Director of Critical Care ICU

Job Summary and Qualifications

The Director of Nursing is responsible for facilitating, coordinating, and delegating the delivery of patient care to a defined group of patients during their entire hospitalization period. She/he is responsible for the staffing and management of patient care in each of his/her units, promoting the practice of professional nursing, and acquiring, developing, and utilizing resources needed to fulfill these responsibilities.

Essential Job Functions

• Builds and maintains a high functioning team.
• Manages and provides guidance and direction to first line supervisors/charge personnel including interviewing, work allocation, orientation and training, staff development, problem resolution, evaluating performance, making recommendations for personnel actions, and motivation of employees to achieve peak performance.
• Is responsible for meeting unit productivity targets.
• Manages and plans for unit and clinical activities including supervising the treatment and care of the patients.
• Responsible for organizing, directing, teaching and evaluating total nursing care within area of responsibility, including ensuring adequate staffing.
• Participates in the planning, development and management of operational and equipment budgets annually.
• Provides financial variance analysis reports in a timely manner.
• Reviews monthly financial statistics and plans expenditures according to budget limitations.
• Manages the ongoing implementation of approved plans.
• Anticipates the purchase or replacement of equipment with input from staff and physicians.
• Implements the equipment purchase process.
• Anticipates and recommends needs for added space and needed services not provided by the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing
• Three years of recent RN acute care experience
• Employee completes initial and ongoing training and competencies as defined by service line, facility and department/unit which are specific to the needs of the patient population served (if applicable).
• PREFERRED: Master’s Degree in Nursing or related field
• One year management experience as a charge RN, clinical care manager/supervisor, or manager.

Benefits

Methodist Hospital Texsan offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing

Note

Eligibility for benefits may vary by location. Methodist Hospital Texsan is a 120 bed acute care hospital. We remain one of South Texas’s premier heart and orthopedic hospitals. We are certified in chest pain and heart failure with comprehensive cardiac services. Our orthopedic services, including the Joint Replacement Academy and the Center for Spine, hold some of the best clinical results in the industry. We achieve this by using state-of-the-art technology, such as our robotics program. Methodist Hospital Texsan is the first hospital in San Antonio to receive the Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval for Chest Pain Certification. We were awarded the Heart Care Center National Distinction of Excellence. This is the highest recognition a hospital can receive. Our ICU was awarded the Silver Beacon Award for Excellence. We are also recognized as a Level IV trauma center. Our 30 bed Inpatient Rehab Unit has received the Rehabilitation Stroke Certification from the Joint Commission. Methodist Hospital Texsan has been deemed one of Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to Work in Healthcare for 3 years in a row. We were a recipient of the 2019 Guardian of Excellence Award® by Press Ganey. Join our record setting team today!

If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our Director of Critical Care ICU opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing - apply today!

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.