Director of Surgical Suites

B.E. Smith; Springfield (MA); On-site; USD 158,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement benefits

Bonuses

Job summary

Baystate Health seeks a Director of Surgical Suites to provide strategic and operational leadership across Baystate Medical Center and Chestnut Surgery Center, overseeing 36 operating rooms and ensuring safe, efficient, high-quality surgical care.

The role drives quality, safety, and operational improvements, leads surgical services leaders, and partners with surgeons, anesthesia teams, and hospital leadership to advance patient safety, regulatory readiness, and technology modernization,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in nursing is required.
• Master's degree is preferred.
• Minimum of three years in surgical services and/or OR nursing.
• Minimum of three years of leadership/supervisory experience is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational leadership across Baystate Medical Center and Chestnut Surgery Center overseeing 36 operating rooms while ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality surgical care.
• Drive quality, safety, and operational improvement initiatives across Surgical Services, leveraging data, metrics, and best practices.
• Oversee daily surgical operations, staffing, workforce planning, resource utilization, equipment, and budgets with efficient patient flow.
• Lead, mentor, and develop surgical services leaders and staff, fostering collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Build strong relationships with surgeons, anesthesia teams, medical staff, and hospital leadership as a trusted partner.

Skills

Leadership experience

Strategic leadership

Surgical services

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Bachelor’s degree in nursing

Master’s degree (preferred)

Tools

Oracle platform

Job description

Join Western Massachusetts' largest integrated healthcare system, Baystate Health, as the new Director of Surgical Suites!

The Position

• The Director of Surgical Suites will provide strategic and operational leadership across Baystate Medical Center and Chestnut Surgery Center overseeing 36 operating rooms while ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality surgical care.
• This leader will drive quality, safety, and operational improvement initiatives across Surgical Services, leveraging data, metrics, and best practices to identify opportunities, improve efficiencies, and, implement sustainable improvements.
• The Director will oversee daily surgical operations, staffing, workforce planning, resource utilization, equipment, and departmental budgets while ensuring efficient patient flow and operational excellence across a high-volume perioperative environment.
• Will lead, mentor, and develop surgical services leaders and staff while fostering a highly visible culture of collaboration, engagement and continuous improvement.
• Must build and maintain strong relationships with surgeons, anesthesia teams, medical staff, and hospital leadership, serving as a trusted partner and key liaison between physicians, clinical teams and administration.
• The Director will partner across the organization to advance patient safety, regulatory readiness, evidence-based perioperative practices, and technology modernization, including the transition to a new Oracle platform.
• The ideal candidate will be a Surgical Services leader with experience in a large, complex hospital environment who can effectively lead through change, drive accountability, and build credibility with physicians and staff.
• This leader will have the opportunity to build on a well-established surgical program while advancing quality, safety, workforce stability, employee engagement, physician partnerships, and operational performance across a high-volume, 36-OR environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing is required; master’s degree is preferred.
• A minimum of three years of experience in surgical services and/or OR nursing is required.
• A minimum of three years of leadership/supervisory experience is strongly preferred.

Compensation Details

• The base salary range for this position is $158,371 to $215,342 annually. In addition, a leader may be eligible for other benefits, including but not limited to health insurance coverage, retirement benefits, and bonuses. The total compensation for the finalist selected for this role will be determined based on various factors, including but not limited to scope of role, level of experience, education, accomplishments, internal equity, budget, and subject to Fair Market Value evaluation. The base salary range listed above is a good faith determination of potential base compensation at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future.

The Organization

• With roots dating to the founding of Springfield Hospital in 1883, Baystate Health has been providing high-quality and compassionate healthcare in the Pioneer Valley for more than 140 years.
• Baystate Health (BH) is one of New England's leading and largest integrated healthcare systems, serving more than 800,000 people throughout Western Massachusetts.
• With nearly 13,000 employees, a 1,200-member medical staff, and net patient service revenue of more than $2.3 billion, this dynamic and growing system includes an academic medical center, a children's hospital and three community hospitals. It also offers a large multispecialty group, (Baystate Medical Practices), Baystate Home Health, Baystate Reference Laboratories, and Health New England, a 205,000-member health insurance company.
• As an integrated academic health system, the advancement of knowledge is a major component of their mission. Serving as the regional campus of the UMass Chan Medical School - Baystate, they educate and train current and future caregivers – preparing much of their region’s health care workforce to meet patients’ needs for years to come.

The Community

• Some people rave about sunsets over the desert, while others love the crash of a storm at the seaside. For those lucky enough to live in Western Mass, the community is pretty partial to the peaceful calm of a spring day, or the beauty of a glorious profusion of fall foliage across a bluer-than-blue autumn sky.
• Springfield, Massachusetts, is New England's fourth largest city, perhaps best known as the birthplace of basketball and home of the Basketball Hall of Fame.
• Resting along the banks of the Connecticut River, Springfield, Massachusetts, is located on the southern doorstep of the Pioneer Valley in Western Massachusetts, a region that's loved by outdoorsy types for its natural beauty and abundant hiking trails.
• Home to poets and potters, artists, and authors, Western Mass is renowned for its rich culture. Experience the finest in theater and the performing arts - and view the work of world-renowned painters, sculptors, and book illustrators at some of the finest small museums in the country.
• There are museums, galleries, and gardens focusing on virtually every art form you can imagine and paying tribute to artists and authors like Emily Dickinson, Dr. Seuss, Eric Carle, and Norman Rockwell.
• Springfield is about three hours from New York City, 90 minutes from Boston and roughly 30 minutes from Hartford, Connecticut.