Director, Nursing - Acute Care at Providence

Description

Under general direction of the Chief Nursing Officer and in collaboration with the Medical Director, the Director works with the nursing leadership team to plan, organize, staff, direct, coordinate and control the activities within the acute care and medical surgical nursing units. The Director provides leadership direction to St. Joseph Hospital (SJH) staff to meet the balanced commitments and core values of the sister of St. Joseph Hospital.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Facilities the development and management of the nursing care delivery process for designated nursing units ensuring that policies, procedures, standards of care and standards of practiced are consistent across the nursing organization and with current nursing research and practice.
• Promotes and maintains a positive, professional image of nursing. Recognizes staff contributions consistently and facilitates educational and developmental opportunities for all patient care. Provides leadership, direction and mentoring to patient care staff that encourages goals achievement and professional growth.
• Supports and fosters strong nursing morale on unit by creating an environment that fosters personal investment and excellence; nurtures commitment to a common vision and shared values provides management team and staff with opportunities and latitude to grow and achieve; build effective teams committed to organizational goals, fosters collaboration, and encourages as well as empowers other to achieve. Accurately assesses the strengths and developmental needs of patient care staff and provides timely, constructive feedback that contributes to others' development.
• Applies broad knowledge and seasoned experience when addressing complex issues; defines strategic issues clearly despite ambiguity; takes all critical information into account when making decisions; making timely, tough decisions in the contact of the mission, vision, and values of St. Joseph Hospital.
• Promotes a free flow of information and communication throughout the organization (upward, downward, and across); listens actively; encourages open expression of ideas and opinions. Communicates needs, issues and concerns appropriately, utilizing the chain-of-commend. Delivers clear, convincing, and well-organized presentations; projects credibility and pose even in highly visible, adversarial situations.
• Orchestrates the pace and process of change to maintain operation effectiveness; assigns clear accountability backed by appropriate authority utilizing an objective and systematic approach. Identifies opportunities for process/practice improvement and facilitates implementation of required changes. Ensures processes and programs are in place to continually promote, measure, and improve employee, physician, and patient satisfaction.
• Develops and implements long-range staffing plans; ensures that programs are maintained to encourage the recruitment and retention of quality patient care staff.
• Partners with physicians to ensure patient needs are identified and met; establishes effective working relationships with all key physicians; assists nursing management in establishing a collaborative practice model throughout nursing.
• Networks and collaborates across the health care industry in order to continually strive towards best practices. Thinks broadly when seeking new ways to improve performance, processes, and service; creates an environment of continuous improvement; tries new approached and takes appropriate risks; seeks out and utilizes best practices.
• Ensures excellence inpatient care delivery consistent with JCAHO, Title 22, and other related regularly agencies through annual performance appraisal. Competency based practice standards and annual skill validation and proficiency of the clinical staff.
• Develops, monitors, and analyzers labor, operation, and capital expense budgets in assigns areas and assures appropriateness of human and material resources allocation.
• Patient care as needed (cross reference to RNII Age Specific Criteria).

QUALIFICATIONS

• Master's Degree in Nursing; or related healthcare field (preferred)
• Upon hire: California Registered Nurse License (Vendor Managed)
• 5 years of progressive managerial experience in healthcare
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to bring diverse groups of people together as a team to achieve quality care
• Strong skills in daily operations and budgetary management.

About Providence

At Providence, our strength lies in Our Promise of “Know me, care for me, ease my way.” Working at our family of organizations means that regardless of your role, we’ll walk alongside you in your career, supporting you so you can support others. We provide best-in-class benefits and we foster an inclusive workplace where diversity is valued, and everyone is essential, heard and respected. Together, our 120,000 caregivers (all employees) serve in over 50 hospitals, over 1,000 clinics and a full range of health and social services across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. As a comprehensive health care organization, we are serving more people, advancing best practices and continuing our more than 100-year tradition of serving the poor and vulnerable.

The amounts listed are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.

Providence offers a comprehensive benefits package including a retirement 401(k) Savings Plan with employer matching, health care benefits (medical, dental, vision), life insurance, disability insurance, time off benefits (paid parental leave, vacations, holidays, health issues), voluntary benefits, well-being resources and much more. Learn more at providence.jobs/benefits.

About the Team

The Sisters of Providence and Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange have deep roots in California, bringing health care and education to communities from the redwood forests to the beach shores of Orange county - and everywhere in between. In Southern California, Providence provides care throughout Los Angeles County, Orange County, High Desert and beyond.

Our award-winning and comprehensive medical centers are known for outstanding programs in cancer, cardiology, neurosciences, orthopedics, women's services, emergency and trauma care, pediatrics and neonatal intensive care. Our not-for-profit network provides a full spectrum of care with leading-edge diagnostics and treatment, outpatient health centers, physician groups and clinics, numerous outreach programs, and hospice and home care, and even our own Providence High School.

Providence is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to the principle that every workforce member has the right to work in surroundings that are free from all forms of unlawful discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, color, gender, disability, veteran, military status, religion, age, creed, national origin, sexual identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by local, state, or federal law. We believe diversity makes us stronger, so we are dedicated to shaping an inclusive workforce, learning from each other, and creating equal opportunities for advancement.

Requsition ID: 324410

Company: Providence Jobs

Job Category: Nursing-Patient Facing

Job Function: Nursing

Job Schedule: Full time

Job Shift: Day

Career Track: Leadership

Department: 7540 SJO NURSING ADMIN

Address: CA Orange 1100 W Stewart Dr

Work Location: St Joseph Hospital-Orange

Workplace Type: On-site

Pay Range: $86.12 - $138.62

The amounts listed are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.