RN Senior Director, MSHS Nursing Staffing and Analytics- 42nd St Clinical Command Center - FT- Days

The Senior Director of Nursing Staffing is responsible for the overall strategic, financial, and quality management of Mount Sinai Health System clinical staffing operations to ensure implementation of the mission, philosophy, patient care standards and technology to support quality care and efficient throughput. This individual is responsible for ensuring safe, efficient, and regulatory compliant staffing practices across all clinical departments and settings. The Senior Director ensures MSHS clinical workforce strategies optimize patient outcomes, labor productivity, and financial performance while maintaining compliance with all federal, state, accreditation, and collective bargaining agreements.  The Senior Director will work directly with the MSHS Throughput and Logistics Team within the Clinical Command Center (CCC) to ensure that staffing models support daily clinical operations that drive efficient patient throughout and support patient care based on census and acuity. 

OPERATIONS AND ADMINISTRATION
1.    Partners with CCC Throughput and Logistics, Nursing Leadership, Finance, HR, and Digital Technology Partners to forecast workforce needs and staffing models.

2.    Collaborate with MSHS Throughput and Logistic to ensure staffing plans align with health system unit and bed utilization targets.

3.    Works with Nursing Leadership and CCC Throughput and Logistics to gain an understanding of professional and non-professional staff needed for volume and patient complement on each clinical unit.

4.    Lead workforce innovation initiatives such as predictive staffing analytics and staffing platform technology optimization.

5.    Reviews census interface and staffing matrixes to ensure that clinical staffing aligns with actual and projected patient census and acuity. 
6.    Interprets collective bargaining agreements and regulatory requirements affecting staffing to ensure compliance.  

7.    Monitors and reports productivity metrics, staffing ratios, overtime utilization, emergency overtime, agency usage, premium pay utilization, and labor efficiency.

8.    Collaborate with CCC Throughput and Logistics and clinical leaders to address staffing challenges, escalation processes, and emergency staffing plans.

9.    Lead contingency staffing planning for disasters, surges, pandemics, and emergency preparedness situations.

10.    Develop and implement strategies to reduce agency and overtime utilization.

11.    Prepares time utilization reports as well as monthly orientation hours, monthly Constant/One to One Observation (CO)/Safety Observation (SO) hours, employee attendance reports, and ad hoc reports as requested by health system leadership.

12.    Utilizes the staffing and scheduling system to produce regular and ad hoc reports to identify optimal staffing that is cost effective and supports safe patient care.

13.    Maintains liaison with Human Resources, Payroll, Labor Relations, Finance and the Clinical Command Center to ensure that clinical staffing models meet financial, operational, and compliance objectives.

14.    Participates in MSHS site staffing committee meetings and collaborative bargaining unit staffing meetings.

15.    Establish staffing governance structures and staffing policy standards across the organization.

1.    Serves as chairperson/ member of Nursing Department/Hospital and System committees, and initiatives.

2.    Establishes and implements a system that supports best practice patient care staffing, safe and efficient patient throughput, and access to resources for the unit/clinical service area.

3.    Performs related duties, as required.    

REGULATORY AND COMPLIANCE
1.    Ensure compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local staffing regulations and collaborative bargaining agreements.

2.    Reviews and ensures that annual MSHS clinical staffing plans are prepared annually according to New York State regulations and are submitted each year per NYS guidelines.

3.    Aggregate staffing variance report data and report data to CCC leadership, CNOs, Finance, and Labor Relations monthly.

4.    Maintains documentation for MSHS demonstrating compliance with tracking and reporting as per NYS on the following but not limited to:

a.    Staffing plan implementation
b.    Staffing committee functioning
c.    Staffing variance remediation
d.    Corrective action efforts related to non-compliance

5.    Ensures that MSHS clinical staffing plans are implemented and maintained throughout the year.  

6.    On a monthly basis collects and maintains required documentation related to Clinical Staffing Committee Reporting per NYS staffing guidelines including but not limited to:

a.    Committee membership
b.    Meeting Schedules
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