Employment Type:

Full time

Shift:

Day Shift

Description:

** New Market Director Rate **

Employment Type:

• Full Time - 40 hours per week

Shift Schedule:

• Days

POSITION PURPOSE 

Provides leadership, accountability and responsibility for the entire scope of Perioperative Services for MercyOne Medical Center, MercyOne West Des Moines, Centerville and Newton.  Operational responsibilities include budgeting, strategic planning, patient care management and integration and achieve organizational goals.  Acts as a role model and change agent by initiating and accepting changes for improved patient care and cost reductions. Maintains active communication and collaborates with senior leadership, physicians, leaders, and staff to meet specialty, departmental and organizational goals. 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS 

• Knows, understands, incorporates, and demonstrates the Trinity Health Mission, Vision, and Values in behaviors, practices, and decisions.  

• Demonstrates leadership, collaboration, critical thinking, and teamwork when facilitating clinical standard and operational decisions and resolving issues.  Demonstrates leadership competencies of team building, vision creation, and influence. Incorporates change leadership strategies through building a compelling vision, understanding the perspectives of the stakeholders, identification for tactics to elicit commitment and address resistance. 

• Utilizes data to identify opportunities for clinical variation, understands graphical representations of data, and applies project-oriented expertise in identifying leading and lagging metrics for implementation effectiveness, and data plans. Demonstrates data-driven approach for project prioritization and strategies. 

• Improves the quality and effectiveness of the ministry's overall health care initiatives by providing leadership and operational direction.  

• Collaborates and partners with other leaders for strategic planning, decision-making, and problem solving about health care services and organizational priorities. 

• Develops resource utilization strategies to improve organizational performance. Strategies reflect the changing societal and health care environments and the economic climate. 

• Advocates for clinical and business innovations that address needs, policy changes, workforce management, education which align with the organizational strategy and national priorities. 

• Maintains a working knowledge of applicable Federal, State, and local laws and regulations, including The Joint Commission, Trinity Health’s Organizational Integrity Program, Standards of Conduct, as well as other policies and procedures in order to ensure adherence in a manner that reflects honest, ethical, and professional behavior. 

• Assumes responsibility and accountability 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. 

• Develops an annual operational plan (including scope of service) in conjunction with the Chief Nursing Officer to integrate with MercyOne’s strategic plan and other related departments’ operational plans in order to efficiently provide services. 

• Develops, implements and periodically reviews all policies and procedures that guide and support the assigned services. These include, but are not limited to, TJC requirements, federal and state regulations, regulatory standards,