Nursing Director, Radiation Oncology BWH

Mass General Brigham•Boston, MA

10d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Nurse Director of Radiation Oncology provides comprehensive leadership and oversight for all nursing services across Brigham and Women’s Department of Radiation Oncology, spanning the Academic Medical Center (BWH Boston) and three community-based practice locations (DFBCC South Shore Hospital, DFBCC Milford Regional, BWH-Sturdy Mansfield). In addition, the incumbent collaborates with BWH affiliates locally, nationally, and internationally. This role is responsible for the strategic, clinical, and operational direction of radiation oncology nursing practice, ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality, and patient-centered care across the system. The Nurse Director is responsible for supporting, mentoring, and supervising nurse leadership and staff, with direct oversight of Nurse Managers and/or Clinical Nurse Leaders and indirect oversight of the broader radiation oncology nursing team. The incumbent ensures that nursing practice is aligned with evidence-based standards, that patient care workflows are efficient and consistent across sites, and that nurses practice at the highest levels of clinical and professional competence in both academic and community settings. In this capacity, the Director provides nursing operational oversight for the full scope of clinical services and programs within the Department of Radiation Oncology, spanning a diverse range of treatment modalities, including complex and procedural-based services, integration of anesthesia-supported care, and collaboration in supportive and palliative care programs. Serving as a clinical and operational expert, the Nurse Director collaborates closely with physician, radiation therapy, advanced practice provider, and administrative leaders to support coordinated multidisciplinary care, implementation of new clinical programs and technologies, optimization of patient care workflows, and compliance with departmental, regulatory, and accreditation standards. The Director plays a key role in advancing quality and safety initiatives, patient experience, nursing professional development, and system-wide integration efforts, with a focus on standardization, innovation, and continuous improvement. The Nurse Director will collaborate closely with Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Radiation Oncology nurse leadership to promote alignment of clinical practice standards, care models, and quality initiatives across the academic medical centers. Through this partnership, the Director will support broader efforts to advance clinical integration, consistency in patient care, and shared best practices across the system. This position is a critical leader in shaping the future of nursing practice within Radiation Oncology and advancing high-quality, integrated oncology care across the Mass General Brigham system. Additionally, they participate in the development, refinement, communication, and actualization of the BWH Department of Nursing (DON) vision, professional practice model, and relationship-based care delivery system

Requirements

Current registration/licensure in nursing in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MSN (or) DNP (or) PhD, (or) a BSN with Master’s degree in a related field, required.
Current certification required or to be attained within two years from date of hire. Certification must be maintained while employed in this position.
Minimum of 2 years nurse manager and/or nurse director experience in an ambulatory clinic setting required.
Must have demonstrated clinical competence in nursing practice.
Must possess analytical abilities necessary to organize, to supervise and to evaluate the work of others; to develop and to administer policies, procedures, budgets, and utilize current concepts of nursing practice.
Must possess interpersonal skills sufficient to provide effective leadership to staff, and to interact with patients, visitors, physicians, other clinical disciplines, and a variety of hospital departments.
Must possess both management and leadership skills to be effective with multiple levels of staff.
Strong partnership and collaboration with current Nurse Director of Ambulatory Specialties and Nurse Director of Nurse Practitioners.

Nice To Haves

Experience with managing staff at clinics in multiple sites/locations preferred.
Demonstrated evidence of exemplary nursing practice in multiple specialty areas strongly preferred.
Clinical experience will be evaluated on an individual basis by the hiring associate chief nurse.
Recent experience as a nurse leader responsible for collaboration in a highly matrixed leadership structure helpful.

