Offres d'emploi

Description

Calling All Esteemed Leaders! Are you a seasoned leader with the ability to guide complex perioperative services in a community hospital? Do you bring strong clinical, operational, and strategic leadership-balancing quality, physician partnership, staff engagement, and fiscal stewardship in a demanding healthcare environment? This senior leadership opportunity invites your expertise.

The Role

The Director, Perioperative Services oversees and ensures the efficient and effective delivery of surgical services, directing clinical and administrative functions in accordance with Providence Health System and hospital policies. This role ensures an appropriate balance of high-quality patient care, staff and physician satisfaction, and coordination with other hospital departments.

The Director collaborates closely with executive leadership to develop divisional strategic direction, objectives, and vision.

Scope of accountability includes:

• Operating Room
• Pre-operative and post-operative continuum
• Sterile Processing Department

What You'll Do

Caring & Service Leadership

• Create a climate of healing and trust, establishing respectful, empowering relationships across perioperative services.
• Establish work teams that promote collaboration and positive interpersonal relationships across departments and service areas.
• Support problem-solving related to administrative, hospital, and surgical services policies to facilitate quality patient care.
• Recognize accomplishments of individual staff members and teams.
• Develop services based on assessed patient, staff, and operational needs.
• Role-model caring behaviors and coach others in service excellence.
• Meet routinely with nurses, physicians, clinical educators, managers, and ancillary leaders to assess needs related to patient care delivery.

Advocacy for Nursing Practice & Quality

• Support and promote professional nursing practice and quality patient outcomes.
• Advocate for excellence in patient care and surgical nursing practice.
• Advocate for care delivery process improvements aligned with patient needs and the Sisters of Providence mission.
• Promote ethical decision-making and patient rights through appropriate consultative resources.
• Encourage professional development opportunities for staff and leaders.
• Promote collegial communication and collaboration across surgical services and other departments.
• Foster a culture where service to patients is the highest priority.

Diagnosis, Monitoring & Strategic Operations

• Anticipate and identify necessary interventions based on assessment of patient outcomes, staff performance, and organizational needs.
• Plan, direct, and coordinate administrative responsibilities to ensure efficient systems supporting patient care, quality improvement, and work redesign.
• Maintain ongoing collaboration with the Chief of Anesthesia and Chief of Surgery to achieve departmental goals and address operational and quality issues.
• Develop and participate in policies and procedures that meet regulatory and professional standards, ensuring continuity across surgical services.
• Manage utilization of resources, including development and oversight of capital and operating budgets.
• Facilitate and manage organizational change effectively.

Administration & Performance Management

• Direct programs and processes that drive quality patient outcomes and advance Providence Health System goals.
• Lead or contribute to development and implementation of new programs responding to patient and medical staff needs.
• Keep Service Area leadership informed regarding operations, policy compliance, budget performance, volume trends, and emerging issues.
• Establish annual goals, long-range strategic plans, and operating plans.
• Involve staff in decision-making through effective communication strategies.
• Collaborate with Oregon Region and System-level perioperative councils to identify and evaluate supply chain opportunities.

Teaching, Coaching & Leadership Development

• Coach and mentor staff throughout onboarding and professional development.
• Ensure implementation of high-quality orientation, continuing education, and skills-training programs.
• Mentor leadership teams in project management, data analysis, information technology, and clinical, managerial, and financial practice.
• Serve as a clinical and operational resource across departments and service areas.

Quality, Innovation & Accountability

• Monitor and ensure quality of care practices, programs, and patient outcomes across surgical services.
• Lead quality improvement activities and outcome-driven initiatives.
• Establish and communicate standards, policies, and procedures aligned with regulatory requirements and mission.
• Apply quality improvement and redesign principles to improve efficiency and service outcomes.
• Identify innovative practice opportunities in collaboration with clinical nurse specialists.
• Maintain accountability for patient, staff, and physician satisfaction.

Organizational & Professional Development

• Effectively prioritize competing demands while demonstrating ongoing professional growth.
• Represent Surgical Services on internal and external committees and task forces.
• Maintain current knowledge of clinical trends and apply insights to surgical nursing practice.
• Collaborate with clinical development specialists to ensure effective orientation and continuing education programs.

What You'll Bring

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing or other healthcare related field
• Master's Degree in Nursing, Business, or related healthcare field

Experience & Expertise

• Five (5) years of Surgical /Perioperative Services management or comparable leadership experience
• Demonstrated experience in strategic planning, program development, team leadership, staffing, operations, and budget management
• Deep surgical expertise
• Union/labor experience

Certifications (Preferred)

• Specialty certification in Surgical Services
• Membership in AORN

Leadership Capabilities

• Strong relationship-building and collaborative leadership skills
• Sound judgment and effective problem-solving abilities
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills
• Ability to adapt and lead in dynamic, changing environments
• Proven ability to delegate, coordinate, motivate, and evaluate staff
• Strong facilitation skills within multidisciplinary teams