Chief Operating Officer - St. Louis University Hospital & St. Mary's Hospital

SSM Health; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Chief Operating Officer to lead operational strategies at its St. Louis hospitals. This role involves developing long-term goals, enhancing patient care quality, and fostering a culture of teamwork and engagement among staff. The ideal candidate will have extensive leadership experience and a Master's degree, ensuring the organization meets its mission of delivering exceptional healthcare services. Join a dynamic team dedicated to making a difference in the community and enjoy a comprehensive benefits package that supports your professional growth.

Benefits

Paid Parental Leave

Flexible Payment Options

Upfront Tuition Coverage

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience with 5+ years in leadership roles.
• Master's degree required for this executive position.

Responsibilities

• Lead operational activities and ensure alignment with organizational goals.
• Oversee human resource management and promote employee engagement.
• Develop policies and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.

Skills

Strategic Leadership

Operational Management

Customer Satisfaction

Team Building

Quality Improvement

Education

Master's Degree

Job description

Chief Operating Officer - St. Louis University Hospital & St. Mary's Hospital

It's more than a career, it's a calling.

MO-SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - St. Louis

It's more than a career, it's a calling.

MO-SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - St. Louis

Worker Type:

Regular

Job Highlights:

Named 150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare 2024 - Becker's Healthcare
Named One of the Diversity Leaders 2024 – Modern Healthcare
Named One of America's Greatest Workplaces for Diversity 2024 - Newsweek
Named One of America's Greatest Workplaces for Women 2024 – Newsweek
Named One of America’s Greatest Workplaces for Job Starters 2024 – Newsweek

SSM Health is a Catholic, not-for-profit health system serving the comprehensive health needs of communities across the Midwest through a robust and fully integrated health care delivery system. The organization’s 40,000 team members and more than 13,900+ providers are committed to providing exceptional health care services and revealing God’s healing presence to everyone they serve.

With care delivery sites in Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin, SSM Health includes 23 hospitals, more than 300 physician offices and other outpatient and virtual care services, 12 post-acute facilities, comprehensive home care and hospice services, a pharmacy benefit company, a health insurance company and an accountable care organization. It is one of the largest employers in every community it serves.

This position is located in St. Louis, Missouri and is not remote work eligible.

To request additional information, confidentially submit your interest, or nominate a fellow colleague, please contact:

Angela Jones
Executive Talent Partner
[e-mail]

#LI-Onsite

Job Summary:

Develops short- and long-term operational goals and plans ensuring alignment with broader organization priorities. Utilizes metrics and organization vision to lead and direct operational activities. Challenges assumptions and standards of business to improve overall operational effectiveness and service to organization customers.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Serves as a member of the leadership team providing strategic direction on operational related issues. Works effectively as a team member in a dynamic executive environment in a matrix organization and promotes teamwork within and across the organization by maintaining positive relationships and utilizing effective problem-solving skills.
• Ensures premier customer satisfaction. Implements mechanisms and feedback processes to determine customer satisfaction levels. Ensures engagement and satisfaction of employees, physicians, and leadership to ensure effective implementation of strategic and operational plans. Creates an environment in which effective communication and responsiveness to customer needs are priorities. Provides timely resolution and response to customer complaints, concerns, and suggestions.
• Operationalizes business plans for the ministry. Translates initiatives into action plans at the departmental level with appropriate performance measures. Assumes fiscal responsibility through budgetary planning and implementation. Establishes and monitors process improvement initiatives to achieve value-based outcome metrics. Serves as a role model and mentor to ministry leadership.
• Oversees human resource management for the assigned area creating a culture of employee engagement. Ensures HR policies are administered consistently across function. Organizes operations through appropriate structure and delegation of functions to achieve productivity. Identifies succession planning needs with special emphasis on retaining and recruiting a diverse work force.
• Promotes team building and collaboration. Motivates, encourages, and empowers staff to achieve personal, organizational and team goals. Recognizes accomplishment. Encourages and provides opportunity for staff input and feedback regarding improvement opportunities. Mentors and coaches the leadership team. Regularly informs and updates staff on organizational and industry issues.
• Ensures quality patient care is provided daily. Participates in ongoing continuous quality improvement education and training.
• Develops and implements policies and procedures that address hospital and service line functions. Develops and ensures compliance with confidentiality practices. Maintains knowledge and achieves compliance with federal, state, and local regulatory requirements, licensure, accreditation requirements, record procedures and internal controls.
• Develops and enhances relationships with community, other publics, organizations, and groups that expand the effectiveness of the mission.
• Collaborates support functions of nursing, finance, planning, quality, and human resources to achieve successful outcomes for the hospitals, service lines, network and system.
• Regularly displays and encourages ethical behavior in the areas of business ethics, legal compliance, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, vendor relationships and the reporting of questionable activities.
• Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

• Master's degree

EXPERIENCE

• Ten years' experience, with five years in leadership

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Rare climbing.

REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS

• None

Department:

8050000100 Administration

Work Shift:

Day Shift (United States of America)

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Benefits:

SSM Health values our exceptional employees by offering a comprehensive benefits package to fit their needs.

• Paid Parental Leave : we offer eligible team members one week of paid parental leave for newborns or newly adopted children (pro-rated based on FTE).

• Flexible Payment Options: our voluntary benefit offered through DailyPay offers eligible hourly team members instant access to their earned, unpaid base pay (fees may apply) before payday.

• Upfront Tuition Coverage : we provide upfront tuition coverage through FlexPath Funded for eligible team members.

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SSM Health is an equal opportunity employer. SSM Health does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity,pregnancy, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Click here to learn more.

About the company

SSM Health is a Catholic, not-for-profit United States health care system with 11,000 providers and nearly 39,000 employees in four states, including Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Illinois, and Missouri.