VP/CNO Benioff Children’s Hospitals
About The Position
Reporting to the President - Benioff Children’s Hospitals (BCH), the Vice President, Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) - Benioff Children’s Hospitals provides strategic direction, executive level leadership, planning, organization and general management for all aspects of patient care services at the BCH campuses in San Francisco and Oakland, ensuring integration of services and compliance with long range objectives and strategies, including the provision of excellent quality services and the practice of sound business practices. As a key member of the Children’s Executive Leadership team within UCSF Health, the CNO contributes to the development and implementation of major strategic goals and direction, and provides vision for all aspects of patient care, quality, and patient safety issues. The CNO serves as the most senior nursing executive at the children’s hospital, responsible for strategic leadership, operational oversight, and professional practice across all nursing and designated patient care services. This role ensures the delivery of safe, high-quality, family-centered care that is developmentally appropriate and aligned with the organization’s mission, values, and clinical standards. The CNO partners closely with system nursing leadership, physician executives, and hospital administration to align pediatric nursing practice with enterprise-wide priorities, including quality, safety, workforce strategy, and financial performance. They champion evidence-based practice, nursing research, and innovation, while fostering a culture of accountability, equity, and continuous improvement. In a large system context, the CNO functions as both an advocate for the unique needs of pediatric patients and staff and a collaborator in system-level decision-making, ensuring that children’s services are effectively integrated, resourced, and represented across the continuum of care.
Requirements
- Executive level leadership experience
- Strategic direction and planning abilities
- General management skills
- Experience in patient care services
- Understanding of long-range objectives and strategies
- Knowledge of excellent quality services and sound business practices
- Contribution to strategic goals and direction
- Vision for patient care, quality, and patient safety
- Experience as a senior nursing executive
- Operational oversight experience
- Experience in professional practice across nursing and designated patient care services
- Ensuring delivery of safe, high-quality, family-centered care
- Ensuring care is developmentally appropriate
- Alignment with organization’s mission, values, and clinical standards
- Partnership with system nursing leadership, physician executives, and hospital administration
- Alignment of pediatric nursing practice with enterprise-wide priorities
- Championing evidence-based practice, nursing research, and innovation
- Fostering a culture of accountability, equity, and continuous improvement
- Oversight of nursing operations, staffing models, workforce planning, and labor management
- Advancement of professional governance and nursing engagement
- Ensuring compliance with regulatory, accreditation, and Magnet (or equivalent) standards
- Developing leadership pipelines
- Supporting interdisciplinary collaboration
- Advancing patient and family experience initiatives tailored to pediatric populations
- Advocacy for unique needs of pediatric patients and staff
- Collaboration in system-level decision-making
- Ensuring effective integration, resourcing, and representation of children’s services
Responsibilities
- Provides strategic direction, executive level leadership, planning, organization and general management for all aspects of patient care services at the BCH campuses in San Francisco and Oakland.
- Ensures integration of services and compliance with long range objectives and strategies, including the provision of excellent quality services and the practice of sound business practices.
- Contributes to the development and implementation of major strategic goals and direction for the Children’s Executive Leadership team within UCSF Health.
- Provides vision for all aspects of patient care, quality, and patient safety issues.
- Serves as the most senior nursing executive at the children’s hospital, responsible for strategic leadership, operational oversight, and professional practice across all nursing and designated patient care services.
- Ensures the delivery of safe, high-quality, family-centered care that is developmentally appropriate and aligned with the organization’s mission, values, and clinical standards.
- Partners closely with system nursing leadership, physician executives, and hospital administration to align pediatric nursing practice with enterprise-wide priorities, including quality, safety, workforce strategy, and financial performance.
- Champions evidence-based practice, nursing research, and innovation.
- Fosters a culture of accountability, equity, and continuous improvement.
- Oversees nursing operations, staffing models, workforce planning, and labor management.
- Advances professional governance and nursing engagement.
- Ensures compliance with regulatory, accreditation, and Magnet (or equivalent) standards.
- Develops leadership pipelines.
- Supports interdisciplinary collaboration.
- Advances patient and family experience initiatives tailored to pediatric populations.
- Functions as both an advocate for the unique needs of pediatric patients and staff and a collaborator in system-level decision-making.
- Ensures that children’s services are effectively integrated, resourced, and represented across the continuum of care.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
Education Level
No Education Listed
