What are the responsibilities and job description for the Perioperative Services Nursing Director position at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Sunnyvale?
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Sunnyvale is an acute care hospital serving the communities in and around Sunnyvale, Texas. We strive to make the lives of our patients and their families better at every interaction. Our Team Members live out this passion in their daily roles as we support their career and personal goals.
We are located just minutes east of Dallas and south of Garland / Rowlett on Hwy 80 at Collins Road in Sunnyvale. Many team members live in Forney, Mesquite, Garland, Balch Springs, and Rockwall areas with a short commute.
Our work environment includes:
- Modern Office Setting
- On-Site Cafe' and Coffee Bar (Payroll Deduction available)
- Collaborative Teams
- Team Member engagement opportunities
- Competitive pay
- Benefits provided based on your work assignment (Full-time, Part-time, or PRN)
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Sunnyvale is seeking a Perioperative Services Director.
The Director of Perioperative Services is accountable for the clinical, operational, and fiscal performance of all designated units. This position oversees the execution of short and long term strategies to support organizational goals pertinent to the Baylor Scott & White- Sunnyvale campus, establishes and ensures compliance with standards of clinical care, and maintains accountability for staffing, quality, safety, service and clinical excellence throughout these areas. Other responsibilities include assisting Clinical Managers with Evidence Based Leadership, supporting nursing professional practice, and responding to any patient or physician’s complaints in an administrative leadership role.
What your day will look like:
- Typically provides leadership to managers and /or frontline level professional staff.
- Typically, accountable for the performance and results of multiple teams performing related activities
- Develops long-term plans and strategies for area of defined responsibility aligned with established functional strategies, and works with subordinate managers to operationalize and execute the strategy
- Communicates priorities and expectations, monitors progress, and provides direction and course corrections
- Makes decisions guided by resource availability and functional objectives.
- Analyzes key trends and input from individuals in the team to make meaningful changes that directly and significantly affect short-term results
- Establishes budgets and holds self and subordinate managers accountable for managing to achieve expected financial results
- Works on cross functional teams to develop and implement solutions that have a broad impact on the organization's operations and processes
- Attend/facilitate unit and house-wide meetings
- Physician/staff problem resolution
- Respond to e-mail/voicemail requests/text communications
- Respond to patient/family satisfaction and/or grievances
- Respond to physician disruptive behavior
- Engage in peer/physician/staff relationship building
- Oversight of Performance Improvement Facilitation
- Creation, review, revision, of policies and procedures
- Regulatory readiness preparations
- Review, analyze, justify financial performance.
- Coach leadership team on utilization/resource management
- Vendor representative relations as appropriate.
- Mentoring/skill coaching for Pl, budget, personnel management, change initiatives, etc. for team
- Participation in educational development and professional organization for self/encouragement of staff participation
- Oversight of staff educational programs
- Encouragement of evidence based research/practice
- Shared governance/Evidence Based Leadership communication
- Workgroup facilitation/collaboration to meet unit goals
- Performance appraisals of direct reports
Success Factors:
- Current Registered Nurse licensure in the State of Texas.
- BSN required, MSN preferred.
- Current AHA BLS certification.
- At least 5 years of nursing management experience.
- At least 2 years of experience in surgical nursing.
- Able to communicate effectively in English, both verbally and in writing.
- Additional languages desirable.
- Basic computer knowledge.
