Area Director of Advanced Practice: Clinical & Ops Lead

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist; Winston-Salem (NC); On-site; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist seeks an Area Director of Advanced Practice-SL to lead a defined specialty across multiple sites within a geographic Area. You will drive quality, utilization, and workforce productivity, partnering with area and divisional leadership to translate strategy into local action.

The role focuses on governance, performance analytics, recruitment, onboarding, retention, and succession planning for APPs, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities and regional market

Qualifications

• APRN: Master’s Degree required; Doctorate of Nursing Practice preferred.
• Physician Assistant: Master’s Degree required. Clinical or Leadership Doctorate preferred.

Responsibilities

• Leads specialty clinical and operational performance across Area sites/venues (access, quality, utilization, productivity, experience).
• Uses dashboards and analytic thinking to identify trends/variation and drive sustained improvement.
• Leads and develops site-based/assistant APP leaders; supports engagement, retention, and succession planning, in partnership with HR.

Skills

Area leadership

Dashboards

Data-driven

Influence without authority

Education

APRN: Master’s Degree

Physician Assistant: Master’s Degree

Job description

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist seeks an Area Director of Advanced Practice-SL to lead a defined specialty across multiple sites within a geographic Area. You will drive quality, utilization, and workforce productivity, partnering with area and divisional leadership to translate strategy into local action.

The role focuses on governance, performance analytics, recruitment, onboarding, retention, and succession planning for APPs, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities and regional market