Executive Director - Nursing

Job Description

The Executive Director - Nursing provides oversight and leadership of all aspects of the Transfer Center, Clinical Staffing Services, Wound Care, Central Monitoring, Vascular Access, Stroke Program, and House Supervisors across the Baptist Hospital and Gulf Breeze campuses. The position provides operational leadership to the department and works collaboratively with nursing and other organizational leaders to ensure delivery of highly reliable, safe patient care while ensuring stewardship of organizational resources. The position is accountable for maintaining a work environment conducive to professional growth, accountability and autonomy while ensuring the department functions in accordance with regulatory agency standards. In collaboration with clinical teams, the position is responsible for assuring the appropriate clinical admission placement functions, for Baptist Health Care across campuses, are facilitated and for oversight of the inbound and outbound transfer process. The position includes the supervision of the transfer center staff to assist physicians or physician offices and other facilities with direct admits, direct transfers, ED transfers, or STEMI Alert processes to ensure the proper level of care is identified and assigned at admission. Additionally, this includes supervision over the house supervisors and clinical staffing services to form a partnership with the clinical managers in facilitating patient placement and providing for safe staffing plans across BH and GB campuses. The leader in this role may have delegated oversight of additional departments such as wound care, dialysis, central monitoring or others as appropriate. This role will also play a vital role in ongoing future development and growth for the organization's transfer and direct access program. The Executive Director - Nursing participates in and leads initiatives to standardize the transitioning of patients through the system.

Responsibilities

• Acts as a clinical resource and leader for the Transfer Center Department. Coordinates the patient flow committee and consistently monitors and evaluates aspects of bed placement and patient flow.
• Coordinates the patient flow committee and consistently monitors and evaluates aspects of bed placement and patient flow.
• Is knowledgeable and serves as a resource for the Bed Tracking Software. Performs all the necessary functions according to policy and procedure.
• Provides guidance to the Clinical Staffing Services Manager and assures team members are fulfilling their required work commitment. Uses predictive staffing patterns to assure coverage by nurses, patient care technicians and sitters.
• Demonstrates the ability to effectively lead the House Supervisors. Fosters an environment of collaboration and problem solving while providing mentoring and professional growth opportunities.
• Serves as the liaison for Baptist and Gulf Breeze Hospitals with community organ and tissue procurement agencies. Organizes the community of practice meetings and provides data and education as needed.
• Develops, implements, and evaluates an ongoing services program that ensures the provision of safe clinical practice that emphasizes reliability in performance and is consistent with the hospital mission.
• Works collaboratively with the Departmental Managers and Education Department to ensure clinical competencies are evidence based and align with policy. Holds self and others accountable to maintain current competencies.
• Accurately identifies real / potential problems affecting the service and implements solutions with follow through and communication.
• Monitors / maintains department compliance with regulatory, accrediting and hospital policy for patient services, and environmental and personnel safety.
• Ensures the efficient, economic, and quality performance of assigned departments / areas of responsibility to support or provide quality health care services.
• Working with others (e.g., patients, families, healthcare providers) in a way that promotes / encourages each person's contributions toward achieving optimal / realistic patient / family goals. Involves intra- and inter-disciplinary work with colleagues and community.
• Attains all agreed to goals and objectives within specified time frames, as part of the organization's overall mission.
• Is responsible for department's operational excellence; ensures department delivers quality services in accordance with applicable policies, procedures, and professional standards.
• Manage team members which include orientation, development and evaluation of personnel, and monitoring the provision of delivering quality services. Participates in the recruiting, interviewing and selecting of team members following policies, guidelines and applicable laws. Evaluates their performance relative to job goals and requirements. Provides coaching to staff, recommends in-service education programs, and ensures adherence to internal policies and standards.
• Is responsible for the fiscal management of department; assures proper utilization of organization's financial resources.
• Effectively communicates departmental, organization, and industry information to staff.
• May be required to remain on campus immediately before, during, and after severe weather and / or disasters.

Qualifications

Minimum Education

Minimum Work Experience

Licenses and Certifications

Required Skills, Knowledge and Abilities

About Us

Baptist Health Care is a not-for-profit health care system committed to improving the quality of life for people and communities in northwest Florida and south Alabama. The organization includes three hospitals, four medical parks, Andrews Institute for Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine, and an extensive primary and specialty care provider network. With more than 4,000 team members, Baptist Health Care is one of the largest non-governmental employers in northwest Florida.

Baptist Health Care, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. BHC maintains and enforces a policy that prohibits discrimination against any workforce members or applicants for employment because of sex, race, age, color, disability, marital status, national origin, religion, genetic information, or other category protected by federal, state or local law.