Senior Director, Surgical Services

Tucson Medical Center; Tucson (AZ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

TMC HealthCare in Tucson, AZ seeks a strategic leader to oversee perioperative and surgical services, guiding managers to deliver safe, efficient patient care, strong workforce performance, and regulatory compliance.

You will supervise CSPD and Surgical Support Services across multiple operating suites, partner with surgeons, anesthesia, nursing, and facilities to improve throughput, capacity, and patient experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing, healthcare administration, business administration, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• Progressively responsible healthcare leadership experience, including experience leading or supporting managers and multidisciplinary teams.
• Not specified; requires HR and clinical leadership confirmation.
• Demonstrated knowledge of hospital operations, workforce management, quality improvement, and regulatory requirements.
• Ability to analyze operational data and translate findings into measurable improvement.
• Skill in strategic and systems thinking, change management, and continuous improvement.
• Skill in manager coaching, leadership development, accountability, cross-functional collaboration, and conflict resolution.
• Skill in financial and resource stewardship and data-driven decision making.

Responsibilities

• Provides leadership, coaching, direction, and performance accountability to assigned managers and departmental leaders.
• Establishes operational goals, performance measures, communication expectations, and consistent leadership practices across assigned services.
• Conducts leadership rounding and regular manager reviews of staffing, safety, quality, employee relations, patient flow, and operational priorities.
• Resolves or escalates complex operational, physician, interdisciplinary, workforce, and resource issues beyond the manager level.
• Partners with Human Resources on manager development, succession planning, recruitment, retention, employee relations, and performance concerns.
• Evaluates staffing, FTE requirements, productivity, acuity, volume, and workload to support effective workforce and contingency planning.
• Oversees departmental budgets, labor utilization, premium labor, supplies, equipment needs, and resource allocation.
• Contributes to business cases, capital planning, strategic projects, and resource recommendations consistent with organizational priorities.
• Analyzes operational, financial, workforce, quality, safety, patient-experience, and throughput measures to identify and implement improvements.
• Leads multidisciplinary initiatives to improve access, capacity utilization, patient flow, efficiency, quality, and service delivery.
• Promotes compliance with applicable accreditation, regulatory, infection prevention, patient safety, and organizational standards.
• Represents assigned services on committees and organizational initiatives, and assumes delegated responsibilities in the Director’s absence.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Strategic thinking

Change management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in nursing, healthcare administration, business administration, or related field

Master’s degree preferred

Job description

TMC HealthCare in Tucson, AZ seeks a strategic leader to oversee perioperative and surgical services, guiding managers to deliver safe, efficient patient care, strong workforce performance, and regulatory compliance.

You will supervise CSPD and Surgical Support Services across multiple operating suites, partner with surgeons, anesthesia, nursing, and facilities to improve throughput, capacity, and patient experience.