Senior Director Nursing Excellence and Professional Practice

It's more than a career, it's a calling

MO-SSM Health Mission Hill

Worker Type:

Regular

Job Highlights:

This position is located on-site at our health system's headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri and is not remote work eligible.

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SSM Health is a Catholic, not-for-profit health system serving the comprehensive health needs of communities across the Midwest through a robust and fully integrated health care delivery system. The organization’s 40,000 team members and more than 13,900+ providers are committed to providing exceptional health care services and revealing God’s healing presence to everyone they serve.
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With care delivery sites in Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin, SSM Health includes 23 hospitals, more than 300 physician offices and other outpatient and virtual care services, 12 post-acute facilities, comprehensive home care and hospice services, a pharmacy benefit company, a health insurance company and an accountable care organization. It is one of the largest employers in every community it serves.

To request additional information, confidentially submit your interest, or nominate a fellow colleague, please contact:

Angela Jones

Executive Talent Acquisition

Angela.Jones1@ssmhealth.com

#LI-Onsite

Job Summary:

Responsible for leading a team of nursing professionals and coordinates inpatient, ambulatory and continuum of care nursing practice across the enterprise in accordance with the mission, vision, and values of the organization. Promotes nursing excellence through the continuous improvement of quality, safety, patient experience, and effectiveness of nursing practice. Promotes organizational learning, rapid dissemination of key learnings, and the sharing of knowledge and talent across the system. Leads inter-professional collaboration through dyad and triad partnerships that ensure the coordination and standardization of evidence based and best practices.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Serves as a member of the nursing leadership team to operationalize the nursing strategic plan to improve nursing practice, clinical outcomes, and organizational performance. 
• Leads through planning, directing, prioritizing, managing, and monitoring major systems and change processes for key priorities. Collects, analyzes, and disseminates data to measure the impact of system changes, monitor improvement, and achieve expected outcomes. Develops appropriate methods to promote, identify, and disseminate clinical and management innovations through publication, presentations, and networking with key stakeholders, both internal and external. 
• Develops and implements communication plans, deployment strategies, and education tools for standard implementation and sustainability. Evaluates trends, innovations, standards, and conceptual models for impact on professional nursing practice and applicability to clinical practice. Promotes clinical scholarship and practices transformation through the facilitation of nursing research, evidence-based practice, continuous improvement, and innovation. 
• Develops and provides directions to system, regional, and ministry practice council leaders and teams to help ensure adoption and use of evidence-based pract