Director - Care Logistics

Piedmont; Fayetteville (GA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Piedmont is seeking a skilled nurse leader for administrative and operational management at Fayette Hospital. The role includes overseeing staffing, quality of care, and compliance with nursing practices.

The ideal candidate will have at least 7 years of nursing experience and 3 years of management experience, supported by a Bachelor's Degree in nursing or healthcare administration. This leadership role emphasizes patient care management and collaboration with a focus on enhancing clinical outcomes.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years of nursing experience required.
• 3 years of progressive management experience required.
• Current RN licensure in Georgia required.

Responsibilities

• Manage staffing and administrative operations.
• Oversee quality of care and clinical outcomes.
• Ensure compliance with nursing and professional practices.
• Collaborate with physicians on care levels and discharges.

Skills

Nursing experience

Management skills

Communication

Data analysis

Change management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in nursing or healthcare administration

Master's Degree in Nursing or Health Care Administration

Job description

Overview

Experience the advantages of real career change! Join Piedmont to move your career in the right direction. Stay for the diverse teams you’ll love, a shared purpose, and schedule flexibility that frees you to live for what matters both in and outside of work. You’ll feel valued, motivated to be your best, and recognized for your contributions to exceptional patient outcomes. Piedmont leaders are in your corner, invested in your success. Our wellness programs and comprehensive total benefits and rewards meet your needs today and help you plan for the future.

Responsibilities

Under the Direction of the Chief Nursing Officer has administrative and operational responsibility for staffing, administrative supervisors, bed control, care link, transport, transfer admissions center, telesitters program, capacity coordinators, order coordinators and any other assigned departments. Responsibilities include but are not limited to management of cost and finance, human resources, operations, quality of care and clinical outcomes, patient, physician and staff satisfaction, change management. Serves as part of the management team and Shared Governance Model focused on promoting the mission, vision and values, of PHC and Nursing Professional Practice, embracing a person‑centered philosophy while promoting patient‑family centered services across the continuum and enhancing value‑driven outcomes.

What You Will Do

• Develops standards of performance, policies and procedures for designated areas of responsibility.
• Organizes the areas of responsibility in accordance with administrative guidelines in order to provide specified nursing and patient care services to meet organizational, regulatory privacy and Medical Staff guidelines.
• Manages, implements and effects change.
• Maintains safe work environment and culture, promotes excellence in customer care.
• Oversees planning, growth and strategic initiatives for assigned departments.
• Functions in an advisory capacity to the Chief Nursing Officer in evaluating proposed changes as they relate to these departments.
• Directs implementation and ensures compliance with standards of nursing and professional practice that promotes optimum health care delivery along the lifecycle continuum.
• Collects and analyzes data, drives performance improvement with metrics associated with the responsibilities and functions in the department.
• Manages bed control, transfer admission center, transport, order coordinators and capacity coordinators to ensure optimal patient throughput. Ensures nursing supervisors are accountable for optimizing patient throughput during off shifts and on weekends.
• Has hospital wide visibility of patient status and discharge plans to maximize throughput.
• Ensures patients are assigned beds based on diagnosis and assigned to the appropriate nursing units to optimize care and reduce lateral transfers. Ensures unit transfers are minimized as appropriate but are facilitated in a timely manner.
• Collaboratively works with physicians regarding level of care (ICU, med/surg, etc.) and discharges.
• Understands patient discharge status and initiates nursing unit prioritization of discharges based off bed needs for incoming patients.
• Works with case management, social work and inpatient units to prioritize patient discharges based off Geometric Mean Length of Stay (GMLOS) and similar indicators.
• Ensures the nursing units and capacity coordinators work collaboratively to facilitate patient placement.
• Balances the goal to discharge patients with the goal to minimize patient readmissions.
• Evaluates need for diversion based on status of organization and regional resources. Collaborates with administrators as needed.

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelors Degree in nursing, healthcare administration, or closely related field Required
• Masters degree in Nursing, Health Care Administration, or related field Preferred

Work Experience

• 7 years of nursing experience and minimum of three years of progressive management experience Required

Licenses and Certifications

• RN - Registered Nurse - Georgia State Licensure and/or NLC/eNCL Multistate Licensure Current Licensure as a Registered Nurse in the State of Georgia Upon Hire Required

Business Unit: Piedmont Fayette Hospital