Senior Director, APP - Oncology

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Day - 08 Hour (United States of America)

A Brief Overview
The Senior Director of Advanced Practice provides direction and supervision for all Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) including Nurse Practitioners (NP), Physician Assistants (PA), and Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNS) in designated in-patient and out-patient services lines in collaboration with the Center for Advanced Practice. Leads and supports advanced practice to ensure quality and efficient patient care and ensuring all clinical standards are met. Assists with identifying, measuring and evaluating clinical and departmental outcomes. The Senior Director Provides strategic and operational direction for APP practice including oversight of hiring, onboarding, terminating and managing disciplinary action within the Service Line. The Senior Director will be responsible for staffing allocation, ensuring independent practice where appropriate and the presence of consistent and fair coverage across the Service Line.

What you will do

• Responsible for the hiring, onboarding and managing Service Line APPs in collaboration with Service Line operational and medical leadership and the Center for Advanced Practice.

• In conjunction with operational leaders allocates staffing and ensures appropriate coverage of patient care needs during transitions or leave of physicians or APPs.

• Coordinates and integrates independent practice and monitors quality of care within and among the sections to achieve desired goals and outcomes.

• Oversees the quality of clinical practices and procedures for Staff APPs and Lead APPs in collaboration with medical leadership.

• Collaborates with operational managers to implement and evaluate new programs in conjunction with division/service physicians and hospital and clinic leadership.

• Collaborates with faculty, patient care directors, clinic managers, nursing staff and support services to determine staffing standards and ensure the appropriate number of APP staff; assessing scheduling practices based on service requirements, establishing productivity guidelines, and monitoring implementation of these guidelines and scheduling practices.

• Manages patient care, human resources, systems and workflow processes to achieve and maintain a budget neutral status.

• Accountable for strategic oversight of Advanced Practice Providers withing a Service Line/Destination Service Line, including advancing APP-Faculty care models within SHC and at network and affiliate partners.

• Oversees the advancement of research through active training and participation in clinical trials in collaboration with faculty and research staff.

• Ensures alignment with national trends in APP-led clinical care pathways and clinic models. Works with operational and faculty leaders to design, implement, and monitor APP-led care models supporting patients across the care continuum.

• Participates in the Interdisciplinary Practice Committee and other APP leadership committees as appropriate.

• Mentors and assists Directors, Managers, Lead APPs and staff APPs in achieving inpatient and outpatient patient care mission and goals.

• Initiates and maintains an organizational structure for the APPs and creates a culture that facilitates collaboration and participation within the service line.

• Works collaboratively with the Center for Advanced Practice and the Nursing Shared Leadership structure in developing house wide APP initiatives.

• Communicates institutional and service line goals, develops a plan collaboratively for implementation and then operationalize quality goals and improvements in patient care.

• Collects, analyzes and synthesizes clinical, quality, financial and outcomes data for effective decision-making.

• Serves on appropriate leadership committees in the Service Line and provides routine updates at those meetings to promote necessary changes and report on quality/outcomes data.

• Manage a large portfolio of APPs across multiple service lines and/or multiple sites with significant scope and complexity.

• Responsible for national accreditation and other quality standards of APP practice broadly or within their service lines.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in a related field from an accredited college or university

• Minimum of Twelve (12) years of experience as an Advanced Practice Provider.

• In addition, five (