Director Surgical Services - Riverside Methodist Hospital

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Job Description Summary:

Lead and direct all care and services provided within the Surgical Services departments to ensure optimal patient care. Demonstrates experience and expertise in surgical services. Demonstrates leadership skills that include but are not limited to the ability to plan, communicate, align resources, engage management and staff, and work across the continuum and achieve service, safety, clinical and operating goals.

Responsibilities And Duties:

1. Evaluates current processes and refines or improve processes across the function in response to health care trends, clinical and service evidence, economics and regulatory mandates and change. 2. Establishes and ensures a sustaining environment that values diversity, open communication, teamwork both within departments and between department s , and shared decision making at every level in the departments 3. Actively engages the Surgical Services management team in fulfillment of desired strategic and operational objectives and results. 4. Facilitates performance improvement activities that impact Surgical Services across the organization and in collaboration with the System. 5. Regularly reviews metrics related to performance including safety, clinical outcomes, efficiency, productivity, volume, and other key operation metrics. ; Maintain a focus on the balanced scorecard results and targets. Solicits benchmark performance results for areas requiring improvement and develops and implements plans that reflect best practices. 6. Monitors and promotes a culture of safety throughout Surgical Services. 7. Develops capital and operational equipment plan based on future forecasts, trends in utilization, replacement needs and other variables to best estimate investment needs and ensure operation of Surgical Services. 8. In collaboration with the Surgical Services management team, develop staffing plans that balance productivity, associate satisfaction and the needs of patients and physicians. 9. Manages and influences change and leads Surgical Services management team and associates in overcoming resistance to change. 10. Coordinates patient care, operational management, and improvement with medical staff leaders through surgical governance, Surgery Operations Committee and other departmental and/or hospital committees.

Minimum Qualifications:

Master's Degree (Required)

Additional Job Description:

Nursing or healthcare related field or non-Nursing directors must have healthcare related Master’s Degree. Exceptional communication, engagement, budgetary and business skills. 5 to 7 years of strong operations and management Experience preferably in surgical services. Proven ability to build effective working relationships with physicians.