Vice President, Chief Nursing Officer
About The Position
At NorthBay Health, the Vice President, Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) is the nursing executive responsible for providing strategic, operational, and clinical leadership for nursing services across NorthBay Medical Center and VacaValley Hospital. Reporting to the Senior Vice President, Hospital President, the CNO is accountable for the delivery of high-quality, safe, patient-centered nursing care while advancing professional nursing practice, workforce engagement, operational excellence, and organizational performance. The CNO holds ultimate responsibility for sustaining the standards of nursing practice in all assigned areas. The CNO partners closely with physician leaders, hospital executives, and interdisciplinary teams to ensure the achievement of strategic priorities, regulatory compliance, and exceptional patient outcomes. In addition to oversight of nursing operations, the CNO provides executive leadership for Nursing Education, ensuring the development of a highly skilled, competent, and future-ready nursing workforce. The Chief Nursing Officer serves as the principal advocate for professional nursing practice and ensures that the voice of nursing is represented in executive and strategic decision-making and partners to shape organizational strategy, advance quality and patient safety, strengthen workforce engagement, and promote a culture of nursing excellence. The CNO champions a professional practice environment that empowers nurses, advances evidence-based practice, and supports NorthBay Health's commitment to nursing excellence and Magnet® principles. As the visible steward of nursing excellence, the CNO leads NorthBay Health’s journey toward and sustainment of ANCC Magnet Recognition®.
Requirements
- Demonstrates NorthBay Health’s True North Values: Nurture Care, Own It, Respect Relationships, Build Trust, and Hardwire Excellence.
Nice To Haves
- Magnet with Distinction designation for nursing
Responsibilities
- Serve as the organization's nursing executive and principal advocate for the nursing profession.
- Represent the voice and perspective of nursing in senior leadership discussions, organizational strategy, and enterprise decision-making.
- Partner as a trusted strategic advisor to the President, Chief Executive Officer, executive leadership team, medical staff leaders, and Board of Directors on matters affecting clinical care, workforce strategy, patient experience, quality, safety, and organizational performance.
- Ensure nursing priorities are integrated into the organization's strategic planning, capital planning, operational initiatives, and long-term organizational goals.
- Foster an environment in which nursing leadership is recognized as an essential contributor to organizational governance and decision-making.
- Ensure delivery of safe, evidence-based, patient-centered care across all inpatient nursing departments.
- Lead initiatives to improve patient safety, clinical quality, patient experience, nursing-sensitive quality indicators, and regulatory readiness.
- Promote high reliability principles and continuous quality improvement methodologies.
- Maintain readiness for Joint Commission, CMS, California Department of Public Health, and other regulatory surveys.
- Provide executive oversight for nursing operations across both hospitals.
- Ensure appropriate staffing models and workforce deployment.
- Optimize nursing productivity while maintaining quality outcomes.
- Partner with operational leaders to improve throughput, patient flow, and capacity management.
- Establish performance expectations and accountability for nursing leadership.
- Advance a professional nursing practice environment grounded in evidence-based care.
- Support shared governance and clinical excellence.
- Promote interdisciplinary collaboration and physician partnership.
- Encourage nursing research, innovation, and adoption of best practices.
- Champion Magnet® principles and nursing excellence initiatives, whether pursuing or maintaining designation.
- Champion a professional nursing practice model that supports shared governance, structural empowerment, exemplary professional practice, innovation, and evidence-based care.
- Promote an environment in which nurses are actively engaged in organizational decision-making, quality improvement, research, professional development, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
- Provide executive sponsorship for nursing councils and shared governance structures that empower frontline nurses to influence practice and patient care.
- Provide executive leadership for the organization's Magnet® journey and ongoing commitment to nursing excellence.
- Ensure alignment with the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® standards by fostering a culture of professional governance, innovation, evidence-based practice, quality outcomes, and continuous improvement.
- Lead initiatives that enhance nurse engagement, professional development, workforce well-being, and nursing-sensitive quality outcomes.
- Promote visibility of nursing leadership throughout the organization while ensuring nursing perspectives are incorporated into executive and Board-level discussions.
- Builds and sustains a shared governance structure that gives direct-care nurses decision-making authority over their practice.
- Establishes and upholds a professional practice model and care-delivery system grounded in evidence and the ANA standards.
- Ensures safe, effective, patient- and family-centered nursing care across all settings and entities.
- Provide executive oversight for Nursing Education, including clinical orientation, nurse residency programs, leadership development, continuing education, specialty certification, clinical competency programs, professional development pathways, and academic partnerships with schools of nursing, research and development of future nursing workforce.
- Ensure educational programming supports organizational goals, regulatory requirements, workforce development, and succession planning.
- Recruit, develop, mentor, and retain high-performing nursing leaders.
- Build leadership succession plans across nursing.
- Foster employee engagement and a culture of belonging.
- Support workforce wellness and resilience initiatives.
- Promote professional growth and career advancement opportunities.
- Oversees adequate and appropriate staffing, competency, and credentialing structures that support quality outcomes.
- Accountable for nurse engagement, satisfaction, and retention outcomes, and for reducing preventable turnover.
- Develop and manage nursing operating and capital budgets.
- Optimize labor resources and financial performance while maintaining quality.
- Identify opportunities for operational efficiencies and cost management.
- Ensure responsible stewardship of organizational resources.
- Collaboration to Strengthen relationships to improve patient outcomes and operational effectiveness.
- Ensure compliance with all federal, state, and accreditation requirements.
- Maintain compliance with California nursing regulations.
- Support infection prevention, patient safety, risk management, and emergency preparedness initiatives.
- Promote ethical practice and regulatory integrity throughout nursing services.
Benefits
- medical, dental, and vision insurance
- life, disability, and long-term care coverage
- paid time off including vacation, sick leave, holidays, and bereavement
- a 403(b) retirement plan with employer match
- education reimbursement for eligible roles
- professional development and training programs
- Employee Assistance Program
- wellness programs
- recognition programs
- shift differentials
- market-based compensation review and increases subject to approval and organizational performance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
Education Level
No Education Listed
