Director Advanced Practice Institute

About the role

The Director Advanced Practice — Institute provides institute-level APP leadership and serves as the primary APP program resource for institute leadership. The role is responsible for aligning APP workforce strategy, recruitment and retention priorities, collaborative practice models, onboarding execution, competency, professional development, quality and performance expectations, and operational priorities across institute services.

Responsibilities

• Provides institute-level APP leadership across institute services and serves as the central APP leadership point of coordination for the institute.
• Works collaboratively with institute executive and medical leadership, physician leaders, operational leaders, the Assistant Vice President for Advanced Practice, and applicable APP oversight or governance structures to support institute operations, strategic planning, and APP program development.
• Serves as the primary institute resource regarding APP utilization, collaborative practice models, workforce deployment, role design, growth planning, and care model development across institute services.
• Promotes APP engagement, mentorship, communication, and leadership development within the institute and supports APP leaders in addressing volume growth, complexity, coverage, and organizational-design needs.
• Partners with Medical Staff Affairs, Credentialing/CVO, enterprise advanced practice leadership, and physician leaders on APP credentialing, privileging, competency support, FPPE/OPPE processes, and institute-level interpretation of APP professional-practice expectations.
• Collaborates with department chairs, medical staff leadership, Human Resources, Legal, and institute leadership on APP professionalism, conduct, and performance issues and escalates significant concerns through appropriate channels.
• Provides leadership for APP-related quality, safety, patient experience, access, and performance priorities within the institute and partners with quality and operational leaders to identify and implement improvement opportunities.
• Uses clinical, operational, and financial data, including productivity, ROI, access, staffing, quality, and utilization metrics, to inform APP workforce planning, performance oversight, APP value measurement, and operational decision-making within institute services.
• Serves as the APP leadership representative for the institute in enterprise APP forums and cross-functional discussions, communicates enterprise APP priorities and decisions to institute APP leaders and stakeholders, and escalates institute APP issues, opportunities, and structural needs to enterprise advanced practice leadership.
• Participates in committees and activities that enhance patient care, APP practice, operations, education, research, and clinical integration across the institute.

Requirements

• Current licensure in one of the following issued by the state in which services will be provided: Advanced Practice RN Licensure AND board certification Physician’s Assistant License AND board certification
• To be completed as established by department: (Administered at Department level) Basic Life Support (BLS) certification Advanced Life Support (ACLS)

Preferred Qualifications

• Doctoral degree or additional advanced degree such as DNP, DMSc, MBA, MHA, or PhD.
• Experience partnering with physicians and operational leaders in a matrixed environment.
• Experience with APP workforce planning, APP utilization, APP development, and quality / performance oversight.