Chief Nursing Officer at Providence

Description

St. Joseph Health, Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital (SJH-SRMH) is a nonprofit, full-service, 338-bed health care facility founded by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange. Services include cancer, cardiac, critical care, emergency/a level II trauma center, maternity, and infant care; neurosciences; orthopedics; pediatrics, and the UCSF neonatal intensive care nursery, and more. The hospital works collaboratively with other hospitals within Providence St. Joseph Health, as well as numerous outpatient facilities, affiliated physicians, home and community care, and St. Joseph Health Medical Group providers, to ensure patients receive the highest level of care, close to home.

THE ROLE

Administers all aspects of nursing operations. Creates and manages an environment to provide safe, effective, and high quality, values based patient care in a fiscally responsible manner through direction, support, and development of direct reports and nursing staff, and through work with the medical staff and management staff of other divisions. Assures development of patient care policies and procedures, standards of care, standards of practice and standards to measure, assess and improve patient outcomes.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Plans, administers and evaluates patient care programs and nursing operations.
• Participates in the organization’s long range planning, goal development, strategic initiatives and designing of patient care services and programs with the senior management team, medical staff, board and other clinical leaders.
• Plans, implements and evaluates patient care programs based on regulatory standards, external benchmarks, research findings, literature and internal standards.
• Developing and implementing organization-wide patient care programs, policies and procedures that describe how patients’ nursing care needs are assessed, evaluated and met.
• Assures the development, review, and approval of patient care programs, standards, protocols and procedures that are consistent with current nursing research, professional standards and current professional literature, and describe how patients’ care needs are assessed, evaluated and met.
• Assures a sufficient number of qualified nursing staff are provided to meet patients’ care requirements by developing and implementing the organization’s plan for providing nursing care to those patients requiring nursing care.
• Implementing an effective ongoing performance improvement program in collaboration with other departments and medical staff to continuously improve patient care services.
• Assures nursing staff are competent by supporting training and competency programs and by acting as a resource to Directors and Managers regarding performance management.
• Utilizes team building strategies to develop cohesive work groups, promote teamwork and collaboration to enhance communication and problem solving to improve patient care.
• Responsible for coordinating, planning and managing the annual budget for patient care departments in collaboration with department directors.
• Participates as a member of St. Joseph Health System’s Patient Care Executive Council in policy decisions affecting patient care services at relevant levels of corporate decision making within the system.
• Ensures that staff possesses the appropriate knowledge and skills necessary to provide care to the age of the patients served, including knowledge of the principles of growth and development and psycho-social characteristics and interventions for the population served on the unit.
• Ensures that staff is competent in assessing and interpreting age appropriate data about the patients’ in order to provide the care needed.
• Ensures that staff possesses the appropriate communication skills for the patient population served.
• Ensures that staff demonstrates knowledge of age-specific community resources and continually updates staff appropriately.
• May engage in public speaking periodically.
• May serve as administrator-on-call.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing or other health care related degree
• Bachelor's Degree or Master's Degree must be in Nursing
• Master's Degree in Nursing or other health care related degree
• Bachelor's Degree or Master's Degree must be in Nursing
• Upon hire: California Registered Nurse License (Vendor Managed)
• 10 or more years of progressive management experience in Nursing and Patient Care Services
• 3 years of experience in Administration or nurse executive position in similar size or larger facility
• Flexibility and the ability to prioritize multiple projects and work time as required
• Proven ability to work well with individuals and groups
• Requires ability to work with diverse populations of all ages
• Knowledgeable in the principles of human resources administration, quality improvement, and JCAHO standards
• Effective budgetary planning and administrative skills
• Strong supervisory/management and leadership skills
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing
• Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships within and without the organization
• Effective public speaking skills, as well as ability to develop and conduct effective presentations
• Knowledge and utilization of computer applications (Windows software)
• Knowledge of and ability to use accounting methods and interpretation of statistical data.

About Providence

At Providence, our strength lies in Our Promise of “Know me, care for me, ease my way.” Working at our family of organizations means that regardless of your role, we’ll walk alongside you in your career, supporting you so you can support others. We provide best-in-class benefits and we foster an inclusive workplace where diversity is valued, and everyone is essential, heard and respected. Together, our 120,000 caregivers (all employees) serve in over 50 hospitals, over 1,000 clinics and a full range of health and social services across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. As a comprehensive health care organization, we are serving more people, advancing best practices and continuing our more than 100-year tradition of serving the poor and vulnerable.

The amounts listed are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.

Providence offers a comprehensive benefits package including a retirement 401(k) Savings Plan with employer matching, health care benefits (medical, dental, vision), life insurance, disability insurance, time off benefits (paid parental leave, vacations, holidays, health issues), voluntary benefits, well-being resources and much more. Learn more at providence.jobs/benefits.

Requsition ID: 330056

Company: Providence Jobs

Job Category: Nursing-Patient Facing

Job Function: Nursing

Job Schedule: Full time

Job Shift: Day

Career Track: Leadership

Department: 7820 ADMINISTRATION

Address: CA Santa Rosa 1165 Montgomery Dr

Work Location: Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital

Workplace Type: On-site

Pay Range: $122.67 - $226.54

The amounts listed are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.

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