Senior Nurse Director, Hospital - Perioperative Services

Kaiser Permanente Northwest; Oregon; On-site; USD 229,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

Kaiser Permanente Northwest is seeking a Director/Senior Director to lead hospital administration and care delivery across Sunnyside Medical Center. The role drives strategic planning, resource forecasting, and enterprise-wide safety and quality initiatives.

You will oversee multiple units, coordinate with physicians and external partners, and ensure compliance with Nursing Practice Act and regulatory standards while guiding a highly skilled team to deliver high-quality patient care 24/7.

Qualifications

• Minimum eight (8) years of experience in patient care delivery.
• BSN and 9+ years in business operations or clinical health care.
• Minimum four (4) years of experience managing operational or project budgets.
• Minimum four (4) years of leadership experience with direct reports.
• Basic Life Support required at hire.
• Registered Nurse License (Oregon) required at hire.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership to optimize patient care delivery and safety across units.
• Lead multi-department planning and resource forecasting to meet organizational goals.
• Oversee hospital administrative functions to support patient care and compliance.
• Ensure accountability for quality and safety, and maintain regulatory standards across the enterprise.
• Direct care delivery operations in a 24/7 environment, coordinating across programs and service lines.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Strategic Thinking

Problem Solving

Team Building

Decision Making

Attention to Detail

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Influencing Others

Ambiguity/Uncertainty Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Nursing (BSN)

Master's degree in Nursing (MSN)

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Job Summary

In addition to the responsibilities below, this position is also responsible for proactively establishing best practice models; performing strategic planning and designing long-term patient care delivery systems and practice standards in several locations; leading the investigation of patient/family/member concerns regarding patient care and services; forming strategic partnerships with physicians, outside healthcare providers, and other health care team members to achieve optimal and safe patient care across the continuum; forecasting resource needs in clinical areas to ensure appropriate assignment and utilization; evaluating the use and maintenance of equipment, supplies and medications; assuming accountability for patient and employee safety; maintaining clinical expertise, providing clinical supervision, competency and licensing necessary to fulfill job responsibilities and to direct the provision of care in the unit; delegating tasks and duties that are aligned to scope of practice; and performing clinical duties as required. Collaborates with Nursing Clinical Practice to ensure assistants and staff provide the highest quality of care and are in compliance with the Nursing Practice Act, The Joint Commission, federal, state, and local requirements.

