Clinical Director - Surgery

Summary:

Manages the nursing services and staff for a department; ensures quality and full compliance with relevant policies and standards.

Responsibilities:

* Implementing and monitoring programs and practices for the delivery of safe and efficient quality nursing care for patients and their families
* Ensuring consistent application of nursing services policies and standards throughout the organization
* Monitoring patient outcomes and quality and effectiveness of nursing care
* Overseeing performance of teams; identifying and addressing staff training and development needs
* Apprising medical staff, department heads, and administrators in matters related to nursing service and strategies

Standard I: Financial Management

* Recognizes the impact of reimbursement on revenue
* Understands the relationship between values-based purchasing and quality outcomes with revenue and reimbursement
* Creates, monitors, and analyzes a budget; explaining variance
* Conducts ongoing evaluation of productivity, forecasting future revenue and expenses
* Documents capital appropriations and project authorizations

Standard II. Human Resources Management

* Evaluates and specifies the critical resources required to accomplish the team's objectives
* Initiates requests for required resources based on staff competency with patient acuity
* Allocates team resources responsibly and equitably within the scope of labor laws
* Calculates resource usage to set a baseline for comparison
* Discovers opportunities to improve resource utilization
* Implements changes in role consistent with scope of practice
* Anticipates and plans for admission/discharge/transfer needs to facilitate patient flow
* Resolves conflicts in a wide variety of situations, such as workload allocation, schedule overlap etc.
* Adjusts management and personal style to fit the needs of different people and different situations
* Explores motivational factors and tailors motivational efforts to individual needs and situations for the department
* Conducts evaluations on personnel performance at the work place and recommends improvement plans
* Coaches others on operating personnel management systems and their processes

Standard III. Relationship Management and Influencing Behaviors

* Situation Management
* Identifies issues that require immediate attention
* Applies principles of crisis management to handle situations as necessary
* Manages conflict
* Promotes team dynamics
* Mentors and coaches staff
* Promotes Professional Management
* Promotes and encourages stress management
* Encourages participation in professional action
* principles of self-awareness
* Fosters a healthy work environment
* Diversity
* Understands the components of cultural competence as they apply to the
workforce
* Maintains an environment of fairness and processes to support it
* Capitalizes on differences to foster highly effective work groups

Standard VI. Performance Improvement/Safe Practice/Quality Care/Regulations

* Assesses customer and patient satisfaction while developing and implementing strategies to address satisfaction issues
* Provides direct service to internal or external customers
* Facilitates the resolution of customer problems, issues, or concerns
* Monitors and promotes workplace safety requirements resulting in positive patient outcomes
* Applies systems thinking knowledge as an approach to analysis and decision-making
* Demonstrates accountability for nursing research and quality improvement activities
* Provides evidence-based nursing care
* Promotes and communicates patient information effectively across the continuum of care

Standard V. Leadership

* Serves as a leader of patient care
* Utilizes an appropriate style of leadership: autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire/free rein, etc.
* Demonstrates leadership qualities: intelligence, influence, determination, integrity, confidence
* Manages own behaviors during interactions, such as feedback giving, to shape workplace events
* Utilizes positive reinforcement to motivate and attain desired behaviors; increases productivity
* Employs leadership theories, such as contingency and transformational, and associated techniques
* Applies techniques of "action learning" to problem solve and personally reflect on
decisions

Clinical Performance Improvement

* Shares experiences with process performance improvements across multiple areas
* Recognizes recurring and difficult problems and explores new or innovative solutions
* Leverages technology to facilitate the sharing of clinical performance or outcomes data
* Compares and contrasts different approaches for performance improvement; highlights pros and cons
* Creates mechanism for ensuring quality and performance measures are understood and valued by nursing staff
* Consults on and coaches on developing business cases to justify improvement initiatives

Clinical Policies and Standards

* Monitors different types of clinical practice to ensure compliance with standards
* Evaluates existing and evolving standards and procedures and their impact on the organization
* Informs others on advanced clinical standards and policies across medical specialties
* Collaborates with other functions in establishing and documenting joint standards
* Participates in the development of clinical policies and practices
* Develops control and monitoring mechanisms for clinical policies adherence

Healthcare Policy and Ethics Compliance

* Shares experiences with addressing diverse problems in healthcare policy compliance
* Demonstrates best practices for dealing with complex compliance or non-compliance situations
* Guides others in making correct decisions when faced with ethical dilemmas
* Designs or revises organizational practices and procedures to ensure compliance with policies
* Supports and coaches on mechanisms that encourage attention to compliance issues; all clinical activities
* Participates in translating policy changes into operational programs and services

Healthcare Regulatory Environment

* Implements programs as needed to comply with diverse healthcare laws or regulations
* Monitors regulatory compliance of all healthcare practices to ensure no violations
* Evaluates key aspects of pending healthcare regulations and legislation that may impact company
* Provides recommendations and implements solutions to existing and potential legal problems
* Shares main considerations and issues related to laws and regulations in the implementation of healthcare practices

Job Requirements:

Work Schedule:

8AM - 5PM Monday-Friday

Work Type:

Full Time