Description ROLE: The Director is accountable for the operations of the inpatient nursing units. Responsible for the quality assessment, implementation, coordination, evaluation, and standardization of system wide inpatient care. Works in collaboration with the Nurse Executives, the Chief Nursing Officer, Support Services, Service line Directors and Medical Directors for the services. The Director plays a key leadership role in physician relationships, service excellence commitments for customer and staff and fiscal management.
The Director is the focused clinical leader for Acute Care Services. As such she/he is accountable for the quality assessment, implementation, coordination, evaluation, and standardization of system wide patient care. The Director also plays a key leadership role and participates in building and maintaining physician relationships, program development, customer satisfaction, budget preparation and execution, and works as appropriate with Marketing and Community Relations. The Director integrates with the organization's operations, participates in performance improvement activities and ensures professional and regulatory compliance is achieved in all areas of responsibility.
With passion, skill, creativity, respect, and a positive approach, the Director assumes accountability to peers, and functions as a strong team player in caring for patients. With self-direction and the ability to multitask, the Director assesses needs and patient expectations, delivers "best practice" to each patient and family member under his/her care. Collaborates with other team caregivers to achieve increased patient satisfaction, set and exceed patient expectations.
Our nursing practice reflects the values of collaboration, communication, coordination, integration, and empowerment, and establishing patient expectations.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: - Develops and implements standards and processes for the inpatient units that guide and support the delivery of patient care that are in compliance with professional, regulatory, and community standards. Supports and maintains services and programs to improve patient outcomes throughout the continuum of care.
- Provides direction, leadership and coordination of the Acute Care Services.
- Continually evaluates staffing levels based on patient care needs and acuity, changing health care environment, budgetary requirements and staff competency. Makes clinical rounds to evaluate patient care and provide positive feedback. Supports technology and information systems to enhance the clinical and service needs of customers. Assesses local and national trends and makes recommendations for changes in delivery systems.
- Establishes and maintains visible leadership role in clinical areas.
- Continuously works with physicians to assess and improve clinical outcomes and implement evidence based practices. Evaluates the performance of care and services provided with staff and physicians.
- Participates with business development and other service lines as requested in strategic planning, program development and marketing strategies.
- Serves as a coach and mentor to facilitate the success of colleagues and team members. Works with team members to define outcome driven goals and assist them in formulating a plan to achieve those goals. Ensures that performance improvement is included in each unit's goals for the year, and assists in establishing metrics for each area.
- Oversees budget preparation on the units. Is responsible for department's fiscal management. Communicates fiscal expectations for areas of responsibility to managers and works with them to achieve goals.
- Articulates the organization's mission, values, and vision and assists employees to understand how their jobs contribute to achieving organizational goals.
QUALIFICATIONS: Required Education and Experience - Masters Degree Nursing or related field
- Bachelors Degree Nursing, If Masters degree is not in Nursing
- At least 5 years administrative experience in an acute care setting
- Experience with Acute Care
- Demonstrated leadership ability.
- Must demonstrate advanced clinical and organizational skills related to operations of nursing units and patient care departments.
- Must demonstrate knowledge of administrative concepts, organizational behavior, management process, clinical practice standards, legal and ethical principles, health care economics, health and public policy, consumer health care issues, and health care evaluation and outcome measures.
- Must be able to demonstrate Transformational Leadership capabilities in order to inspire and lead teams.
- Must have knowledge of current technology, trends in health care.
- Must be able to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
- Must be able to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
- Must be able to effectively present information in English and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers and the general public.
- Must have interpersonal skills dealing with conflict management and resolution with peers, patients, families and the public.
- Must be able to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry.
- Must be able to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, rations, and proportions to practical situations.
- Must be able to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills; excellent interpersonal skills; ability to manage complex projects toward achievement of strategic goals; excellent leadership skills as demonstrated by collaborative methods and staff development; ability to problem solve, taking appropriate risks to support and implement new and creative solutions.
- Must have skills necessary to effect/influence departments and individuals who are not direct reports, through creation of planning groups, task forces, work groups, collaborations and alliances.
- Must be able to organize unit in emergent or crisis situations.
- Required upon hire: Washington Registered Nurse License (Vendor Managed)
Preferred Experience and Education: - Experience with large service line.
About Providence At Providence, our strength lies in Our Promise of "Know me, care for me, ease my way." Working at our family of organizations means that regardless of your role, we'll walk alongside you in your career, supporting you so you can support others. We provide best-in-class benefits and we foster an inclusive workplace where diversity is valued, and everyone is essential, heard and respected. Together, our 120,000 caregivers (all employees) serve in over 50 hospitals, over 1,000 clinics and a full range of health and social services across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. As a comprehensive health care organization, we are serving more people, advancing best practices and continuing our more than 100-year tradition of serving the poor and vulnerable.
The amounts listed are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.
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Requsition ID: 267671
Company: Swedish Jobs
Job Category: Nursing-Patient Facing
Job Function: Nursing
Job Schedule: Full time
Job Shift: Day
Career Track: Leadership
Department: 3903 SCH ADMINISTRATION
Address: WA Seattle th Ave
Work Location: Swedish Cherry Hill th-Seattle
Pay Range: $77.37 - $124.54
The amounts listed are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.
Check out our benefits page for more information about our Benefits and Rewards.
Our nonprofit Mission is clear: to improve the health and well-being of each patient we serve.
We take care of everyone in our Greater Seattle community including the uninsured or underinsured and we make investments that improve access to care in living our Vision of health for a better world. As one of our caregivers, your resilience and passion make our Mission a reality. In turn, we do our part to recognize and celebrate your achievements every day, empowering you to help others and grow in your career with us.
Our commitment to diversity and inclusion Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) is central to our mission. We engage in ongoing, robust recruitment practices for all levels and departments to bring the best and brightest talent to Swedish, prioritizing diversity in race, culture, gender identity or expression and sexual orientation, background, experience, talent and thought.
We foster an inclusive workplace where caregivers of differing backgrounds and perspectives can experience a community of mutual respect, inclusivity and collegiality, and know unequivocally that diversity is valued.
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