Clinical Director, Float Pool

Inova Health System; Fairfax (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Inova Health System in Fairfax, Virginia is seeking a Director Clinical Inpatient Unit to oversee unit performance and implement effective strategies. The role includes managing the budget, liaising with stakeholders, and ensuring optimal patient care.

The ideal candidate must have a Bachelor's Degree in Nursing, leadership experience, and certifications in relevant areas. Inova offers professional development and is committed to supporting its diverse team.

Qualifications

• 1 year of leadership experience in nursing.
• 2 years of acute care nursing experience.
• Certification in Basic Life Support and Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support required.

Responsibilities

• Oversee unit performance and manage departmental budget.
• Ensure compliance with physician satisfaction standards.
• Monitor patient/physician satisfaction and implement improvements.

Skills

Leadership experience

Acute care nursing experience

Workforce planning

Labor management

Budget management

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing

Job description

The Director Clinical Inpatient Unit oversees assigned unit to ensure it is performing effectively, which may include but not limited to, preparing and implementing business strategy to achieve the organization’s goals, ensuring legal compliance, communicating and collaborating with stakeholders, managing employment decisions and contributions of supporting team members, and managing departmental budget and fiscal success. Serves as a primary liaison and information resource for assigned unit. Oversees the provision of therapeutic care in a holistic and evidence-based environment, which produces excellent patient care with optimal patient outcomes.

Job Responsibilities

• Serves as a physician liaison and primary information resource/contact for the unit. Ensures compliance with the unit plan for physician satisfaction.
• Maintains and monitors budgetary standards and utilizes resources effectively and appropriately.

Monitors patient/physician satisfaction and seeks ways to improve by ensuring continuous implementation of evidence-based practices to include, but not limited to, discharge phone calls, leadership rounding (patients, physicians and internal customers), AIDET and HML conversations.

• Certification - Basic Life Support upon start; Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support upon start required for Critical Care and Procedural areas, PALS upon start for Pediatric Units, and NRP upon start required for perinatal units
• Licensure - Licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia as a Registered Nurse.
• Experience - 1 year of leadership experience and 2 years of acute care nursing experience, leadership experience may include RN Unit Supervisor Role, dedicated charge nurse or Assistant Nurse Manager or equivalent role
• Education - Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing

Preferred Requirements

• Prior experience managing or supervising a hospital float pool, staffing office, or centralized staffing operations.
• Demonstrated expertise in workforce planning, staffing optimization, and labor management.

About Us

We are Inova, Northern Virginia’s leading nonprofit healthcare provider. Every day, our 26,000+ team members provide world‑class healthcare to the communities we serve. Our people are the reason we’re a national leader in healthcare safety, quality and patient experience. And from best‑in‑class facilities to professional development opportunities, we support them at every step. At Inova, we’re constantly striving to be ever better — to shape a more compassionate future for healthcare.

Inova Health System is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, pregnancy (including childbirth, pregnancy‑related conditions and lactation), race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristics protected by law.