Clinical Transformation Partner Senior

SSM Health; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Parental Leave

Flexible DailyPay access

Upfront Tuition Coverage

Job summary

SSM Health seeks a senior nurse leader to drive enterprise clinical transformation initiatives, translating strategies into actionable plans and guiding multidisciplinary teams across ministries and care settings.

You will partner with executive and operational leaders to ensure adoption, measure impact, and embed initiatives into frontline operations, focusing on change management and sustainment.

Qualifications

• Graduate of accredited nursing program withRN licensure.
• Experience leading clinical transformation initiatives.
• Strong change management and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Leads enterprise clinical transformation initiatives across the health system.
• Translates strategies into structured implementation plans with milestones.
• Guides multidisciplinary teams through change and operational integration.
• Leads change management activities including stakeholder alignment and adoption reinforcement.
• Oversees deployment of tools and resources to support frontline adoption.
• Identifies risks and mitigation strategies for implementation efforts.
• Supports performance monitoring and opportunities for optimization.

Skills

Clinical transformation

Change management

Implementation leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

RN experience

Education

BSN

RN licensure

Job description

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

MO-SSM Health Mission Hill

Worker Type:

Regular

Job Summary:

Leads the implementation of complex, enterprise‑level clinical strategies and transformation initiatives, ensuring consistent implementation, adoption, and sustainability across the health system. Serves as a senior implementation leader, accountable for translating clinical strategies into implementation plans, guiding multidisciplinary teams through change, and ensuring initiatives are embedded into frontline clinical operations. Partners with executive, clinical, and operational leaders to drive disciplined delivery and measurable impact. Coordinates deployment efforts across the health system to diagnose care breakdowns and implement stopgaps and collaborating with ministry and regional leaders on appropriate resolution handoff.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Leads the implementation of enterprise clinical transformation initiatives, overseeing execution activities to ensure initiatives are deployed consistently, on time, and aligned with system‑wide standards.
• Translates clinical transformation strategies into structured implementation plans, defining milestones, sequencing, dependencies, and adoption requirements across ministries and care settings.
• Serves as a senior implementation partner to clinical and operational leaders, providing guidance on workflow redesign, implementation science, change management, and operational integration of transformation initiatives.
• Leads change management implementation for assigned initiatives, including stakeholder alignment, readiness assessment, communication coordination, and adoption reinforcement.
• Oversees deployment of implementation tools, resources, and methodologies to support frontline adoption and sustainment of clinical transformation efforts.
• Identifies implementation risks, adoption barriers, and variation in performance; proactively escalates issues and recommends mitigation strategies to leadership.
• Supports performance monitoring related to implemented initiatives by partnering with analytics and operational teams to assess adoption, effectiveness, and opportunities for optimization.
• Acts as an internal consultant and mentor staff, providing coaching on implementation discipline, problem‑solving, and implementation rigor.
• Contributes to the continuous refinement of implementation playbooks, standard methodologies, and best practices.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

• Graduate of accredited school of nursing, and BA/BSN or equivalent years of experience and education

EXPERIENCE

• Five years’ RN experience

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

State of Work Location: Illinois

• Registered Professional Nurse (RN) - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR)

State of Work Location: Missouri

• Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State
• Or
• Registered Nurse (RN) - Missouri Division of Professional Registration

State of Work Location: Oklahoma

• Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State
• Or
• Registered Nurse (RN) - Oklahoma Board of Nursing (OBN)

State of Work Location: Wisconsin

• Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State
• Or
• Registered Nurse (RN) - Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services

Work Shift:

Day Shift (United States of America)

Job Type:

Employee

Department:

8726100033 Clinical Transformation Office

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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