Responsibilities

Creates an environment that supports and celebrates the professional growth of nursing practice.
Actively supports the development of new nursing knowledge.
Assures the use of and adherence to evidence-informed practice/standards for nursing care.
Assures the practice environment supports reflective practice, e.g. through the use of narratives, and meets the needs of the relevant patient population
Participates in self-performance appraisal process in ongoing manner.
Seeks feedback from his/her professional colleagues.
Shares strengths and areas to be developed with associate chief nurse and other colleagues as appropriate.
Maintains necessary clinical and managerial expertise through evidence-based practice.
Participates in service- and department-wide developmental initiatives.
Demonstrates commitment to lifelong learning, e.g. through active participation in professional organizations.
Conducts timely assessments of staff learning needs and assure programs/projects are in place to address them, including collaboration with the Professional Development Managers and the center for Nursing Excellence.
Facilitates opportunities for staff to precept and teach others.
Serves as a clinical leader/coach /mentor to staff.
Promotes staff participation in annual goal setting for his/her patient care area[s] and the Department of Nursing.
Serves as a leader within the community of nursing, in accordance with the standards of the discipline of nursing, including adherence to the ANA Code of Ethics.
Assures appropriate personnel to meet the needs of the designated patient population.
Designs and implements staffing patterns responsive to a dynamic care environment.
Interviews, hires and oversees the orientation of new employees considering departmental, divisional, local and individual employee needs as basis of decisions.
Provided ongoing formal and informal feedback regarding performance to staff members.
Delegates authority and/or responsibility to others as appropriate while maintaining 24x7 accountability.
Demonstrates consistent leadership in the maintenance of a fair and just culture.
Assures staff participation in local-based decision making, Department of Nursing committees and initiatives.
Provides formal and informal opportunities for staff to develop personal career goals and plans for their achievement.
Provides ongoing formal and informal feedback regarding professional development to staff members.
Encourages and recommends staff participation in unit-based decision making, Department of Nursing committees and organizational initiatives.
Creates an environment that celebrates the professional growth of nursing practice.
Responsible for creating and maintaining a caring, therapeutic, healing, patient- and family-centered care environment.
Assures the presence of interventions to promote/assure a patient and family centered healing environment.
Assures appropriate staffing plan to meet patient care needs on a continuous basis
Promotes an inclusive environment supportive of a patient- and family- centered care for a diverse community.
Serves as a leader of the clinical discipline, committed to excellence in nursing care and positive patient outcomes.
Accountable for contributions to planning, implementing and evaluating the Department of Nursing Quality Plan, inclusive of nurse sensitive indicators and patient satisfaction metrics.
Actively participates in Brigham and Women’s Hospital quality improvement programs, assuring clear articulation of the quality agenda by all staff in his/her patient care area(s) and/or specialty patient populations.
Develops local-based quality agenda using performance improvement methodologies in collaboration with department and hospital-based quality leaders assuring an environment of continuous quality improvement, improved patient and systems’ outcomes.
Actively translates quality improvement findings into daily operations and strategic planning for the clinical area.
Communicates and translates outcomes to staff and interdisciplinary colleagues, assuring staffs active participation in addressing quality improvement opportunities.
Serves as a resource on clinical matters to assure an environment that promotes the desired patient outcomes.
Assures all staff members are in compliance with regulatory standards. [For example, required licensure, orientation, ongoing education and annual competencies and screenings for ongoing employment].
Provides leadership in developing quality-driven and cost-effective plans to deliver patient care, including participation in strategic planning.
Assures the accurate attainment and review of data (complexity, volume, acuity, etc) in relation to staffing effectiveness.
Develops and participates in creating systems to monitor the patient care environment, knowledgeable about and mindful of relevant regulatory compliance.
Seeks and provides peer consultation and collaboration.
Contributes to strategy, practice and policy decisions assuring all decisions made include perspectives of constituents to be represented.
Assures self and staff participation in DON and interdepartmental committees.
Represents service/DON as requested on various hospital task forces/committees.
Demonstrates leadership in interdisciplinary collaboration, including participation in the development, implementation and evaluation of joint protocols for patient care.
Collaborates in department-wide recruitment and retention strategies and initiatives.
Collaborates with HR staff/leadership re: personnel management as appropriate.
Seeks resources/serves as a liaison for staff from within the larger nursing and BWH communities.
Manages patient flow ensuring collaboration with other patient care areas and/or Patient Access Department.
Establishes and maintain open communication with managers of Support Services and other Department of Nursing resources as needed to assure clean and safe patient care environments.
Collaborates broadly across clinical and operational areas outside of Radiation Oncology to ensure effective coordination of resources, seamless communication, and continuity of patient care.
Accountable to seek necessary information, including active engagement of staff, to establish trends necessary to determine appropriate personnel and supply budgets.
Manages to budget and articulates any short or long-term variances.
Collaborates in the creation of annual operating and capital budget submissions, inclusive of proposals for new initiatives to enhance the clinical services of the department to achieve institutional and departmental strategic priorities.
Collaborates with Associate Chief Nurse/Senior Nursing Director and Radiation Oncology leadership to be fiscally responsive, i.e. managing volume and acuity to hours per workload index (HPWI).
Develops schedules/ staffing plans that meet patient care needs on a continuous basis.
Collaborates with nurse leaders and other departments to assure adequate supplies, operational, capital resources are available to staff caring for patients.