Senior Director of Nursing, Surgical Services

Senior Director Of Nursing, Surgical Services

The Senior Director of Nursing, Surgical Services provides executive leadership, strategic direction, and operational oversight of surgical services and SPD services. This role is responsible for a group of perioperative, procedural, and sterile processing areas and provides leadership for programs and initiatives that strengthen quality, safety, patient flow, operational efficiency, and workforce performance. The Senior Director ensures alignment with regulatory requirements, evidence-based practice, interdisciplinary coordination, and the mission and vision of ANMC.

This leader mentors nursing leadership and supports the development of communication, clinical knowledge, leadership capability, professionalism, and business acumen across the surgical service line.

Responsibilities:

• Provides executive leadership for surgical services and SPD services, ensuring safe, efficient, high-quality care delivery across assigned perioperative, procedural, and sterile processing departments.
• Assists the ACNO/CNO in strategic planning, resource allocation, policy development, and operational decision-making to advance nursing priorities, quality outcomes, and service line performance.
• Participates in emergency management, incident command, surge response, and business continuity planning as assigned to support organizational readiness and continuity of operations during urgent or evolving events.
• Supports academic partnerships, clinical education, professional development, and nursing research or quality dissemination activities that strengthen recruitment, retention, practice advancement, and organizational learning.
• Fosters a just culture and psychologically safe work environment by supporting leader visibility, structured communication, staff well-being, resilience strategies, learning from events, and open reporting of risks, near misses, and improvement opportunities.
• Promotes a professional practice environment grounded in shared governance, evidence-based practice, ethical nursing standards, and leadership development, and supports nursing excellence through specialty certification, succession planning, and workforce capability building.
• Champions an exceptional patient and family experience by partnering with leaders and teams to strengthen communication, responsiveness, service recovery, and culturally respectful, patient-centered care.
• Leads operational oversight of surgical services, with accountability for staffing, scheduling, case flow, capacity, patient acuity, and budget performance.
• Partners with surgeons, anesthesia leaders, SPD leaders, procedural areas, and hospital operations to improve access, quality, safety, throughput, instrument readiness, and interdisciplinary coordination across the surgical continuum.
• Oversees operational processes related to scheduling, block utilization, first case on-time starts, turnover efficiency, case delays, and procedural flow to optimize patient access and service line performance.
• Develops and monitors budgets for assigned departments and programs, balancing patient care needs, staffing models, productivity expectations, capital planning, and fiscal stewardship.
• Establishes service line goals, quality metrics, and performance expectations; monitors outcomes and leads corrective actions and improvement strategies as needed.
• Creates an environment of continuous improvement, strong nursing engagement, and accountability by coaching leaders, strengthening team performance, and promoting evidence-based practice.
• Leads talent management and leadership development efforts for assigned areas, including succession planning, performance management, staff competency, and readiness for current and future organizational needs.
• Ensures compliance with applicable federal, state, accreditation, infection prevention, and perioperative practice requirements, as well as hospital and departmental policies, standards of practice, and scope of service expectations.
• Promotes a culture of safety by overseeing clinical practice standards, procedural readiness, equipment and instrument reliability, sterile processing operations, and adherence…