Senior Director of Magnet Accreditation & Professional Practice - Orlando Health

The Senior Director of Magnet Accreditation and Professional Practice works in partnership with the executive nursing leadership and patient care services team to advance enterprise-wide professional governance, and to continue and maintain the Journey to Magnet Excellence.

About Orlando Health

Founded more than 100 years ago, Orlando Health is a private, not-for-profit healthcare organization with a long tradition of serving its many and varied communities. With physicians in more than 100 specialties, the healthcare system attracts patients from across the state, region and nation.

The healthcare system encompasses award-winning hospitals, stand-alone emergency departments, behavioral health care, skilled nursing facilities, rehabilitation services and urgent care locations. Our network of primary care physicians and specialists extends from the Atlantic to Gulf coasts and spans more than a dozen counties.

Orlando Health is nationally recognized for its pediatric and adult trauma programs as well as its high-performing community hospitals and specialty hospitals. Each year, we welcome more than 20,000 babies across the system and care for the most fragile in one of the nation’s largest neonatal intensive care units.

The most-advanced care is offered through our specialty institutes that connect clinical excellence, education and research programs in our core services. With a robust graduate medical education program that hosts more than 350 residents and fellows each academic year, Orlando Health continues its pioneering research that includes therapies for end-stage breast cancer, identifying biomarkers to detect traumatic brain injury and offering first-in-the-world expanded access for an experimental advanced melanoma treatment.

• Aligns patient care services initiatives to Orlando Health overarching strategy.
• Utilizes change models and or theories to facilitate and integrate nursing and allied health strategic priorities throughout Orlando Health.
• Communicates through well written papers, reports, articles, presentations, and other communication venues, to inform the work of the department, the organization, and patient care services at large.
• Fosters an environment of accountability and exemplary performance based on identified strategic goals.
• Leads the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of system-wide projects
  • Identifies key drivers of success for nursing and allied health strategies.
• Supports and leads professional governance activities for the enterprise.
• Develops quantifiable models to support patient care services strategy implementation.
• Collaborates with executive nursing and patient care services leaders to update and reshape initiatives through review of nursing and patient care trends and data.
• Conducts ongoing evaluation/reviews of nursing and allied health strategies and execution milestones.
• Builds strong partnerships with clinical nurses, nursing leaders, allied health team members, allied health leaders, physicians, and other leaders to drive engagement of patient care services initiatives.
• Incorporates nursing administration scope and standards of practice into current practice.
• Utilizes a system-wide mechanism for sharing best practices based on evidence.
• Collaborates with executive nursing and patient care services leaders at the system-level to develop key success metrics for nursing and allied health strategies.
• Advocates for and participates in professional governance for the discipline of nursing and allied health.
• Synthesizes and integrates divergent market viewpoints, understands the trends of nursing, allied health, and healthcare to anticipate the impact and opportunities for nursing.
• Monitors and evaluates developments significant to health care policy, nursing practice, allied health, and quality.
• Responsible for all facets of the system-wide Magnet Recognition Program®
• Serves as a Magnet advisor and coach to all Leadership, Nursing, and Allied Health teams and is the liaison to the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Magnet Program Office.
• Develops and implements system-wide strategies and infrastructure to support clinical quality, operational effectiveness, and shared leadership.
• Identifies opportunities for recognition of Orlando Health nurses and allied health tam members through internal and external awards.
• Works in partnership with the Florida Center for Nursing, Florida Nurses Association, Florida Organization of Nurse Executives, Florida Hospital Association and Allied Health organizations and other governing bodies and or associations on issues related to the practice of nursing or patient care at Orlando Health.
• Adheres to Orlando Health policies, procedures, value statements and commitment to Standards of Behaviors.

Education

• A Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree is required.
• A Master's degree is required.
  • Degree can be either a Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) or a Master of Business Administration (MBA). 
• A Doctorate degree in Nursing (or relevant degree) is preferred.

Licensure/Certification

• Current license in the State of Florida as a registered nurse (or multi-state Florida Compact license) is required.
• A National Specialty Certification in Nursing Administration is required.
  • NE-BC
  • NEA-BC
  • CENP

Experience

• At least ten (10) years of nursing leadership experience is required.