Associate Director for Patient Care Services (Nurse Executive)
About The Position
The Associate Director for Patient Care Services (Nurse Executive) provides direct oversight of Nursing, Social Work, Chaplain, Pharmacy, Sterile Processing, and Whole Health Services. The incumbent will serve as Nurse Executive for this facility and its associated community-based outpatient clinics and is responsible for the practice of nursing by all registered nurses, advanced practical nurses, and allied health staff (LPNs, NAs, etc) regardless of line of authority. The VA Long Beach Healthcare System (VALBHS) is classified as a 1b facility and provides care to approximately 70,000 Veterans in the Southern California area including six Community Based Outpatient Clinics in Orange County and Los Angeles County. VALBHS offers a full spectrum of comprehensive health services integrating teaching, research, and advanced patient care. VALBHS is affiliated with University of California, Irvine and also works with several other academic institutions including University California, Long Beach, University of Southern California (USC), and Charles Drew University. VA Long Beach Healthcare System uses LEAN methodology to continuously improve patient safety, experience, and quality of care.
Requirements
- Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory
Responsibilities
- Collaborates with health care executives in creating the organizational mission and vision.
- Directs the integration of nursing or nursing-related activities in the mutual development and achievement of organizational goals.
- Advocates for ethical decision-making on behalf of the public and staff.
- Develops resources utilization strategies to improve organizational performance.
- Mentors others in executive leadership positions.
- Forecasts educational needs for complex, multi-system change.
- Develops policy related to professional practice, accrediting bodies, relevant statutes and regulations of community, network and/or national levels.
- Collaborates with other executives for strategic planning, decision-making and problem-solving regarding health care services and organizational priorities.
- Serves as an expert in communicating nursing and health care trends and issues at the local, state, network, and/or national level.
- Improves the quality and effectiveness of the facility's overall health care program by providing leadership, coordinating, and facilitating the evaluation and improvement of a wide range of programs designed to improve patient care.
Benefits
- Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards
- Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)
- Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
- Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
- Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: May be authorized for highly qualified candidate.
- Permanent Change of Station (PCS): May be authorized for highly qualified candidate.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
Industry
Administration of Human Resource Programs
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
