Chief Nursing Officer

Job Description

Job Description

Role requires 25-35% travel to Pennsauken, NJ.

POSITION SUMMARY :

The Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) is a strategic leader and champion of The BAYADA Way, uniting clinical and support teams through an enterprise-wide shared governance framework to uphold exceptional, client-centered care. Operating in a highly matrixed environment, the CNO collaborates with practice leaders, business partners, and structures like the Clinical Council, dyads, and triads to ensure BAYADA’s highest standards of safety, quality, and innovation across all service lines. This role is responsible for partnering with the Enterprise Management Committee, driving high performance improvement, high-reliability practices, and advancements in safety, infection prevention, and client experience. The CNO leads the Quality, Performance Improvement, and Client Experience teams. Serving as a trusted internal consultant to executive, practice, and functional leaders, the CNO nurtures inclusivity, lifelong growth, and empowerment—modeling transformational leadership that inspires teams to innovate, embrace best practices, and further BAYADA’s heartfelt mission for exceptional home-based care.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS :

• Exemplifies characteristics of The BAYADA Way : compassion, excellence and reliability.
• MSN required; Doctorate Level (DNP or PhD) preferred.
• Ten (10) years of nursing leadership with responsibility for performance improvement enterprise-wide strategy.
• Home Health care experience preferred.
• Highly analytical, motivated, decisive thought leader.
• Strategic mindset with an ability to think broadly, refine questions,
• High level of accuracy, attention to detail, with strong analytic and project management skillset.
• Strong program management and organizational skills, with experience supporting strategic projects working across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Executive level financial and business acumen.
• Effective in identifying and driving care delivery business enhancements to maximize value and objectives.
• Demonstrated effectiveness at a senior level in planning, leading, organizing, and directing staff, teams, and projects in multiple locations while simultaneously serving multiple stakeholders.
• High emotional intelligence and communication (verbal and written) skills that educate and influence.
• Highly experienced with styles of authority / decision making including influential, consensus building and line authority.
• Skilled in the development of executive-level presentations and facilitation of meetings with senior leaders to appropriately communicate thought processes, gather feedback, and drive towards the outcomes.
• Experience driving business process improvements that establish a data-based business value (i.e., adherence to Lean / Six Sigma)
• Strong leadership ability. Able to influence and energize others to drive change. Ability to lead highly- performing and engaged teams.
• Strong capability to work collaboratively with key internal and external leaders, partners, vendors. Ability to adapt communication and management style to achieve overall collaboration.
• Self-starter, highly proactive, and collaborative.
• Acceptable pre-employment assessment results.
• Ability to read, write and effectively communicate in English.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES :

BAYADA believes that our employees are our greatest asset :

As an accredited, regulated, certified, and licensed home health care provider, BAYADA complies with all state / local mandates.

BAYADA is celebrating 50 years of compassion, excellence, and reliability. Learn more about our 50th anniversary celebration and how you can join in here.

BAYADA Home Health Care, Inc., and its associated entities and joint venture partners, are Equal Opportunity Employers. All employment decisions are made on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to sex, race, color, age, disability, pregnancy or maternity, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, military status, or any other similarly protected status in accordance with federal, state and local laws. Hence, we strongly encourage applications from people with these identities or who are members of other marginalized communities.