Director of Nursing-Ops 16-59499

Ebenezer Ridges Campus; Edina (MN); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Generous PTO policy

Job summary

Ebenezer Ridges Campus is seeking a Nursing Director to oversee operations across multiple patient care areas. This leadership position will drive clinical excellence, ensure compliance, and manage departmental finances. The ideal candidate will possess a strong nursing background, leadership experience, and critical thinking skills to enhance patient care delivery.

The role includes managing operations, developing recruitment strategies, and promoting quality improvement initiatives. A master's degree in nursing or related field, along with current MN RN licensure, is required.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years patient care experience in an acute care setting.
• 3-5 years recent experience in management and leadership.
• Ability to manage multiple project areas effectively.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with medical staff to determine patient care services.
• Oversees mentorship of nursing and clinical staff.
• Ensures compliance with regulatory standards.

Skills

Critical thinking

Excellent verbal and written communication

Leadership in nursing management

Education

Master’s degree in nursing or related field

Current RN Licensure in MN

Job description

Job Description

Fairview Health Services, based in Minneapolis, is a nonprofit, integrated health system providing exceptional health care across the full spectrum of health care services. In partnership with the University of Minnesota, our 22,000-plus employees and 2,500 employed and aligned physicians embrace innovation and new thinking to drive a healthier future through healing, discovery and education.

The Nursing Director position oversees and leads operations of more than one patient care area at Fairview Southdale Hospital. This leader contributes to and executes the vision for promoting clinical excellence and program growth in a highly competitive marketplace. In collaboration with other leaders, ensures that high quality services are provided within professional regulatory and accrediting body standards, and that overall clinical performance of the service line meets or exceeds national best practice benchmarks. Ensures operations function at top levels of efficiency, and exceeds customer expectations. Accountable for viable financial performance of the departments that position has accountability for. Partners with leaders across the continuum of care to achieve organization outcomes. Develops and administers policies and procedures, operating and capital budgets. Responsible to assist the VP of Patient Care Services with planning and management of initiatives and tasks which advance nursing strategic and operational work. May be assigned single or multiple projects having high impact across the system.

Position Characteristics:

Possesses critical thinking skills, drives personal and professional growth, demonstrated experience managing multiple areas; analytical ability sufficient to evaluate data, make judgments and recommendations regarding operations and budgets, design protocols and generate well developed reports. Possesses excellent verbal and written communication skills; Excels at physician and employee relations; Demonstrates a strong propensity for action; Pays careful attention to employee, physician, and customer satisfaction. Possess knowledge of related regulatory agencies and ability to sustain constant readiness of regulatory requirements. Ensures quality of care in accordance with team based and patient/family centered care.

This role is responsible for:

• Collaborates with medical staff leaders in determining needed patient care services.
• Oversees supervision and mentorship of direct care staff, nurse managers, and other clinical leaders engaged in activities for which the Director is responsible, including recruitment, retention, and performance evaluation.
• Identifies future skill sets needed to remain competitive.
• Develops recruitment and retention strategies in conjunction with Human Resources.
• Actively collaborates with other nursing, medical dyad and interdisciplinary leaders to drive department performance.
• Represents service areas on entity and organizational wide committees as requested.
• Manages department finances and mentors staff to meet or exceed budgeted levels of performance. Actively seeks out industry "best standard" benchmarks and applies them to operations.
• Ensures preparation of and management of operations and capital targets to achieve expected performance.
• Completes strategic planning, budget preparation and ongoing budget analysis.
• Fosters an environment that promotes best practice employee engagement levels.
• Interprets and evaluates employee satisfaction/quality of work surveys.
• Creates opportunities for employees to be involved in decision-making.
• Rewards and recognizes exemplary performance.
• Formulates programs to enhance work-life balance in conjunction with Human Resources.
• Advances exceptional patient experience and core concepts of patient and family centered care to achieve targeted performance levels.
• Integrates quality improvement and outcome measurement initiatives into patient care delivery systems.
• Responsible to partner with the other Directors and Managers for ongoing Patient Care Services process improvement.
• Monitors patient care units for quality.
• Develops, implements and approves patient care services specific procedures.
• Advances evidence based practice regarding patient care as well as for management/leadership decision making.
• Advocates for use of documented best practices.
• Teaches and mentors others to routinely utilize evidence based data and research.
• Assures compliance with internal and external regulations, policies and procedures for areas of responsibility.
• Applies government and non-government reimbursement policy to operations to ensure reimbursement for services is appropriate.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in nursing, health care administration, business administration or related field or DNP. If advanced degree is not in nursing, a BSN is also required.
• Current RN Licensure in MN or ability to obtain prior to start date.
• 3-5 years patient care experience in an acute care setting.
• 3-5 years recent experience in management and leadership.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3-10 years’ experience managing a large, complex nursing department(s) in a hospital based setting.
• Academic experience.

Additional Information

EEO/AA Employer/Vet/Disabled

All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to any lawfully protected status.