Market Chief Nursing Officer, Southern CA
About The Position
The Market Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) is the senior nursing executive for California Hospital Medical Center in Los Angeles and also contributes collaborative leadership across CommonSpirit Health’s six-hospital Southern California market. The role’s primary focus is leading nursing operations, advancing clinical excellence, and strengthening patient experience at California Hospital Medical Center, while working with market CNOs to align nursing practices, build leadership collaboration, and support consistent, high-quality patient care. The CNO provides visible, hands-on leadership to nursing teams and partners with physicians, hospital executives, frontline staff, and labor representatives. The position advances quality outcomes, patient safety, workforce engagement, patient experience, and operational performance. Across the market, the CNO helps establish shared standards, exchange best practices, mentor nursing leaders, and support nursing operations, including providing interim nursing executive leadership when needed. The successful candidate brings California acute care nursing leadership experience, including experience in unionized environments and complex hospital operations. The role calls for an approachable, relationship-focused leader who can coach and develop nursing leaders, guide organizational change, and bring people together around common goals while supporting CommonSpirit Health’s mission of humankindness.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Nursing (BSN) or a related field, with a BSN or MSN required.
- Master’s degree in Nursing, Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, Education, or Public Health.
- Minimum of 10 years of nursing experience.
- Minimum of 5 years of progressive nursing leadership experience.
- Active California Registered Nurse (RN) license upon hire.
- Demonstrated nursing leadership experience in California’s acute care hospital environment.
- Experience working in unionized healthcare environments, including labor relations and nursing workforce management.
- Demonstrated ability to build collaborative physician relationships, develop nursing leaders, and improve clinical quality and patient experience.
Nice To Haves
- Previous experience as a Chief Nursing Officer, Associate Chief Nursing Officer, or comparable senior nursing executive within an acute care hospital.
- Experience collaborating with nursing leaders across multiple hospitals or within an integrated health system.
- Demonstrated success improving nursing quality outcomes, patient experience, and employee engagement.
- Experience leading organizational change, clinical transformation, or large-scale technology implementations.
- Professional nursing executive certification, such as NEA-BC.
Responsibilities
- Provide executive leadership and operational oversight of nursing services at California Hospital Medical Center, promoting clinical quality, patient safety, patient experience, workforce engagement, and operational performance.
- Collaborate with CNOs across the six-hospital Southern California market to align nursing practices, establish consistent standards, share best practices, and advance shared clinical and operational priorities.
- Build collaborative relationships with physicians, hospital executives, nursing leaders, frontline staff, and labor representatives.
- Mentor, coach, and develop nursing leaders; support leadership effectiveness, professional growth, and succession planning; and serve as a resource to fellow market CNOs.
- Lead and support evidence-based initiatives to improve nursing-sensitive quality indicators, patient satisfaction, clinical outcomes, and regulatory compliance through continuous performance improvement.
- Guide nursing teams through operational changes, clinical transformation, technology implementations, and other initiatives affecting care delivery.
- Maintain a visible leadership presence through regular rounding, staff engagement, and active collaboration with medical staff to identify improvement opportunities and strengthen organizational culture.
- Provide interim nursing executive leadership across the market when needed to maintain continuity, consistency, and operational effectiveness.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
