Vice President, Operations, PeriOperative and Procedural Services

Thomas Jefferson University • Philadelphia, PA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Vice President provides oversight and strategic leadership for perioperative and procedural services across multiple hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, procedural centers, and other locations throughout TJUH, Inc. The Vice President establishes an integrated operating model across sites and services to maximize the use of available capacity and appropriately match patients, procedures, physicians, equipment, staffing, and facilities to the most appropriate location. The VP will lead a highly integrated region enterprise operating model and may have direct or matrixed responsibility for PeriOp and Procedural leaders across multiple locations.

Requirements

• Master’s Degree required
• Minimum of five years managerial experience in business or healthcare administration to include demonstration of advanced knowledge and application of management skills, medical staff relations, financial management, business development, and clinical department operations.

Nice To Haves

• Prior hospital operations executive leadership experience strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Identify opportunities to expand surgical and procedural capacity and improve access across the enterprise
• Optimize OR and Procedural room utilization, block allocation, scheduling practices, turnover, throughput, and prime-time capacity
• Establish strong, collaborative partnerships with surgical and procedural department chairs, in order to establish clear expectations between physician practices, and PeriOp operations regarding scheduling and operational readiness
• Establish methodologies to measure demand versus available capacity by site, specialty, physician, room, equipment, and workforce
• Partner with quality, infection prevention, risk management, medical staff, and nursing leadership to improve surgical and procedural outcomes
• Assess current and future workforce requirements based on procedural demand, operating hours, productivity, specialty mix, and growth plans
• Partner with surgeons, physicians, nursing, Supply Chain, Biomedical Engineering, Finance, and Value Analysis to assess clinical need, utilization, lifecycle, technology requirements, and financial impact
• Provide strategic oversight and accountability for Sterile Processing/Distribution and its integration with perioperative operations. Ensure SPD capacity is aligned with current and projected surgical and procedural growth
• Use data to identify performance variation between sites and service lines and develop targeted improvement plans

Benefits

• medical (including prescription)
• supplemental insurance
• dental
• vision
• life and AD&D insurance
• short- and long-term disability
• flexible spending accounts
• retirement plans
• tuition assistance
• voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts
• tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service.

What This Job Offers

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