Location US:

DE:

Dover

Post Date 10/22/2026

Category Professional

Close Date

Employment Type

Employee

If you care about the opportunity to grow, to make a difference, to build a future and a life, then we just might have the career for you. Care to talk?

Bayhealth Medical Center is Central and Southern Delaware’s healthcare leader with hospitals in Dover and Milford, a s well as stand
-alone Emergency Department in Smyrna and a hybrid E mergency Department and Urgent Care in Milton . We offer various practice settings throughout Kent and Sussex Counties. Bayhealth Medical Center Kent Campus is 90 minutes from Philadelphia, Washington, DC and Baltimore . Our Sussex Campus is 30 minutes to the Delaware beaches and relaxation in the sand!

Bayhealth Medical Center offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package (for eligible positions) including:

• Generous Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
• Matching 401(k)/403(b) Plans
• Excellent Health, Dental, and Vision
• Disability and Life Insurance options
• On Site Child Care
• Educational Reimbursement
• Health Care and Dependent Care Flex Spending Accounts
• Plus, an array of Voluntary Benefits to include Critical Care Coverage and more!

Location:
Admin and Facilities Planning and Const

Status: Full Time 80 Hours

Shift: Days

SALARY RANGE: -  YEARLY

General

Summary:

This position has overall responsibility for laboratory operations throughout the Bayhealth enterprise. Directs, establishes, and plans the overall policies and goals for a hospital's laboratory services. Works closely with hospital staff, department directors, and physicians to ensure the highest standards of quality and service are maintained. Writes and updates procedures and manuals as needed and reviews them annually to ensure that employees have current information needed to perform tests and procedures.

This role works in a dyad partnership with the Clinical Division Leader for the Pathology/Clinical Laboratory Division in Bayhealth Medical Group.

Responsibilities:

1. Provide strong operational leadership as well as ensure adequate staffing, maintaining a high standard in recruiting, hiring, and training, and providing ongoing professional development for direct reports and the lab staff.
2. Develops both short and long-range strategic plans for the department provides general oversight of the Clinical and Anatomic Pathology laboratories including Blood Bank and on-site and off- site Point of Care testing.
3. Ensure that laboratory procedures are performed in accordance with prudent medical laboratory practice as defined by accepted standards of regulatory agencies and approved by the Medical Director of Laboratory Services.
4. Accountable for strategic and operational oversight of pathology services across the system. Responsible for assisting the medical director with physician recruitment, budget oversight, daily management of workflow and processes to ensure compliance with all CAP and regulatory standards. Also accountable for assessing and delivering performance evaluations annually of all pathology and PA staff.
5. In addition to the responsibilities for staff training, budgeting, capacity planning, facilities planning and regulatory compliance, the director will champion continuous process improvement efforts to streamline and simplify processes for scalability, increase laboratory throughput, reduce cost and continually improve quality by systematically monitoring and minimizing process variability.
6. The director will ensure that major process changes and enterprise software releases have timely, complete, and accurate user requirements and undergo appropriate user acceptance testing prior to implementation.
7. Maintains…