Director Advanced Practice Institute

WVU Medicine•Morgantown, WV

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Director Advanced Practice — Institute provides institute-level APP leadership and serves as the primary APP program resource for institute leadership. The role is responsible for aligning APP workforce strategy, recruitment and retention priorities, collaborative practice models, onboarding execution, competency, professional development, quality and performance expectations, and operational priorities across institute services. The Director partners with physician leaders, administrative leaders, local APP leaders, and enterprise advanced practice leadership to improve APP role clarity, APP utilization, workforce deployment, APP leader development, and local execution of enterprise advanced practice standards. This position is primarily administrative and leadership-focused and may include a limited clinical practice component, as operationally appropriate, to maintain connection to specialty APP practice and support clinical credibility.

Requirements

Current licensure in one of the following issued by the state in which services will be provided: Advanced Practice RN Licensure AND board certification OR Physician’s Assistant License AND board certification
Basic Life Support (BLS) certification
Advanced Life Support (ACLS)
Seven (7) years of APP clinical practice experience or comparable advanced practice leadership
Three (3) years of progressive APP leadership, management, or administrative experience in specialty practice, institute operations, or a complex clinical service line in an academic medical center and/or multihospital system

Nice To Haves

Doctoral degree or additional advanced degree such as DNP, DMSc, MBA, MHA, or PhD.
Experience partnering with physicians and operational leaders in a matrixed environment.
Experience with APP workforce planning, APP utilization, APP development, and quality / performance oversight.

Responsibilities

Provides institute-level APP leadership across institute services and serves as the central APP leadership point of coordination for the institute.
Works collaboratively with institute executive and medical leadership, physician leaders, operational leaders, the Assistant Vice President for Advanced Practice, and applicable APP oversight or governance structures to support institute operations, strategic planning, and APP program development.
Establishes and supports an APP governance structure for the institute and aligns APP leadership expectations, communication pathways, decision processes, and escalation pathways across institute programs and service areas.
Serves as the primary institute resource regarding APP utilization, collaborative practice models, workforce deployment, role design, growth planning, and care model development across institute services.
Partners with finance, Human Resources, recruitment, and operational leadership to support pro formas, FTE planning, job-description development, hiring decisions, recruitment and retention strategies, and other APP workforce-planning needs within institute services.
Coordinates existing APP leaders within the institute and supports alignment across specialty practice areas, service areas, or disease-focused programs as applicable.
Supports local implementation of APP onboarding, orientation, competency, professional development, and transition-to-practice expectations within institute services and identifies institute-specific barriers, gaps, and opportunities for improvement.
Promotes APP engagement, mentorship, communication, and leadership development within the institute and supports APP leaders in addressing volume growth, complexity, coverage, and organizational-design needs.
Partners with Medical Staff Affairs, Credentialing/CVO, enterprise advanced practice leadership, and physician leaders on APP credentialing, privileging, competency support, FPPE/OPPE processes, and institute-level interpretation of APP professional-practice expectations.
Collaborates with department chairs, medical staff leadership, Human Resources, Legal, and institute leadership on APP professionalism, conduct, and performance issues and escalates significant concerns through appropriate channels.
Provides leadership for APP-related quality, safety, patient experience, access, and performance priorities within the institute and partners with quality and operational leaders to identify and implement improvement opportunities.
Uses clinical, operational, and financial data, including productivity, ROI, access, staffing, quality, and utilization metrics, to inform APP workforce planning, performance oversight, APP value measurement, and operational decision-making within institute services.
Supports development and advancement of research efforts, learner support, academic partnerships, or specialty program initiatives that strengthen APP practice and workforce development within the institute, as appropriate.
Serves as the APP leadership representative for the institute in enterprise APP forums and cross-functional discussions, communicates enterprise APP priorities and decisions to institute APP leaders and stakeholders, and escalates institute APP issues, opportunities, and structural needs to enterprise advanced practice leadership.
Participates in committees and activities that enhance patient care, APP practice, operations, education, research, and clinical integration across the institute.
Maintains clinical practice within his/her specialty. 30% clinical effort is encouraged.
Performs other duties as assigned.