• Builds organizational capacity and prepares high potentials for growth opportunities and advancement; builds collaborative networks inside and outside the organization for self and others. Provides framework for soliciting and acting on performance feedback; drives collaboration to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to foster performance improvement. Models and drives continuous learning and oversees the recruitment, selection, and development of talent; stays current with industry trends, benchmarks, and best practices; ensures performance management guidelines and expectations to achieve business needs. Acts as a thought leader on industry trends, benchmarks, and best practices; shares best practices within and across teams to drive improvement. Motivates and empowers teams; maintains a highly skilled and engaged workforce by aligning cross-functional resource plans with business objectives. Provides guidance when difficult decisions need to be made; creates opportunities for expanded scope of decision making and impact across teams.
• Oversees the operation of multiple units and/or departments by identifying member and operational needs; ensures the management of work assignment allocation and completion; translates business strategy into actionable business requirements; ensures products and/or services meet member requirements and expectations while aligning with organizational strategies. Engages strategic, cross-functional business units to champion and drive support for business plans and priorities; assumes responsibility for decision making; sets standards, measures progress, and ensures resolution of escalated issues. Sets and communicates goals and objectives; analyzes resources, costs, and forecasts and incorporates them into business plans; obtains and distributes resources. Anticipates and removes obstacles that impact performance; addresses performance gaps and implements contingency plans accordingly; ensures teams accomplish business objectives; serves as a subject-matter expert and trusted source to executive leadership; provides influence and consultation in the development of the larger organizational or business strategy.
• Directs hospital administrative functions to support patient care by: anticipating business issues and barriers and providing recommendations while overseeing the development of strategies with stakeholders to identify factors contributing to business value; aligning workflow and performance targets across departments and across KP, and assuming accountability for department performance targets; optimizing and prioritizing operational initiatives and strategies related to departmental or program goals, objectives, and/or outcomes; partnering with internal and external stakeholders to identify areas of improvement and alleviate potential barriers to the implementation of cross-functional programs including workplace and patient safety, human resources (e.g., recruitment, selection, promoting active recruitment, performance evaluation and management), labor relations, training and development, and risk management issues; forecasting and establishing long-term survey readiness activities including mock rounds and mitigating issues to maintain compliance and regulatory standards, and defining standards for audit documentation, information, and reports; and ensuring short and long-range financial goals are met by establishing and controlling the department budget, and ensuring overall financial performance meets expectations.
• Manages care delivery operations and programs within a twenty-four-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week operational environment by: leveraging enterprise interdependencies across multiple programs and/or program work streams to align key care delivery initiatives across KP; assuming accountability for short- and long-term results and performance while ensuring guideline and regulation alignment; building relationships with key leaders internal and external to KP to develop and implement patient management solutions; forecasting and aligning resources in hospital areas to ensure appropriate assignment and utilization; overseeing multidisciplinary hospital leaders and service lines; planning the long-term strategic goals of emergency preparedness programs; ensuring the enterprises emergency preparedness and recovery plans are up to standards, ensuring managers and staff are trained and understand expectations for during and after an emergency; providing strategic direction to project teams leading initiatives and overseeing implementation, equitable distribution of resources, and delivery on objectives; assuming accountability for teams responsible for the delivery of nursing services and patient care within a twenty-four-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week operational environment in alignment with cost, quality, and clinical and utilization standards; and defining and maintaining oversight and communication at the enterprise level.
• Oversees improvements to operations and technology processes by: forecasting and determining the direction of future strategic projects, providing oversight for multiple internal and external strategic projects designed to remediate issues and improve quality, service, affordability, and/or operating efficiency; using broad trends from analysis across operations processes to identify new practices to optimize the performance of operations system processes and address quality and safety issues; overseeing the development and implementation of strategic plans with the goal of achieving integrated services across the continuum of care in alignment with long-term enterprise-wide goals; and consulting with executive management for the effective integration of performance metrics to monitor the success of strategic improvement projects across the organization.
• Ensures safe, quality, and standardized care delivery within a twenty-four-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week operational environment by: overseeing the development and implementation of strategies to ensure the continuous improvement of the quality and safety of clinical practices, services, and operations for patients and staff; holding departments accountable cross-functionally for maintaining compliance with legal and regulatory requirements (e.g., Nursing Practice Act, The Joint Commission [TJC], federal, state, and local requirements) updated by governmental and regulatory agencies; and creating a long-term vision for systems, processes, and methods to evaluate and improve patient care within assigned department and across the continuum of care.

