Director, Surgery

Sutter Health•Burlingame, CA

8d•$168,958 - $270,338•Onsite

About The Position

Provides overall leadership, direction, and management of the operating rooms, post-anesthesia care unit, surgical pre-op area and sterile processing. The Director contributes to the goals of the organization by generating new surgical business for the demographic region; developing and controlling operational and capital budgets; solving potential and real problems which impede safe patient care; developing the personnel, physical environment, and organizational systems needed to provide competitive and cost-effective operating-room services; designing competitive fee structures for services and supplies; and controlling inventory of equipment and supplies.

Requirements

BS Degree in Business Management, Administration or related field required.
12 years recent relevant experience.
Ability to develop and create an atmosphere of collaboration with members of the Medical Staff.
Function as a change agent with working knowledge of Adult Learning Theories and Change Management.
Demonstrate creativity and a bias for action.
Extensive working knowledge of the major functions of Ambulatory Surgical Services, including, but not limited to, the following: New business development, Budget and financial management, Problem solving/decision making, Current clinical standards of care, Liaison/guest relations, Coaching and development, Personnel management, Materials/environment management, Nursing department administration, Self-development.
Demonstrates current knowledge of state-of-the-art concepts and issues in own profession and area of specialization.

Responsibilities

Ensures the overall quality of nursing care within the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative areas.
Establishes the necessary monitoring and control techniques to ensure compliance with established standards, regulatory (JCAHO and Title XXII) and hospital guidelines.
Directs, supervises, and motivates staff from operating room, post anesthesia care unit, outpatient/AM admit, sterile processing, surgical materials management, and anesthesia, providing supportive counseling as needed.
Demonstrates management of limited resources including personnel, time, space, equipment, and supplies.
Provides guidance to managers on managing change, motivating staff, and counseling on practice issues.
Makes daily rounds in all areas of department to observe activities of sound nursing judgments, principles of work, simplification of work, and economical use of supplies and equipment.
Acts as a liaison.
Maintains high levels of patient care and a safe environment.
Establishes standards and procedures for the scheduling of surgeries; makes decisions involving conflicts in scheduling and arrangements for individual specialized procedures as necessary.
Recommends and implements professional/technical changes to ensure ongoing innovation and optimization of department skills.
Establishes, attains, and evaluates goals and objectives the department.
Demonstrates current knowledge of trends in the business and healthcare industry, continually analyzing how they impact the department’s operations.
Proactively assesses the environment for changes in existing client needs; explores required resources and revenue impact of new business with potential clients (e.g., surgeons, anesthesiologists).
Communicates/recommends new-business opportunities with cost/benefit analysis; negotiates resource needs and fees and when approved closes transaction with interested client(s).
Identifies real/potential problems affecting the team and acts proactively to prevent injuries, lawsuits, or licensing constraints.
Discusses issues related to physicians with leaders; implements appropriate solutions.
Collaborates with appropriate staff-support personnel in the ongoing development of program planning, implementation, and evaluation.
Provides comprehensive systems analysis to identify workflow practices.
Controls quantity and quality of nursing care by establishing performance standards, analyzing needs, and recommending and implementing changes.
Ensures that working manuals policies and procedures are updated and maintained.
Maintains continuous quality-improvement program, including monthly statistics, quarterly reports, reviews of absenteeism and turnover of employees, all patient and employee incidents, and patient and physician complaints.
Establishes an ongoing database and forecasts of surgery volume and intensity for the budgeting process.
Presents the capital and operating budgets for fiscal review and approval.
Directs purchasing of all supplies and equipment.
Directs daily cost constraints and evaluates the variances (positive and/or negative) in the budget reports.
Analyzes budget expenditures in light of revenue impact department; strategizes budget reductions to maximize hospital revenue and completes and submits operating budgets.
Collaborates with clinical managers, section chairman, and key physicians on equipment and supply needs regularly; monitors budget expenditures for all cost centers.
Strategizes need for capital equipment and technology planning leaders, developing, prioritizing, and submitting capital equipment budget.
Monitors fee structures of other surgical facilities to maintain competitive pricing; creates competitive fee structures for surgical services and supplies.
Collaborates with department managers and materials manager to develop systems to receive, inventory, maintain, and control equipment and supplies.
Identifies and implements action which supports a positive communication system.
Manages group process to build effective working relationships with others in the department and throughout the organization using collaboration and other team-building skills.
Maintains staff morale and productivity at desired levels.
Provides opportunities for development of management team and staff.
Recommends methods to assist staff in reaching their fullest potential.
Reviews staff performance evaluation process and ensures compliance with all policies and procedures.
Directs orientation program utilizing the Performance Based Testing Program.
Coordinates department’s nursing activities with those of other departments, conferring directly with affected Department Directors before instituting changes or initiating new policies/procedures.
Ensures that timely staff meetings are held in order to: Inform staff of policy and procedural changes. Provide opportunity for “round table” discussions; and Provide time for “management team” meetings.
Ensures the overall effective utilization and development of staff.
Coaches and develops management staff as well as self-development to ensure continuous quality improvement and leadership for the effective provision.
Directs the selection, training, performance appraisal, coaching, and discipline processes; approves all employment actions, including terminations.
Directs the network of department by coordinating surgical functions with other departments and disciplines, using research to improve the delivery of quality patient care and fiscal effectiveness.
Collaborates with physicians, hospital administrators, and other disciplines in the organization in development and administration.
Remains flexible in assessing new methods for delivery of surgical care.
Develops patient surgical programs that maintain the hospital’s competitive market position.
Interfaces with physicians to participate in those activities that contribute to the development of new services and procedures.
Monitors compliance with federal, regulatory, accrediting, and hospital recommendations and policies for quality patient care/ staff support services.
Develops, implements, and evaluates an ongoing program to ensure quality patient care within the department by using appropriate hospital resources.
Assesses practices which impact patient care.
Assists in the development of standards of perioperative nursing care and monitors department quality-assurance activities.
Provides administrative leadership in the development of departmental and organizational programs and standards of surgical practice.
Participates in the development and implementation of philosophy, goals, short- and long-range plans of the Department.
Consistently applies hospital and departmental policies.
Establishes department policies with appropriate medical-staff committees and ensures that they are observed along with hospital/personnel policies and applicable codes and laws.
Participates in Medical Staff Committee Meetings.