Director Advanced Practice WVUH and UHA

About the role

The Director Advanced Practice - WVUH and UHA provides local advanced practice leadership for the flagship academic medical center and serves as the primary advanced practice professional (APP) leadership liaison for West Virginia University Hospitals (WVUH) and University Health Associates (UHA) employed APPs.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) across inpatient, ambulatory, procedural, and specialty practice settings at WVUH/UHA, serving as the central APP leadership point of coordination for the flagship academic medical center.
• Partner with executive, physician, nursing, and operational leaders, including the local Chief Medical Officer, Chief Nursing Officer, department leadership, and the enterprise AVP for Advanced Practice, to support APP professional practice, workforce planning, program development, and local operating priorities.
• Establish, lead, and support local APP governance structures that align APP chiefs, leads, and specialty APP leaders around communication pathways, decision-making processes, leadership expectations, and operational priorities.
• Translate enterprise advanced practice strategy, policies, standards, and priorities into effective local implementation, ensuring consistent execution across clinical settings and alignment with organizational goals.
• Lead APP workforce strategy and operational planning in partnership with physician, nursing, and operational leaders, including role design, patient population alignment, service-line integration, staffing and coverage models, deployment, and top-of-license practice to improve access, quality, efficiency, and team-based care.
• Provide day-to-day leadership support for APP operations to promote effective, efficient, and patient-centered service delivery across WVUH/UHA.
• Support implementation of APP onboarding, professional development, and professional practice expectations, identify local barriers and improvement opportunities, and promote leader readiness, APP engagement, and workforce development.
• Recruit, coach, develop, and evaluate APP leaders and staff and foster a work environment that promotes accountability, collaboration, professional growth, engagement, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with physician, nursing, quality, and operational leaders on APP-related quality, safety, patient experience, clinical process, and performance improvement initiatives affecting APP practice and team-based care.
• Use APP productivity, access, utilization, financial, and performance data to identify trends, inform staffing and operational decisions, evaluate return on investment, and improve APP role alignment and service delivery.
• Support responsible stewardship of APP-related resources, including staffing models, operational resource utilization, and budget planning input, and collaborate with local and enterprise leaders to address financial and operational needs.
• Promote consistent interpretation and application of APP professional practice expectations and collaborate with Advanced Practice leadership, Human Resources, Legal, Medical Staff Affairs, Credentialing/CVO, and other key stakeholders on professionalism, behavior, scope of practice, privileging, competency, and escalation matters, as appropriate.
• Serve as the local APP leadership representative in enterprise forums, committees, and cross-functional initiatives, communicate enterprise priorities and decisions to local APP leaders and stakeholders, and escalate local issues, opportunities, and structural needs to enterprise Advanced Practice leadership.
• Participate in committees, initiatives, and activities that advance patient care, APP practice, operations, education, and clinical integration across the flagship academic medical center.
• Maintain clinical practice within area of specialty; 30% clinical effort is encouraged.

Qualifications

• Current licensure as required by the state in which services will be provided: WV: Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) AND Current Registered Nurse license issued by the state in which services will be provided or current multi-state Registered Nurse license through the enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC) AND current approved APRN National certification OR Physician Assistant license issue by West Virginia Board of Medicine or West Virginia Board of Osteopathic Medicine.
• Seven (7) years of APP clinical practice experience or comparable advanced practice leadership experience.
• Three (3) years of progressive leadership or administrative experience in a hospital, academic medical center, or complex specialty environment.
• Experience working across multiple specialties, departments, service lines, or operational units in a highly matrixed environment.

Skills and Abilities

• Strong local operational leadership skills in a complex academic / hospital environment.
• Ability to work effectively in a matrixed environment with physician, nursing, operational, and administrative leaders.
• Strong communication, influence, consensus-building, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Ability to coach APP leaders, build alignment across distributed leadership structures, and support change management.
• Strong problem-solving, organizational, and performance-improvement capabilities.
• Ability to support APP workforce alignment, governance implementation, and local execution of enterprise priorities.
• Ability to maintain credible working relationships with physician leaders, department chairs, service-line leaders, nursing leaders, APP chiefs / leads, and enterprise advanced practice leadership.