Chief Nursing Officer

Catholic Health Initiatives; Pasadena (TX); On-site; USD 95,000 - 134,000; Full time

Job summary

St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center seeks a Chief Nursing Officer to define and execute the strategic vision for patient care across the system, ensuring high-quality, compassionate delivery. This executive role drives operational excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.

You will mentor senior leaders, set system-level patient safety and compliance, and optimize workflows for superior outcomes, representing patient care at the executive level and driving key initiatives.

Qualifications

• Active RN license in state of employment or compact license.
• Master’s Degree in Nursing (or Bachelor’s in Nursing with Master’s in a related field such as MHA, MBA, or MS).

Responsibilities

• Participates in hospital decision-making with leaders to develop strategic plans, budgets, and policies.
• Leads nursing leadership to align with mission and strategic plan.
• Mentors and develops managers and staff for leadership roles.
• Directs patient care teams as leader and change agent.
• Implements effective communication channels for staff input and concerns.
• Forges positive working relationships with physicians and other departments.

Skills

RN license

Nursing leadership

Education

Master’s in Nursing

Alternative: Bachelor’s in Nursing + Master’s in related field

Job description

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Chief Nursing Officer, you will define and execute the strategic vision for patient care system-wide, ensuring exceptional, high-quality, and compassionate care delivery. This executive role drives operational excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Every day you will strategically direct patient care units and services, fostering clinical excellence. Responsibilities include mentoring senior leaders, setting system-level patient safety and compliance, and optimizing workflows for superior outcomes. You'll represent patient care at the executive level, driving key initiatives.

To succeed, you need exceptional executive leadership, visionary strategic management, and profound clinical expertise. You must influence a culture of excellence, drive transformative improvement, and deliver organizational patient care goals, with a proven history of leading complex clinical teams and shaping change effectively.

• Participates in hospital's decision‐making processes by collaborating with leaders from the governing body, health system management, hospital leadership council, medical staff and clinical areas in developing strategic plans, budgets, resource allocation, operational plans and policies.

• Leads nursing leadership in the development of a nursing mission, vision, philosophy, strategic plan congruent with the hospital's mission, vision, and strategic plan.

• Mentors and Develops managers and staff to assume leadership roles both formally and informally, via role modeling and facilitating staff participation in a shared leadership structure.

• Directs patient care team effectively as team leader and change agent.

• Develops and Implements effective communication channels to provide information to all staff members; provide the forum for staff to verbalize concerns, issues and ideas in a non‐threatening environment.

• Develops and continually enhances a positive working relationship and the ability to problem solve with other members of the patient care delivery team including physicians and other departments.

Job Requirements

Required

• Registered Nurse (RN) active license in the state of employment or compact license

• Master’s Degree in Nursing; If Master’s Degree is not in nursing, then must possess a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing and Masters in a related field (M.H.A., M.B.A., or M.S.)

• Ten years of healthcare experience

• 5 years of leadership experience in nursing

Where You'll Work

St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center provides inpatient and outpatient medical and surgical services to residents of Pasadena, Deer Park, La Porte, Baytown, and Clear Lake. The facility includes 53 medical/surgical beds, eight ICU beds and three endoscopy rooms, and offers a range of primary and specialized services—wound care, general surgery, gastroenterology, occupational health, heart and vascular, women’s services, diagnostic imaging, outpatient rehab services, and sleep disorders.

Pay Range

$69.14 - $97.17/hour

We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.