Director of Surgical Services - Lawrence General Hospital

Join us at Holy Family Hospital

Our two campuses in Methuen and Haverhill have a total of 320 beds, and we are a full-service, acute care hospital offering comprehensive inpatient medical/surgical units, outpatient care, and 24/7 emergency services. We have three behavioral health units: cardiac telemetry, and critical care service lines. Our Haverhill campus offers all private rooms, and our Methuen campus offers a new state-of-the-art catheterization suite and Joint Center of Excellence, named as a Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Distinction+ Center for Knee and Hip Replacement.

Responsibilities:

• Develops mechanisms to assess patients (and families) response to nursing care and validates that care provided to patients is consistent with nursing care plan, medical treatment, and is responsive to patient and family expectations
• Supports and helps implement evidenced-based practice
• Facilitates multidisciplinary care to ensure the best possible outcome for patients
• Monitors financial performance (expenses, revenues, and productivity) and justifies monthly budget variances
• Demonstrates financial savvy, applying key financial concepts to decision making
• Ensures that staffing patterns meet work requirements and that all employee are competent (annually training, and annual performance evaluations are complete)
• Monitors staff turnover and develops and implements retention strategies to maintain turnover less that 8% annually
• Assumes accountability for all relevant personnel functions as appropriate; i.e., recruitment, hiring, firing, evaluating, counseling, and educating with primary emphasis placed on staff retention
• Assumes accountability for remaining current regarding standards of care established by the profession, regulatory & accreditation bodies and hospital policy and procedures
• Ensures that nursing practice is consistent with those current standards
• Sets and enforces high standards for the quality of patient care delivered on the unit(s).
• Directs unit-based performance improvement and patient/employee safety programs and projects
• Participates on task forces, PI teams, committees, etc.
• Identifies patient and employee safety risks and makes changes to reduce
• Utilizes tools such as root cause analysis and failure mode effect and analysis to investigate sentinel events (and near misses)
• Holds staff accountable for patient and employee safety standards, polices, procedures and practices
• Organizes, prioritizes and coordinates time and resources to improve efficiency
• Demonstrates initiative, recognizing and embracing opportunities for improvement
• Plans and prioritizes best method for accomplishing short and long term goals
• Encourages cooperation, teamwork at the department, division, and hospital wide levels

Qualifications:

1. Education: Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
2. Experience: , a minimum of four years experience in clinical nursing with demonstrated clinical competence in the specialty area of nursing practice. Leadership experience required
3. Certification/Licensure: BLS required.