Director House Operations and Virtual Nursing

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Your Role With Us:

The Director of House Operations and Virtual Nursing is responsible for the following functions:

Creates a leadership culture that supports mentoring and shared decision making:

• Establish and maintain an engaged work culture in which front line employees share in decisions and take ownership for results.
• Liaisons with other directors across the continuum to foster a shared vision of nursing and clinical practice.
• Mentors managers and assistant managers to encourage growth and success.
• Follows and encourages principles of Magnet designation.

Creates a culture which fosters quality and safe patient care:

• Continually assesses, evaluates and implements action plans to assure quality of nursing care across the continuum.
• Promotes a professional nursing practice environment reflecting evidence-based nursing practice.
• Maintains collaborative relationship with Medical Staff to assure quality patient care.
• Responds promptly to quality or safety concerns.
• Promotes innovation and creativity to improve quality, safety and patient experience.
• Ensures departmental and unit strategies is aligned in meetings organizational strategies and goals.
• Serves as a Lean leader by coaching Lean methodology to improve house operations, patient flow, patient care processes and patient experience.

Assures customer service goals are achieved:

• Develops and implements continuous improvement to ensure effective patient flow and house operations.
• Establishes customer service goals and tests of change using patient satisfaction data.
• Assures that resources are managed to achieve service line and organizational goals.
• Establishes annual budget based on operating plans, service line action plans, and customer feedback.
• Monitors financial performance to budget; works with managers to develop action plans in response to unanticipated expenses or financial results over budget.
• Demonstrates knowledge and application of financial management principles within clinical operations.

Community Involvement:

Interfaces with the community in a variety of venues to collaborate and support development of Emergency Preparedness Services and access to emergency services in our community. Thesevenues may include, but are not limited to:

• Collaboration with EMS, Fire, etc.
• Work with community partners through Emergency Operations Council such as FEMA and other disaster relief work groups.
• Provide feedback to lobbyists on pertinent legislative billsServe on task forces, committees, or other community teams as needed.

Total Rewards Offerings:

Salem Health's comprehensive benefits package prioritizes your mental and physical health, financial stability, family obligations and professional growth.

• Relocation assistance available for qualified positions
• Full comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
• Basic and voluntary life insurance
• Short and long-term disability
• Live Well Wellness Program
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 401(K) retirement plan with employer contributions.
• Generous paid time off (PTO) accrual and holiday pay
• Onsite fitness center with 24/7 badge access
• Education assistance program
• Public service loan forgiveness (PSLF) eligible employerhttps://studentaid.gov/
• Food and drink discounts in the cafeteria
• Impressive discounts offered by Nike, Adidas, Carhartt and others

Background/Expertise:

Education:

• A bachelor's degree and a master's degree are required; preference given to BSN and MSN.
• If qualified candidate has MSN, a non-nursing bachelor's degree may be considered.
• If qualified candidate has BSN, a master's degree in business or related field may be considered.
• If qualified candidate has BSN and no master's degree, an agreement to obtain master's degree within three years may be considered.

Credentials:

• Registered Nurse: Must be currently licensed or eligible for licensure to practice as a Registered Nurse in the State of Oregon.
• Basic Life Support.
• AONE Cert Nurse Manager and Leader OR ANCC Nurse Executive must be obtained within 2 years of hire and kept current.

Experience:

• Minimum of five years acute care experience required.
• Minimum of two years progressive management experience required; five or more years preferred.
• ED nursing experience preferred.
• Program/system development experience preferred.
• Experience with patient throughput work preferred.

Salem Health Hospitals and Clinics is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status or condition protected by law.

Salem Health Hospitals and Clinics is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for applicants. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact my.recruiter@salemhealth.org