Divisional Director of Nursing Services (King of Prussia)

Divisional Director Of Nursing Services - Behavioral Health Division

Universal Health Services, Inc. (NYSE : UHS) is one of the nation's largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services. With annual revenues of $15.8 billion in 2024, UHS has grown steadily since its inception into an esteemed Fortune 300 corporation. The company is headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, and operates acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities, outpatient facilities, and various related services across the U.S. and internationally.

The candidate chosen will support a large portfolio of facilities from the Behavioral Health Division of UHS nationwide. This position is critical to the clinical integrity and compliance of our facilities. As a corporate senior leader, you will support, train, and consult your facilities' clinical teams and staff. Travel in this role can be extensive, as up to 80-85% of your time will be traveling to and supporting our facilities.

Role Highlights Include :

• Facilitates and coordinates a review of all nursing related standards of care to ensure that all nursing processes are current and compliant with state and federal nursing standards of practice.
• Develops training material for orientation of nursing leaders and training opportunities related to nursing care and practice.
• Assures that the facility is compliant with all regulations pertaining to nursing, staffing, medication management, and infection control on a federal, state, and local level.
• Sets expectations, develops plans, and manages processes to assess, measure, and improve the quality of nursing care.
• Seeks methods to improve current nursing practices by advocating the use of evidence-based practices.
• Assists in the identification of high risk, problem prone nursing issues and proposes solutions to address these systems practices.
• May be asked to investigate, in collaboration with the hospital, any nursing quality concerns such as those received from the state and federal agencies.
• Assists in preparing in collaboration with appropriate nursing and hospital personnel responses and plans of correction as necessary within designated time frame.
• Conducts analysis of staffing plans to ensure local staffing grids are appropriate to the population in treatment and to support nurse retention.
• Collaborates with CEOs, Group Directors, and VPs on any identified nursing related issues and offers plans for correction as required.

Total Rewards for our Senior Leaders include :

Qualifications :

This position requires regional & national travel, 2-3 weeks per month.

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