Senior Director Perinatal Services

Senior Director Of Nursing For Peri-Natal Services

The Senior Director of Nursing for PERI-NATAL SERVICES will provide leadership, direction, guidance and support of clinical operations within the DHS NICUs in the Corpus Christi Market, all DHS High Risk Clinics, WIC Clinics and Lactation Services in Corpus Christi, to ensure compliance with established rules, regulations, standards of care as well as organizational goals and objectives to achieve desired clinical, operational, quality, safety and financial outcomes.

Provides oversight and coordination of APRN staffing for facilities with coverage agreements for APRNs for all DHS contracted NICUs, including DCH-CC, NCC & DCH-RGV. The senior director is an administrative role.

Essential duties and responsibilities include maintaining utmost level of confidentiality at all times, adhering to hospital policies and procedures, demonstrating business practices and personal actions that are ethical and adhere to corporate compliance and integrity guidelines, assisting the service line leaders in determining departmental plans and objectives, overseeing the development and implementation of department budgets, ensuring compliance of budgets for responsible departments, overseeing the development of new programs and policies and procedures for responsible departments, conducting annual evaluations of service line leaders and direct reports, serving as a coach and mentor for the department leaders and direct reports under his/her leadership, developing and maintaining positive relationships with key patients, physicians, staff and external organizations, working collaboratively with business unit leadership to ensure care coordination of needs of the organization are being met, and must have reliable transportation.

Supervisory responsibilities include effectively administering performance management expectations for the service line leaders including coaching for success, developmental feedback, goal setting & consistent monitoring of metrics, milestones and goal achievements, assessing competency, progressive discipline, strong knowledge of and effectiveness in administering hospital policies and procedures, responsible for sound management of human resources, making and implementing both independent & collaborative decisions compatible with organizational goals, maintaining composure, effectiveness, and flexibility under pressure.

Perinatal-specific responsibilities include providing 24-hour leadership accountability for the delivery of safe, high-quality maternal and newborn care within assigned perinatal services, collaborating with the Neonatal Medical Director, Neonatal Program Manager, Director of Perinatal Care Alliance, nursing leadership, obstetric, anesthesia, neonatal, pediatric, and other interdisciplinary providers to promote optimal maternal and newborn outcomes, ensuring compliance with Texas Levels of Neonatal Care designation requirements and maintaining ongoing readiness for designation and regulatory surveys, participating in regional and state maternal/perinatal initiatives as appropriate, overseeing staff orientation, education, competency validation, simulation, and professional development appropriate to assigned perinatal services, monitoring quality, safety, patient experience, staffing, productivity, employee engagement, and other key performance indicators and implementing improvement plans as needed, and ensuring clinical policies, standards of care, equipment, staffing resources, and competencies support safe and effective newborn care.

Education and/or experience required include an advanced degree such as MSN, MBA, MHA, DNP or APRN (NNP or CNS in Peri-natal Services). Other advanced applicable degree may be considered. Minimum 10-years' experience in perinatal services with at least four years of progressive nursing leadership experience at the director level or higher in a level III or IV NICU or Peri-Natal related department or service.

Certificates, licenses, registrations required include current license to practice professional nursing in the state of Texas, active unrestricted driver's license, and national certification in at least one of the clinical areas noted above – required.