Director, Nursing Operations, Monroe Carrell Jr. Children's Hospital

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Nashville, TN

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Vanderbilt Health – Executive Search Team is conducting a national search for a Director, Nursing Operations, Monroe Carrell Jr. Children's Hospital. This role reports to the Associate Nursing Officer and provides administrative oversight and leadership for staffing operations and patient throughput functions. The Director participates in the development and execution of operational and strategic functions and processes to achieve clinical, staffing, and patient flow goals. Key responsibilities include fiscal accountability, maintaining quality and regulatory standards, optimizing workforce utilization, and supporting a high level of patient/family centered care and service. The role involves leading efforts to proactively manage census fluctuations, maximize capacity, and remove barriers to efficient patient placement while enhancing patient and staff satisfaction. The Director also oversees program development, team management, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure integration across the clinical enterprise, and provides feedback, coaching, and mentoring to less experienced peers and other members of the health care team. Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt is a 343-bed hospital with extensive facilities and a large annual clinic visit volume, serving a population beyond the Nashville market through a growing ambulatory network. The hospital has a history of nursing excellence and holds its fourth consecutive Magnet designation.

Requirements

Nursing degree required.
Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) or Master of Science in Nursing (MSN), or Doctorate in Nursing.
If nursing degree at Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) level, then masters can be non-nursing degree.
5 + years experience.
Experience working in a highly complex, matrixed Academic Medical Center.
Relevant leadership experience.
People Management (Intermediate): Successfully resolves conflicts and disciplinary problems. Provides counseling and career development planning to subordinates. Constructively gives timely positive and negative feedback, confronting individual performance problems in a professional and sensitive manner. Aware of the values, abilities and needs of others. Demonstrates the ability to create a positive work climate, establishing a feeling of partnership and empowering others. Has set, coached and assessed the assignment objectives of subordinates. Practices and rewards behaviors supportive of company values.
Operations Planning (Intermediate): Demonstrates ability to forecast complex resource needs, identify discrete tasks, set priorities, define dependencies, schedule activities, meet deadlines, and organize work for a single functional area. Merges diverse points of view into a coalition with shared goals and objectives. Plans for and anticipates events outside of immediate responsibility. Identifies relevant stakeholders and gains their commitment. Anticipates problems and obstacles before they arise. Able to absorb changes to major assignments while maintaining a high level of performance. Competently handles multiple assignments and projects simultaneously. Sets priorities with a proper sense of urgency and importance. Develops creative ideas and takes innovative action to achieve planned goals and objectives.
Quality Management (Intermediate): Has provided continuous analysis and evaluation of assignment work processes, constantly striving for improvement in the way tasks and activities are accomplished by questioning their value to the process and contributing creative solutions. Has participated in the process of establishing, communicating and monitoring standards for quality and excellence. Demonstrates the ability to actually work on and improve a current business process, product or service.
Business Results (Intermediate): Develops and implements appropriate measures for attaining multiple business results and tracks progress in meeting goals and objectives. Builds an implementation network that includes key constituents such as peers, subordinates, top management and customers. Emphasizes both short and long-term business goals. Recognizes and capitalizes on business opportunities. Able to detect early warning signs indicating potential issues which may impact customer satisfaction, product quality, or profitability. Effectively contributes to organizational objectives.
Compliance (Intermediate): Demonstrates knowledge of the appropriate rules and regulations and apply them in difficult, stressful and complex situations. Able to interpret and explain rules and regulations that are ambiguous or unclear. Directs others in interpreting rules and regulations on the job and trains others in them.
Leadership (Intermediate): Motivates and inspires others to perform at a high level. Puts aside personal needs and considerations for the good of the team. Communicates in a positive and constructive way, demonstrating an enthusiasm for team and unit goals. Takes appropriate risks, showing and accepting personal accountability for actions and decisions. Gets others to share challenges and perform as a valuable member of the team and unit. Accomplishes results through influence, coaching, communication and commitment with minimal use of authority and control.
LIC-Registered Nurse - Licensure-Others
Relevant Work Experience
5 years experience
Master's degree

Nice To Haves

The ideal candidate will have experience working in a highly complex, matrixed Academic Medical Center, with relevant leadership experience.

Responsibilities

Facilitates optimal patient journey for seamless execution of plan of care as patients progress according to patterned pathways.
Develops goals and objectives for the department based on interpretation of institutional policy and goals.
Engages with Palliative Care services and the progression of skill of institutional multidisciplinary discussion of "goals of care" with patients.
Initiate changes in or develop new policies, procedures and/or methods.
Ensure the most effective operations of the department through program development, process improvement and coordination/integration of processes with other departments.
Engages bedside nurses in formal nursing research for relevant patient improvement opportunities.
Standardize services, processes, resources, and practice to improve efficiency.
Ensure standards are met within area of responsibility to assure clinical enterprise accreditation/licensure.
Provides administrative oversight and leadership for staffing operations and patient throughput functions.
Participates in the development and execution of operational and strategic functions and processes to achieve clinical, staffing, and patient flow goals.
Fiscal accountability, maintaining quality and regulatory standards, optimizing workforce utilization, and supporting a high level of patient/family centered care and service.
Leads efforts to proactively manage census fluctuations, maximize capacity, and remove barriers to efficient patient placement while enhancing patient and staff satisfaction.
Oversees program development, team management, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure integration across the clinical enterprise.
Provides feedback, coaching and mentoring to less experienced peers and other members of the health care team.