Senior Nursing Administrator, Craig H. Neilsen Rehabilitation Hospital

Overview

The Senior Nursing Administrator at Craig H. Neilsen Rehabilitation Hospital (CHNRH) is a key nursing leader for both CHNRH and the University of Utah Health (UHealth) Department of Nursing, translating system nursing strategy into day-to-day operational and clinical execution across CHNRH.

 

This role leads nursing care, outcomes, and practice at CHNRH while serving as an integral member of the Department of Nursing leadership, ensuring the two are integrated and aligned in outcomes, patient and staff experience, and practice standards.

 

As a senior leader, this role partners with medical staff and executive leadership to advance safe, high-quality, cost-effective care, promotes a culture of nursing excellence, and fosters system-wide relationships to ensure coordinated, high-quality patient care.

 

This position reports jointly to the UHealth System Chief Nursing Executive, or their designated representative, and the Chief Administrative Officer of CHNRH.

 

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Corporate Overview: University of Utah Health is an integrated academic healthcare system with five hospitals including a level 1 trauma center, eleven community health centers, over 1,600 providers, and a health plan serving over 200,000 members. University of Utah Health is nationally ranked and recognized for our academic research, quality standards and overall patient experience. In addition to our clinical delivery system, we have a School of Medicine, School of Dentistry, College of Nursing, College of Pharmacy, and College of Health providing education and training for over 1,250 providers annually. We have over 2 million patient visits annually and research grants exceeding $350 million. University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics represents our clinical operations for the larger health system.

 

As a patient-focused organization, University of Utah Health exists to enhance the health and well-being of people through patient care, research and education. Success in this mission requires a culture of collaboration, excellence, leadership, and respect. University of Utah Health seeks staff that are committed to the values of compassion, collaboration, innovation, responsibility, integrity, quality and trust that are integral to our mission. EO/AA

Responsibilities

Essential Functions

Job Specific Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Responsible for and overseeing day-to-day nursing operations, and all nursing practice at CHNRH.
• Demonstrates transformational leadership
• Maintains and fosters strong relationships and collaboration with UUHC Department of Nursing, CHNRH, and other key stakeholders to promote and advance strategic, clinical, and operational initiatives across all health system settings.
• Align and ensure nursing standards are achieved, and the competency of skills for nursing roles are maintained to safely deliver quality care.
• Ensures operational excellence and delivery of services in accordance with applicable regulatory requirements, policies, procedures and professional standards.
• Ensures ongoing compliance with CARF (Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities) accreditation standards and other rehabilitation-specific regulatory requirements, maintaining CHNRH's specialized accreditation status.
• Promotes the principles of high reliability care to enable and sustain a culture of safety, organizational learning, and performance improvement.
• Collaborates with CHNRH, and UUHC Department of Nursing to develop a vision for operations which ensures alignment with organizational and department of nursing clinical operations, vision and strategy.
• Participates in leadership activities for the organization, contributing to the achievement of goals and objectives, and evaluates operational performance.
• Maintains operational compliance with legal, regulatory, and recommended standards of governing and accrediting bodies, including organization-wide accreditation standards
• Assigns and evaluates annual goal setting and achievement. Manages discipline and performance of direct reports, including but not limited to evaluating performance by providing mentoring, coaching, and development to leaders.
• Reviews and approves resource plans for areas of responsibility within operation.
• Develops and promotes effective working relations to facilitate achievement of goals and objectives.
• Establishes and maintains effective communications and collaboration with administrators, medical directors and physicians, and team members.
• Resolves escalated issues arising from operations requiring coordination with other departments and key stakeholders.