System Director, Perioperative Services

Tom Trese Networking LLC; Town of Ithaca (NY); On-site; USD 155,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent benefits package

Job summary

Healthcare Organization in Ithaca, NY seeks a Director of Perioperative Services to provide system-level operational, financial, clinical, and administrative leadership across its perioperative portfolio. The role oversees ORs, pre/postoperative care, testing, scheduling, endoscopy, and sterile processing to improve patient safety, satisfaction, throughput, quality, and financial results.

The successful candidate will drive staffing models, policies, and performance metrics, lead budgeting

Qualifications

• BSN is required.
• 3+ years of surgical-services leadership experience.
• Strong fiscal-management and analytical capabilities.
• Ability to work effectively in a matrixed organizational structure.

Responsibilities

• Provide system-level leadership for perioperative services.
• Direct the overall daily operations of perioperative departments.
• Oversee operating room, preoperative and postoperative care, preadmission testing, OR scheduling, endoscopy, and sterile processing functions.
• Ensure compliance with Joint Commission, local, state, and federal regulations and accreditation requirements.
• Establish and implement short- and long-term operational goals, policies, and procedures.
• Monitor operational effectiveness and implement improvements as needed.
• Develop an organizational structure and staffing model capable of meeting operational and clinical objectives.
• Provide administrative leadership and solutions to surgical-services and executive leadership teams.
• Foster strong collaboration between clinical departments and medical staff leadership.
• Coordinate resources across the organization to achieve operational and financial objectives.
• Improve access, throughput, efficiency, patient experience, and financial performance.
• Establish performance targets and metrics for efficiency, patient satisfaction, service levels, and quality.
• Develop management reports analyzing capacity, staffing ratios, utilization, quality, coding, scheduling, and other critical operational data.
• Develop and implement policies and standardized workflows.
• Partner with nursing, finance, information services, and other departments to optimize centralized services and information flow.
• Maintain 24/7 accountability for clinical and building services.
• Lead recruitment, retention, performance management, and professional development.
• Coach and mentor managers and emerging leaders.
• Monitor quality outcomes and develop performance‑improvement plans.
• Participate in development and management of annual operating and capital budgets.
• Conduct cost and productivity analyses and make fiscally responsible recommendations.
• Serve as a leadership representative during regulatory reviews.
• Identify and implement best practices to improve efficiency, throughput, quality, and patient outcomes.
• Re‑engineer processes and develop strategies to improve surgical operations.
• Build consensus across a complex, matrixed healthcare organization.
• Support strategic growth and operational initiatives for perioperative services.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic planning

Staff development

Communication

Education

BSN

Master's degree preferred

Job description

Healthcare Organization in Ithaca, NY seeks a Director of Perioperative Services to provide system-level operational, financial, clinical, and administrative leadership across its perioperative portfolio. The role oversees ORs, pre/postoperative care, testing, scheduling, endoscopy, and sterile processing to improve patient safety, satisfaction, throughput, quality, and financial results.

The successful candidate will drive staffing models, policies, and performance metrics, lead budgeting