Chief Nursing Officer HRC-184

Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital; Hollister (CA); On-site; USD 330,000 - 345,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

457(b)

401(a) matching

Employee assistance program

Health insurance

Life insurance

Paid time off

Vision insurance

Job summary

Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital is seeking a Chief Nursing Officer to lead nursing and ancillary services, ensuring safe, high-quality patient care and operational excellence. The role requires strategic vision, strong governance, and collaboration across medical staff and management to advance the hospital’s mission and performance improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities include developing budgets, regulatory compliance, staff development, and fostering a culture of professionalism and

Qualifications

• Demonstrates leadership and management principles.
• Active listening and respectful communication with staff.
• Ability to build relationships across departments and with medical staff.
• Strong organizational and budgeting awareness.
• Commitment to professional development and quality patient care.

Responsibilities

• Develops and implements hospital mission, goals and objectives.
• Promotes participative management with staff and physicians.
• Acts as a role model for professionalism and collaboration.
• Manages personnel policies and ensures staff satisfaction and rights.
• Participates in collective bargaining and resolves staff complaints.
• Develops and evaluates patient care outcomes with nurse managers and physicians.
• Addresses complaints promptly and constructively.
• Evaluates staff contributions to quality outcomes.
• Prioritizes and organizes workload to meet deadlines.
• Maintains professional development and participates in relevant activities.
• Ensures safe, cost-effective and quality patient care within improvement guidelines.
• Collaborates on hospital-wide quality monitoring and improvement.
• Analyzes data to identify issues and drive improvements.
• Ensures regulatory and licensing compliance.
• Manages budgets with CFO and tracks variances.

Skills

Leadership

Active listening

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Collaboration

Organizational skills

Problem solving

Staff development

Budget awareness

Education

Master’s Degree in Nursing

Healthcare Administration (MHA)

Job description

Under minimum supervision, the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) has twenty-four (24) hour accountability and responsibility for planning, organizing, developing, directing,coordinating,andevaluatingnursingandancillaryservicesthroughoutthe organization.Such services include clinical practice, quality patient care, fiscal accountability/productivity,humanresourcesmanagement,regulatorycompliance, leadership, staff development, and professionalism.Promotes interdisciplinary collaboration with other departments and the medical staff to facilitate positive patient care outcomes and a desirable work environment for employees.Responsible for identifying and implementing new business opportunities to increase volume in clinical and ancillary departments.Participates with administration,medicalstaff, andother clinicalstaff indevelopingthe Hospital’s mission,goals,strategicdirection,andfinancialplans. Provestobean excellent collaboratorwithinalllevelsofthe organization.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Participates with leaders from management, medical staff and clinical and support departments in the development and implementation of the Hospital’s mission, goals, and objectives
• Promotes participative management with staff, physicians and support personnel to encourage feedback, active involvement in nursing services and patient care decision-making
• Serves as a role model for professionalism through risk-taking, collaborative relationships, and networking with colleagues, problem solving and marketing self, staff and Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital
• Conducts all personnel activities in accordance with hospital policies and procedures and collective bargaining agreements; ensures that personnel policies allow for jobs satisfaction, human rights and staff growth and development
• Actively participates in collective bargaining negotiations and resolution of staff complaints.
• Develops, implements and evaluates patient care outcomes in collaboration with nurse manager committee and physicians and places accountability on managers and staff to assure attainment of positive patient care outcomes
• Provides timely follow up on patient, physician and staff complaints in a constructive, non-punitive manner; responds to problems or concerns with sensitivity and appropriate action involving key nursing, medical staff, quality and/or risk management staff, as appropriate
• Utilizes formal and informal methods to evaluate and recognize staff contribution to quality patient outcomes, nursing, and ancillary services and the Hospital
• Accomplishes objectives and assignments within prescribed periods by prioritizing and organizing workload
• Continually evaluates own administrative and educationskills and updates as necessary; participates in professional organization and activities
• Ensure the delivery of safe, competent, cost effective and quality patient care by planning, organizing, directing, and evaluating service activities within the framework of performance improvement guidelines
• Conducts evaluative rounds to assure visibility, maintain a working knowledge of unit/staff activity, assure compliance with the Patient Bill of Rights, serve as both a Patient and Nursing Advocate, collaborate with physicians, and support services personnel
• Collaborates with leaders from management, medical staff, nursing and clinical areas in planning, promoting and conducting hospital-wide quality monitoring and improvement activities
• Analyzes data to determine issues and areas for improvement and initiates change, with staff input and participation to ensure compliance with changes
• Ensures that nursing and ancillary services are in continuous compliance with TJC, Title22, OSHA, safety and other regulatory and licensing standards
• Ensures that the quality of patient care provided by members of the nursing and clinical services staff is continually evaluated in accordance with the nursing and hospital performance improvement plans
• In collaboration with directors, prepares and monitors departmental budgets (FTEs, operating expenses and capital) to accomplish fiscal objectives; develops systems to monitor budgets on an on-going basis and establishes mechanisms to evaluate, track and report variances; implements changes, as necessary, to bring department into compliance with budget goals
• Maintains an awareness of trends/developments in health care systems to assure a competitive edge; markets new programs and technologies, which appeal to physicians, managed care organizations and patients and support the Hospital’s strategic goals
• Collaborates with CFO to assess reimbursement for new and ongoing programs and services; ensures compliance with federal and state fraud and abuse laws
• Conducts and documents routine management staff meetings to assure the timely communication of information, obtain feedback and assure progress toward department and Hospital goals attainment
• Completes performance appraisals within required period; ensures all staff have objective, measurable and time-limited goals upon which performance is measured annually
• In collaboration with Human Resources, implements and evaluates recruitment and retention efforts for nursing and clinical services
• Maintains confidentiality of all patient and hospital-related communications and documents

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Demonstrates sound management and leadership principles in all interactions
• Demonstrates active listening skills and treats all contacts with dignity and respect
• Communicates a positive and caring attitude toward departmental staff, peers, patients, physicians and other contacts
• Establishes and maintains effective relationships and open communications with key personnel
• Inspires enthusiasm and commitment in others by translating the goals and objectives of nursing and ancillary services into day-to-day operations
• Strong interpersonal skills with nursing, medical and other clinical staff
• Knowledge of and can demonstrate use of various educational, clinical, fiscal and management theories
• Community-focused leader
• Comfortable presenting information and data to teams and in front of medical staff and governing Boards
• Ability to build trust and confidence among various levels of the organization
• Excellent organizational skills with the ability to handle multiple projects at once
• Demonstrated ability to work in fast-paced, dynamic environment
• The physical ability and perception acuity, (e.g., visual, hearing) to satisfactorily perform all functions

Education and Experience:

• Master’s Degree in Nursing (MSN), Healthcare Administration (MHA), or related healthcare field
• 7 years of experience in complex community hospital settings in similar leadership positions
• Experience with developing and implementing clinical education programs

Job Type: Full-time, Days

Pay: $330K- $345K/annually

• 457(b)
• 401(a) matching
• Employee assistance program
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

All job offers are contingent upon the successful completion of a background check, physical exam, drug test, and verification of education qualifications and credentials.

San Benito Health Care District is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with applicable law, we prohibit discrimination and harassment against employees, applicants for employment, individuals providing services in the workplace pursuant to a contract, and volunteers based on their actual or perceived: race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status (including registered domestic partnership status), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), gender (including gender identity and expression), age (40 and over), sexual orientation, status, military and veteran status and any other consideration protected by federal, state or local law (sometimes referred to, collectively, as “protected characteristics”).