System Director of Perioperative Services

About the role

The Director of Perioperative Services provides strategic, operational, and clinical leadership for assigned perioperative departments, ensuring alignment with the DCH Health System Mission, Vision, Values, and organizational goals. The Director is responsible for ensuring that assigned departments have the personnel, resources, systems, and processes necessary to deliver exceptional care while serving as a responsible steward of organizational resources.

Responsibilities

• Provides strategic leadership for Perioperative Services, including Surgical Services, Pre-Admission Testing, Pre-Op, PACU, Sterile Processing, Endoscopy, and other procedural areas as assigned.
• Develops and implements departmental strategic plans, goals, and priorities aligned with organizational objectives and patient care initiatives.
• Collaborates with the CNO, executive leadership, physicians, and department leaders to establish direction, performance expectations, and measurable outcomes.
• Safeguards safe, efficient, high-quality perioperative care across the continuum of surgical and procedural services.
• Ledges efforts to optimize operating room performance, including block utilization, first-case on-time starts, turnover times, case throughput, scheduling efficiency, and overall OR utilization.
• Maintains continuous compliance with all applicable accrediting, regulatory, and professional standards, including CMS, Joint Commission, AORN, OSHA, and state requirements.
• Serves as a change leader, facilitating implementation of new technology, equipment, workflows, and organizational initiatives.
• Ensures effective communication and collaboration among staff, physicians, anesthesia providers, patients, and families, fostering a culture of service excellence and teamwork.
• Advances patient-centered care, care coordination, and surgical optimization initiatives that improve quality outcomes, patient experience, length of stay, throughput, and readmission performance across the surgical continuum.

Requirements

• Registered Nurse with current Alabama/Compact License.
• BSN Required. Master's degree in Health-Related Field or must complete Health Related Master’s level program within 2 -4 years.
• Minimum 4 years progressive experience in a leadership role in a hospital setting.
• Highly developed interpersonal skills to work with a variety of people including employees, physicians, board members, local, state and federal officials and hospital administrators.
• Financial knowledge relevant to health care and financial analysis including the budget process.
• Skills in compliance, planning, organizing, and managing multiple projects/tasks.
• Excellent interpersonal communication in both written and oral skills.
• Demonstrates analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills.
• American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS) required; ACLS preferred.

Qualifications

• Physical Ability to tolerate prolonged periods of standing and walking. Ability to reach reasonable distance in any direction.
• Physical presence onsite is essential.
• Hearing and vision must be normal or corrected to within normal range.
• Able to perform the duties with or without reasonable accommodation.

Skills

• Leadership
• Strategic Planning
• Collaboration
• Quality Improvement
• Regulatory Compliance
• Change Management
• Communication
• Financial Analysis
• Interpersonal Skills
• Problem Solving
• Decision Making
• Basic Life Support (BLS)
• American Heart Association (AHA) ACLS

Benefits

Not specified

Pay

TBD

Schedule

TBD