Chief Nursing Officer, Monroe Clinic Hospital & St. Mary's Hospital - Janesville

SSM Health • Monroe, WI

21h • Onsite

About The Position

This position is responsible for both the Monroe Clinic Hospital and St. Mary’s Hospital in Janesville, WI. The Chief Nursing Officer develops short- and long-term patient services and nursing goals and plans, ensuring alignment with broader organizational priorities. This role utilizes metrics and organizational vision to lead and direct strategic nursing and patient care practice and standards, patient safety, clinical outcomes, and patient, employee, and physician satisfaction. The Chief Nursing Officer also develops and implements patient services and nursing practice standards and guidelines across the organization to ensure the safe provision of quality patient care.

Requirements

• Master's degree
• Eight years nursing experience, with four years' in leadership
• State of Work Location: Wisconsin Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State Or Registered Nurse (RN) - Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services

Responsibilities

• Serves as a member of the leadership team providing strategic direction on patient care and nursing related issues.
• Works effectively as a team member in a dynamic executive environment in a matrix organization, and promotes teamwork within and across the organization by maintaining positive relationships and utilizing effective problem solving skills.
• Oversees human resource management for the assigned area creating a culture of employee engagement.
• Ensures HR policies are administered consistently across function.
• Organizes department through appropriate structure and delegation of functions.
• Identifies succession planning needs within the team.
• Promotes team building and collaboration.
• Motivates, encourages and empowers staff to achieve personal, organizational and team goals.
• Recognizes accomplishment.
• Encourages and provides opportunity for staff input and feedback regarding improvement opportunities.
• Regularly displays and encourages ethical behavior in the areas of business ethics, legal compliance, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, vendor relationships and the reporting of questionable activities.
• Serves as a role model and mentor to nursing leaders.
• Identifies common opportunities for standardizing processes to achieve a consistent experience for all served.
• Develops strategies to ensure premier patient satisfaction.
• Leads development of nursing practice standards to facilitate effective utilization of the electronic health record.
• Establishes and implements key quality metrics to evaluate the quality of patient care.
• Participates in ongoing continuous quality improvement education and training.
• Evaluates patient services processes across the organization for quality, cost effectiveness, efficiency and regulatory compliance, and recommends measures to streamline operations and reduce duplication.
• Monitors nursing practice, clinical outcomes and process improvement initiatives to achieve value based outcome metrics.
• Assumes fiscal responsibility through budgetary planning and implementation.
• Develops and manages the operating and capital budgets for patient services operations, analyzes variances, develops plans and takes appropriate actions for productivity and performance improvements.
• Maintains knowledge and achieves compliance with federal, state and local regulatory requirements, licensure, accreditation requirements, record procedures and internal controls.
• Regularly informs and updates staff on organizational and industry issues.
• Works to continuously improve patient services while enhancing service to patients and optimizing relationships with business partners.
• Partners across the organization to support smooth transition of care for patients across care settings to ensure optimal setting of care to address patient needs.
• Recruits, engages, develops, leads, and manages assigned staff.
• Applies the existing body of evidence-based practice and scientific knowledge in health care to nursing practice, ensuring that nursing care is delivered based on patient’s age-specific needs and clinical needs as described in the department's scope of service.
• Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• One week of paid parental leave for newborns or newly adopted children (pro-rated based on FTE).
• Instant access to earned, unpaid base pay before payday through DailyPay (fees may apply).
• Upfront tuition coverage through FlexPath Funded for eligible team members.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees