Director-Clinical Development

Job Summary

Provides strategic leadership and administration in the areas of patient care, education, safety and quality in accordance with hospital policies and in accordance with standards of professional nursing practice utilizing the framework for professional nursing practice and development.

Promotes a professional practice environment and develops and maintains collegial and collaborative partnerships with key stakeholders across the institution to positively impact the business of clinical operations, nursing, and patient care outcomes. These partnerships include ongoing collaboration with physician, faculty, and organizational leaders.

Responsibilities

• Provides strategic direction to ensure alignment of goals and initiatives.
• Led initiatives to ensure patient engagement, financial stewardship, and high quality safe care.
• Acts as a clinical consultant to appropriate committees and other disciplines.
• Directs and enhances growth and development of professional competency through professional development programs.
• Employs critical thinking, problem-solving techniques, new knowledge, creativity, innovation, and collaboration skills to design systems that improve care delivery and outcomes.
• Fosters open communication horizontally and vertically.
• Demonstrates commitment to learning and building relationships.
• Collaborates with other healthcare disciplines and physicians regarding nursing practice initiatives, physicians practice initiatives, and patient care delivery.
• Serves as an agent of change, assisting multidisciplinary team in understanding the importance, necessity, impact and process of change.
• Provides strategic direction to deliver safe quality care reflective of standards, policies/procedures/guidelines, regulatory compliance and quality measures.
• Ensures development and implementation of effective ongoing programs to measure, assess, and improve the quality of care and services delivered both internally and externally.
• Exhibits fiscal responsibility and integrity in policy and process development.
• Participates in interdisciplinary teams that address ethical risks, benefits, and outcomes.

Specifications

• Experience: Minimum Required: Three plus years of progressive experience in healthcare. Extensive knowledge of scope and practice, regulatory requirements, nurse practice acts, evidence-based practices, and leadership principles.
• Education: Minimum Required: Bachelor’s in Nursing and RN Licensure Required.
• Licensure: Minimum Required: RN Licensure.