Nursing Director Outcomes/Practice

University of Vermont Health Network • Burlington, VT

6d • $67 - $101 • Onsite

About The Position

The Director of Nursing Outcomes, Practice & Systems provides executive leadership for nursing quality, patient safety, professional practice, and performance improvement. The Director establishes and executes the nursing quality strategy, advances high‑reliability behaviors, ensures regulatory and accreditation readiness, and leads the performance system for nursing‑sensitive indicators using evidence‑based practice, analytics, and improvement methodologies. This leader serves as the primary nursing liaison to the Jeffords Institute for Quality, partnering to align measurement, regulatory, and improvement strategies that impact nursing practice. The Director sets direction for nursing practice, policy management, and care delivery optimization related to quality/ safety; partners with the CNIO and informatics teams to enhance clinical documentation, decision support, workflow usability, and technology adoption; and leads nursing’s engagement in Clinical Value Analysis for products and equipment that affect safety, quality, and efficiency. The role ensures equity in outcomes and co‑designs improvements with patients, families, frontline nurses, and interdisciplinary partners. The role oversees, supports and develops the inpatient nurse clinicians, nursing informaticists & nursing program/ project managers and assures their work is in alignment with departmental and organizational goals. In collaboration with the Nursing Director team, this role co‑leads and contributes to enterprise communication and relationship‑building; medical staff and interdisciplinary collaboration; leadership and change initiatives; professionalism and community engagement; financial and operational stewardship; staffing productivity and labor management; and human resources management. Working closely with the CNO and peer directors, the Director translates strategic priorities into operational objectives, budgets, staffing models, and resource plans—to ensure consistency and spread across nursing. The Director models the UVMMC Leadership Core Competencies—creating a high‑performance culture; coaching and developing others; demonstrating a strong commitment to care and service; navigating complex change; championing innovation and evidence‑based practice; and building trusting relationships—while promoting psychological safety, professional accountability, and continuous learning.

Requirements

• Demonstrated commitment to life-long learning required.
• Masters in Nursing required.
• Current RN licensure, compact licensure or APRN recognized by the State of Vermont is required.
• Five years nursing leadership experience.
• Experience at the director level in Healthcare setting within Nursing preferred.

Nice To Haves

• DPN/PhD in Nursing preferred.
• Certification in related nursing specialty preferred.
• Experience in integrated health systems in an academic medical center preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provides executive leadership for nursing quality, patient safety, professional practice, and performance improvement.
• Establishes and executes the nursing quality strategy.
• Advances high-reliability behaviors.
• Ensures regulatory and accreditation readiness.
• Leads the performance system for nursing-sensitive indicators using evidence-based practice, analytics, and improvement methodologies.
• Serves as the primary nursing liaison to the Jeffords Institute for Quality, partnering to align measurement, regulatory, and improvement strategies that impact nursing practice.
• Sets direction for nursing practice, policy management, and care delivery optimization related to quality/safety.
• Partners with the CNIO and informatics teams to enhance clinical documentation, decision support, workflow usability, and technology adoption.
• Leads nursing’s engagement in Clinical Value Analysis for products and equipment that affect safety, quality, and efficiency.
• Ensures equity in outcomes and co-designs improvements with patients, families, frontline nurses, and interdisciplinary partners.
• Oversees, supports and develops the inpatient nurse clinicians, nursing informaticists & nursing program/ project managers and assures their work is in alignment with departmental and organizational goals.
• Co-leads and contributes to enterprise communication and relationship-building.
• Co-leads and contributes to medical staff and interdisciplinary collaboration.
• Co-leads and contributes to leadership and change initiatives.
• Co-leads and contributes to professionalism and community engagement.
• Co-leads and contributes to financial and operational stewardship.
• Co-leads and contributes to staffing productivity and labor management.
• Co-leads and contributes to human resources management.
• Translates strategic priorities into operational objectives, budgets, staffing models, and resource plans—to ensure consistency and spread across nursing.
• Models the UVMMC Leadership Core Competencies—creating a high-performance culture; coaching and developing others; demonstrating a strong commitment to care and service; navigating complex change; championing innovation and evidence-based practice; and building trusting relationships—while promoting psychological safety, professional accountability, and continuous learning.

Benefits

• The University of Vermont Medical Center is committed to being a national model for the delivery of high-quality academic health care for a rural region. The University of Vermont Medical Center will continue to ensure that individuals are employed, and that employees are treated during candidacy and employment, without regard to their sex, gender identity or expression, ancestry, place of birth, HIV status, marital status, age, language, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status or obligation for service in the armed forces, or any other characteristic protected by law in all employment practices as follows: Employment decisions at The University of Vermont Medical Center are based on legitimate job-related criteria. All personnel actions or programs that affect qualified individuals, such as employment, upgrading, demotion, transfer, recruitment, advertising, termination, rate of pay or other forms of compensation, and selection for training, are made without discrimination based upon the individual’s sex, gender identity or expression, ancestry, place of birth, HIV status, marital status, age, language, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status or obligation for service in the armed forces, or any other characteristic protected by law.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director