Vice President, Clinical Services

At Children’s Wisconsin, we believe kids deserve the best.

Children’s Wisconsin is a nationally recognized health system dedicated solely to the health and well-being of children. We provide primary care, specialty care, urgent care, emergency care, community health services, foster and adoption services, child and family counseling, child advocacy services and family resource centers. Our reputation draws patients and families from around the country.

We offer a wide variety of rewarding career opportunities and are seeking individuals dedicated to helping us achieve our vision of the healthiest kids in the country. If you want to work for an organization that makes a difference for children and families, and encourages you to be at your best every day, please apply today.

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At Children’s Wisconsin, we change lives. Working here will change yours.

Children’s Wisconsin is seeking an experienced leader to serve as the Vice President, Clinical Services. This executive will be accountable for the overall quality and effective operations of clinical and professional services which includes Pharmacy, Laboratory Services, Clinical Nutrition, Eating Disorder Program, and Enteral Feeding Program, select service lines and related clerical and business support.

Minimum Requirements Include:

• Master’s degree in healthcare administration or related field.
• Requires seven years of progressively responsible leadership experience in patient care and administrative positions.
• Requires an extremely high level of analytical ability to develop plans and creative problem-solving solutions, as well as participate significantly in the development of the entire organization's short- and long-range goals and objectives.
• Requires advanced interpersonal skills necessary to interact in extremely delicate, sensitive and/or complex situations, plus a high degree of judgment, initiative, tact, and persuasiveness to effectively carry out the responsibilities of the position.
• Demonstrated knowledge of current leadership, management, and quality improvement concepts.
• Exhibits guiding behaviors that reflect Children’s values and support our mission and vision.
  
  

Major Responsibilities:

• Participates as a full member of the administrative team; supports all strategic and long-range planning activities of Children’s Wisconsin. Represents major clinical services and service lines in patient-care organizational planning.
• Provides administrative leadership to assigned departments; ensures directors are well informed concerning hospital and system plans; works with directors to establish goals, objectives and plans to support the strategic plan of the organization. Monitors progress toward achievement of these objectives.
• Collaborates with key resources in utilizing information systems to establish data for use in real time data driven decision making, outcomes reporting, and quality improvement.
• Collaborates with VP of Nursing/ACNO to assure programs are in place to recruit and retain quality Patient Care Services staff and leaders with the right mix of staff to meet patient needs.
• Collaborates with key physicians, executives, and strategic planning and management to establish and implement clinical enterprise strategic plans for clinical and diagnostic departments and Service Lines growth. Assures alignment with community need.
• Maintains cooperative working relationships with physicians, departments, and employees to improve coordination of services provided and improve patient experience and provider and employee engagement. Ensures visibility with employees through rounding, chat sessions, etc.
• Partners with foundation team members to grow a robust philanthropic program plan to support services.
• Develops and maintains a variety of external contacts with educational institutions and community and professional organizations to understand market changing activities within areas of direct oversight.
  
  

Children's Wisconsin is an equal opportunity / affirmative action employer. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees. We treat everyone with dignity, respect, and fairness. We do not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status or condition protected by the law.

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