VP Patient Care Services

About the role

As our VP, Patient Care Services, you will define and execute the strategic vision for patient care system-wide, ensuring exceptional, high-quality, and compassionate care delivery. This executive role drives operational excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement. Every day you will strategically direct patient care units and services, fostering clinical excellence. Responsibilities include mentoring senior leaders, setting system-level patient safety and compliance, and optimizing workflows for superior outcomes. You'll represent patient care at the executive level, driving key initiatives. To succeed, you need exceptional executive leadership, visionary strategic management, and profound clinical expertise. You must influence a culture of excellence, drive transformative improvement, and deliver organizational patient care goals, with a proven history of leading complex clinical teams and shaping change effectively.

Responsibilities

• Participate in hospital's decision-making processes by collaborating with leaders from the governing body, health system management, hospital leadership council, medical staff and clinical areas in developing strategic plans, budgets, resource allocation, operational plans and policies
• Lead nursing leadership in the development of a nursing mission, vision, philosophy, strategic plan congruent with the hospital's mission, vision, and strategic plan
• Mentor and develop managers and staff to assume leadership roles both formally and informally, via role modeling and facilitating staff participation in a shared leadership structure
• Direct patient care team effectively as team leader and change agent
• Develop and implement effective communication channels to provide information to all staff members; provide the forum for staff to verbalize concerns, issues and ideas in a non-threatening environment
• Develop and continually enhance a positive working relationship and the ability to problem solve with other members of the patient care delivery team including physicians and other departments

Requirements

• Master’s degree or higher
• Minimum of ten (10) years experience in progressive management roles, or the equivalent, with a sound knowledge of clinical nursing, management, and quality enhancement, upon hire
• Registered Nurse licensed in Texas, upon hire

Where You'll Work

St. Luke’s Health–Brazosport Hospital is located on a beautiful, 25-acre campus in Lake Jackson, Texas. Offering state-of-the-art diagnostic and comprehensive treatment services, our hospital is home to a 154-bed patient tower, level III trauma center, advanced cardiac care center, and full-service, multidisciplinary cancer center. Our team consists of over 100 board-certified physicians and nearly 600 highly skilled employees to meet our patients’ medical needs. South Brazoria County’s premier healthcare system, St. Luke’s Health–Brazosport Hospital is dedicated to providing quality care with compassion for the communities we serve.

Pay

$69.41 – $97.18 per hour