Director of Periop & Sterile Processing

UC Health•Cincinnati, OH

About The Position

The Director of Perioperative and Sterile Processing Services provides strategic, operational, and clinical leadership for all perioperative and sterile processing functions to ensure safe, efficient, and high-quality surgical services. This role is responsible for aligning perioperative operations with organizational goals, regulatory requirements, and best practices while driving operational excellence, patient safety, financial stewardship, and staff engagement. The Director partners with surgeons, anesthesia, nursing leadership, infection prevention, and supply chain to optimize surgical throughput, instrument readiness, and outcomes across the continuum of perioperative care.

Requirements

Master's Degree
Ohio RN License
3-5 years equivalent experience
Position requires demonstrated knowledge and ability to effectively administrate the Perioperative Services Care Team.
Demonstrated ability to apply current perioperative nursing/patient care practice models, leadership/management skills and performance improvement concepts that achieve organizational goals for improving the delivery of perioperative services.
Demonstrated ability to apply current sterile processing techniques to achieve organizational goals for achieving best practices and improving operational efficiencies within the sterile processing department.
Demonstrated ability to operate within financial guidelines, implement organizational strategies, effectively administrate regulatory guidelines and standards into current perioperative and sterile processing practices.

Nice To Haves

Certified in area of specialty
6-10 years equivalent experience

Responsibilities

Communication and Relationship Building Effective communication – proficient in communication and technology to address nursing, healthcare and organizational issues appropriate to diverse audiences.
Establishes structures and processes to ensure effective information sharing among patients, families, and the healthcare team.
Demonstrates follow-through on commitments and concerns.
Demonstrates care about people as individuals with empathy and concern while ensuring that organizational ethics, goals, and objectives are met.
Builds credibility with physicians as a champion for patient care, quality, and nursing professionalism.
Fosters relationships with nursing academia to provide clinical experiences and resources for students.
Participates and represents administration in community boards, agencies, or projects that complement hospital mission and goals.
Responsible for planning and implementing strategies that improve the quality of health care delivery to the community
Understands healthcare ﬁnances as evidenced by preparing and analyzing unit budgets.
Correlates the relationship between e ﬀ ective sta ﬃ ng, patient care and budgeting.
Identiﬁes educational needs of existing and potential sta ﬀ .
Establish the perioperative and sterile processing strategic plan and annual operational goals that support the organization’s strategic plan.
Utilizes and interprets evidence-based data for the establishment of standards, practices, and patient care models for delivery of care.
Participates in systems review to improve quality of patient care delivery and to critically evaluate and anticipate risks to patient safety with the aim of preventing patient care errors.
Identiﬁes and participates in performance improvement processes that provide outcome measurement.
Communicates, educates and involves sta ﬀ in quality improvement processes.
Actively participates in patient satisfaction strategies and service recovery.
Ensures that clinical policies and procedures are reviewed and updated in accordance with evidence-based practice.
Articulates and takes action to support the TJC National Patient Safety Goals.
Demonstrates knowledge of internal and external disaster plans and ﬁre drills.
Incorporates safety into clinical processes, policies, and procedures.
Supports a non-punitive environment for reporting errors.
Administrative authority, responsibility and accountability to accomplish all assigned and related duties necessary to ensure conformity to institutional, regulatory, professional and accrediting agency standards governing patient care practices and delivery of patient care. (such as JCAHO, Ohio Department of Health, CMS and the Ohio State Board of Nursing
Maintains current knowledge of patient care delivery systems and innovations.
Serves as a change agent when patient care and processes are re-designed.
Articulates federal and state regulations.
Develop and implement budget and control activities for perioperative and sterile processing divisions and other areas of responsibility.
Determines perioperative patient care needs and manpower patterns to deliver cost-effective quality patient care
Actively recruits and initiates strategies for sta ﬀ retention.
Utilizes corrective action appropriately to mitigate work behavior issues.
Coaches sta ﬀ in development of career plans.
Provides visionary thinking and provides input in the sta ﬃ ng issues impacting the patient ﬂow.
Delegates tasks appropriately to health care personnel.
Creates an environment that recognizes and values di ﬀ erences in sta ﬀ , physicians, patients, and communities.
Ensures decision-making authority of sta ﬀ is acknowledged and incorporated into patient care delivery.
Exhibits personal and professional accountability and career planning.
Supports and encourages sta ﬀ to be involved in professional organizations, projects, Clinical Advancement Program, to obtain certiﬁcation and advanced education.
Articulates in the application of ethical principles for patient care and operations.
Create and promote a healthy work environment that is conducive to opinion sharing and decreases moral distress.
Role model the perspective that patient care is the core of the organization's work.