What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Clinical Operations position at TriHealth?
Job Overview
This role has 24-hour accountability for its area of responsibility. Key areas include patient care outcomes, service excellence, human resource issues, fiscal management, quality improvement compliance, and communication. Emphasis is placed on creating a positive environment that fosters professional growth and retention.
FTE: Full Time (1.0 FTE)
Shift: Days
Responsibilities:
- Quality and Patient Safety: Identify key indicators and implement performance improvement measures related to quality, safety, and customer needs and expectations.
- Retention Risk Assessment: Actively solicit staff concerns and potential retention problems. Work to assist in retaining new employees, especially new graduate nurses.
- Staff Recruitment and Selection: Assess departmental staffing needs to determine recruitment priorities. Partner with HR to recruit candidates. Interview and assess candidates to ensure they meet the requirements of the position.
- Customizing Staff Development: Identify staff educational needs and facilitate opportunities for staff development in collaboration with nurse educators.
- Enhancing Unit Communication: Solicit interactive communication from staff to provide opportunities for feedback or suggestions for unit-level initiatives.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
- Certification within specialty area within two years of assuming position
- Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers (BLS)
- Registered Nurse
- Membership in related professional organization preferred
- 2-3 years experience Progressive Leadership in Nursing in a related field
- 2-3 years experience Clinical in Nursing
Working Conditions:
- Climbing - Rarely
- Concentrating - Consistently
- Continuous Learning - Consistently
- Hearing: Conversation - Consistently
- Hearing: Other Sounds - Frequently
- Interpersonal Communication - Consistently
- Kneeling - Rarely
- Lifting <10 Lbs - Consistently
- Lifting 50 Lbs. - Rarely
- Lifting <50 Lbs. - Occasionally
- Pulling - Rarely
- Reaching - Rarely
- Reading - Consistently
- Sitting - Consistently
- Standing - Rarely
- Stooping - Rarely
- Talking - Consistently
- Thinking/Reasoning - Consistently
- Use of Hands - Frequently
- Color Vision - Occasionally
- Visual Acuity: Far - Frequently
- Visual Acuity: Near - Consistently
- Walking - Frequently
