Director Perioperative Services

About the role

This role offers the opportunity to lead high-performing teams while advancing professional nursing practice and delivering exceptional perioperative care. The Director, Perioperative Services provides multidisciplinary leadership and administrative authority for perioperative patient care units and departments on a 24-hour basis.

Responsibilities

• Resource Utilization: Blends business competencies and skills with the core ideology of nursing, integrating the nursing process into business decisions.
• Optimizes fiscal resource allocation to support current and potential objectives and initiatives.
• Promotes the appropriate use of innovative applications and new technologies, including consideration of the impact on global environmental health and sustainability.
• Promotes activities that assist others, as appropriate, in becoming informed about costs, risks and benefits of plans and solutions.
• Leadership: Promotes and maintains a positive, professional image of nursing and clinical services.
• Recognizes managers and staff contributions consistently and facilitates educational and developmental opportunities for managers and staff.
• Provides leadership, direction, and mentoring to managers that encourages goals achievement and professional growth.
• Supports and fosters strong nursing morale on units by creating an environment which cultivates personal investment and excellence; nurtures commitment to a common vision and shared values; provides managers and staff with opportunities and latitude to grow and achieve; builds effective teams committed to organizational goals, promotes collaboration, and encourages, as well as, empowers others to achieve.
• Provides leadership in the professional practice setting by creating and maintaining a healthy work environment, engaging as a team builder and serving as a change agent.
• Accurately assesses the strengths and developmental needs of managers and provides timely, constructive feedback that contributes to others’ development.
• Collaboration: Collaborates with the Chief Nursing Officer in the development and implementation of policies and procedures that guide and support the provision of patient care services.
• Facilitates in development and management of the care delivery process for designated nursing units or departments ensuring that policies, procedures, standards of care, and standards of practice are consistent across the organization and with current nursing and clinical research and practice.
• Incorporates the nursing process of assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning, intervention, evaluation, and patient advocacy.
• Collaborates with all levels of staff, interdisciplinary teams, executive leaders and other stakeholders.
• Collaborates with appropriate medical staff/medical directors to establish service line goals which are consistent with the hospital’s mission and goals.
• Promotes patient needs identification and meeting; establishes effective working relationships with all key physicians; assists nursing management in establishing a collaborative practice model throughout nursing.
• Quality and Performance Improvement: Identifies and evaluates opportunities for performance improvement within the service line, and implements quality initiatives that measurably improve quality of care and performance.
• Collects and analyzes comprehensive data. Identifies expected outcomes. Develops, implements and evaluates a plan to attain expected outcomes.
• System Accountability: Responsible for certifying both systems and applications access within the SJHS environment every 90 days for all direct reports.

  Qualifications

  • Master’s Degree in Nursing, or Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing and Master’s Degree in relevant field of management, policy, or administration.
  • Experience: 10 or more years of nursing experience, with 3 years in nursing administration.

  Skills

  • Strong leadership and management skills.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt to changing circumstances.
  • Knowledge of perioperative nursing practices and standards.
  • Proficiency in financial management and resource utilization.
  • Ability to analyze data and implement quality improvement initiatives.
  • Effective problem-solving and decision-making skills.

  Benefits

  The full pay range is listed in accordance with applicable law. Final compensation will be determined based on qualifications, experience, organizational compensation alignment, and the approved hiring department budget for the position. This position may also be eligible for incentive compensation and benefits.

  Pay

  Final compensation will be determined based on qualifications, experience, organizational compensation alignment, and the approved hiring department budget for the position.

  Schedule

  Full time.

  Application Instructions

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