Essential Responsibilities

• Builds organizational capacity and prepares high potentials for growth opportunities and advancement; builds collaborative networks inside and outside the organization for self and others. Provides framework for soliciting and acting on performance feedback; drives collaboration to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to foster performance improvement. Models and drives continuous learning and oversees the recruitment, selection, and development of talent; stays current with industry trends, benchmarks, and best practices; ensures performance management guidelines and expectations to achieve business needs. Acts as a thought leader on industry trends, benchmarks, and best practices; shares best practices within and across teams to drive improvement. Motivates and empowers teams; maintains a highly skilled and engaged workforce by aligning cross-functional resource plans with business objectives. Provides guidance when difficult decisions need to be made; creates opportunities for expanded scope of decision making and impact across teams.
• Oversees the operation of multiple units and/or departments by identifying member and operational needs; ensures the management of work assignment allocation and completion; translates business strategy into actionable business requirements; ensures products and/or services meet member requirements and expectations while aligning with organizational strategies. Engages strategic, cross-functional business units to champion and drive support for business plans and priorities; assumes responsibility for decision making; sets standards, measures progress, and ensures resolution of escalated issues. Sets and communicates goals and objectives; analyzes resources, costs, and forecasts and incorporates them into business plans; obtains and distributes resources. Anticipates and removes obstacles that impact performance; addresses performance gaps and implements contingency plans accordingly; ensures teams accomplish business objectives; serves as a subject-matter expert and trusted source to executive leadership; provides influence and consultation in the development of the larger organizational or business strategy.
• Directs hospital administrative functions to support patient care by: anticipating business issues and barriers and providing recommendations while overseeing the development of strategies with stakeholders to identify factors contributing to business value; aligning workflow and performance targets across departments and across KP, and assuming accountability for department performance targets; optimizing and prioritizing operational initiatives and strategies related to departmental or program goals, objectives, and/or outcomes; partnering with internal and external stakeholders to identify areas of improvement and alleviate potential barriers to the implementation of cross-functional programs including workplace and patient safety, human resources (e.g., recruitment, selection, promoting active recruitment, performance evaluation and management), labor relations, training and development, and risk management issues; forecasting and establishing long-term survey readiness activities including mock rounds and mitigating issues to maintain compliance and regulatory standards, and defining standards for audit documentation, information, and reports; and ensuring short and long-range financial goals are met by establishing and controlling the department budget, and ensuring overall financial performance meets expectations.
• Manages care delivery operations and programs within a twenty-four-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week operational environment by: leveraging enterprise interdependencies across multiple programs and/or program work streams to align key care delivery initiatives across KP; assuming accountability for short- and long-term results and performance while ensuring guideline and regulation alignment; building relationships with key leaders internal and external to KP to develop and implement patient management solutions; forecasting and aligning resources in hospital areas to ensure appropriate assignment and utilization; overseeing multidisciplinary hospital leaders and service lines; planning the long-term strategic goals of emergency preparedness programs; ensuring the enterprises emergency preparedness and recovery plans are up to standards, ensuring managers and staff are trained and understand expectations for during and after an emergency; providing strategic direction to project teams leading initiatives and overseeing implementation, equitable distribution of resources, and delivery on objectives; assuming accountability for teams responsible for the delivery of nursing services and patient care within a twenty-four-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week operational environment in alignment with cost, quality, and clinical and utilization standards; and defining and maintaining oversight and communication at the enterprise level.
• Oversees improvements to operations and technology processes by: forecasting and determining the direction of future strategic projects, providing oversight for multiple internal and external strategic projects designed to remediate issues and improve quality, service, affordability, and/or operating efficiency; using broad trends from analysis across operations processes to identify new practices to optimize the performance of operations system processes and address quality and safety issues; overseeing the development and implementation of strategic plans with the goal of achieving integrated services across the continuum of care in alignment with long-term enterprise-wide goals; and consulting with executive management for the effective integration of performance metrics to monitor the success of strategic improvement projects across the organization.
• Ensures safe, quality, and standardized care delivery within a twenty-four-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week operational environment by: overseeing the development and implementation of strategies to ensure the continuous improvement of the quality and safety of clinical practices, services, and operations for patients and staff; holding departments accountable cross-functionally for maintaining compliance with legal and regulatory requirements (e.g., Nursing Practice Act, The Joint Commission [TJC], federal, state, and local requirements) updated by governmental and regulatory agencies; and creating a long-term vision for systems, processes, and methods to evaluate and improve patient care within assigned department and across the continuum of care.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Core)

• Ambiguity/Uncertainty Management
• Attention to Detail
• Business Knowledge
• Communication
• Constructive Feedback
• Critical Thinking
• Cross-Group Collaboration
• Decision Making
• Dependability
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Support
• Drives Results
• Facilitation Skills
• Health Care Industry
• Influencing Others
• Integrity
• Leadership
• Learning Agility
• Organizational Savvy
• Problem Solving
• Short- and Long-term Learning & Recall
• Strategic Thinking
• Team Building
• Teamwork
• Topic-Specific Communication

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Functional)

• Emergency Preparedness
• Evidence-Based Medicine Principles
• Nursing Principles
• Patient Safety
• Business Process Improvement
• Change Management
• Compliance Management
• Confidentiality
• Conflict Resolution
• Employee Training
• Financial Acumen
• Health Care Compliance
• Health Care Quality Standards
• Information Systems
• Legal And Regulatory Requirements
• Maintain Files and Records
• Microsoft Office
• Stakeholder Management
• Workforce Planning

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum eight (8) years of experience in patient care delivery.
• Bachelors degree in Nursing (BSN) AND minimum nine (9) years of experience in business operations, clinical health care, or a directly related field.
• Minimum four (4) years of experience managing operational or project budgets.
• Minimum four (4) years of experience in a leadership role with direct reports.
• Basic Life Support required at hire
• Registered Nurse License (Oregon) required at hire

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Nursing (MSN) OR Master's degree in a business, nursing, health care, or directly related field and Bachelor's degree in Nursing (BSN).
• Certified in Executive Nursing Practice (CENP) from the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL).

Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.

Primary Location:

Oregon,Clackamas,Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Center

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Shift:

Day

Workdays:

Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri

Working Hours Start:

08:00 AM

Working Hours End:

05:00 PM

Job Schedule:

Full-time

Job Type:

Standard

Worker Location:

Onsite

Employee Status:

Regular

Employee Group/Union Affiliation:

NUE-NW-01|NUE|Non Union Employee

Job Level:

Director/Senior Director

Department:

Sunnyside Medical Center - Hosp Admin-Chief Oper Officer - 1001

Pay Range:

$229000 - $265100 / year

Travel:

No

Work Setting:

Onsite

Worker location must align with Kaiser Permanente's Authorized States policy.

Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.