VP Patient Care Services

CHI; Dickinson (ND); On-site; USD 91,000 - 128,000; Full time

Job summary

CHI St. Alexius Health Dickinson, part of CommonSpirit Health, seeks a VP, Patient Care Services to define and execute the strategic vision for patient care system-wide.

This executive role directs patient care units, mentors senior leaders, and ensures safety, quality, and compliance while advancing operational excellence.

Candidates bring substantial executive nursing leadership, change management experience, and a proven record of transforming care delivery across complex clinical teams.

Qualifications

• Masters or post-graduate degree required.
• Minimum 7 years of clinical leadership experience or 5 years in executive roles.
• Registered Nurse license in North Dakota upon hire.
• Basic Life Support (CPR) certification required upon hire.
• Preferred: Critical Access leadership experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide system-wide strategic direction for patient care and safety.
• Mentor senior leaders and align clinical priorities with organizational goals.
• Collaborate with executives to optimize quality, safety, and patient experience.
• Manage budget and ensure staffing aligns with productivity and compliance.

Skills

Executive leadership

Strategic management

Education

Masters or post-graduate degree

Job description

Job Summary And Responsibilities

As our VP, Patient Care Services, you will define and execute the strategic vision for patient care system-wide, ensuring exceptional, high-quality, and compassionate care delivery. This executive role drives operational excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Every day you will strategically direct patient care units and services, fostering clinical excellence. Responsibilities include mentoring senior leaders, setting system-level patient safety and compliance, and optimizing work-flows for superior outcomes. You'll represent patient care at the executive level, driving key initiatives.

To succeed, you need exceptional executive leadership, visionary strategic management, and profound clinical expertise. You must influence a culture of excellence, drive trans-formative improvement, and deliver organizational patient care goals, with a proven history of leading complex clinical teams and shaping change effectively.

• Reviews cost, quality, safety, utilization, and value data regularly with nursing leaders, clinical leaders, and health system executives; responsible for both the dissemination of this information and the development of interventions needed to improve value;
• Leads change activities in accordance with CommonSpirit change models;
• Develop, align, and mobilize clinical leaders to successfully achieve clinical, operational, and strategic priorities for the organization;
• Will serve as organizational and community role model for ethical management behavior and promote an awareness and understanding of ethical and moral principles that are consistent with the mission, vision, and values’
• Collaborates with other leaders to optimize quality, safety, and patient experience for the organization;
• Manage budget and fiscal responsibility to ensure positive and consistent alignment of balancing patient needs, outcomes, and compliance and safety with productivity guidelines;

Job Requirements

Required

• Masters Other or POST GRADUATE DEGREE
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in the discipline or 5 years of leadership experience;
• Registered Nurse: ND, upon hire
• Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire

Preferred

• Critical Access leadership experience

Where You'll Work

CHI St. Alexius Health Dickinson, part of CommonSpirit Heath, a national nonprofit health system based in Englewood, Colorado. The faith-based system operates in 18 states and includes 103 hospitals. Additional services offered within the system are: long-term care, assisted and residential living communities, community health services organizations, home health agencies, and numerous outpatient facilities.

Pay Range

$66.26 - $92.76 /hour