Associate Chief Nursing Officer Inpatient

Associate Chief Nursing Officer Inpatient

The Assistant Chief Nursing Officer-Inpatient is responsible for Mission and Values implementation, operational leadership and direction of Inpatient departments. Is responsible for performance planning and improvement, clinical quality, fiscal and service results; and patient, customer and employee satisfaction.

• Strategic Planning and Operations
• Oversees day-to-day operations of assigned areas, programs, projects, and initiatives.
• Provides leadership and direction across nursing in areas of practice, stewardship, performance improvement, and professionalism.
• Provides leadership and direction in establishing and operationalizing a nursing strategic plan across the organization.
• Sets organizational and Department of Nursing expectations for upholding mission, vision, values, and 5-star goals in all initiatives/decisions.
• Works collaboratively across departments and disciplines to align planning and execution of organizational goals that promotes optimal patient and family outcomes.
• Ensures compliance with all regulatory agencies and standards governing health care delivery by continuous monitoring of clinical practices/operations and initiating improvement activities where required to proactively identify and address areas of potential non-compliance.
• Actively prioritizes communication, expectations, and improvement work to support a culture that promotes patient and staff safety
• Excellence and Quality Outcomes
• Establishes and assures an active plan for both self and team accountability for evaluation of quality care delivery systems, staffing effectiveness, and patient care outcomes.
• Is a highly visible organizational leader, building strong relationships and collaborative processes.
• Facilitates shared accountability across the organization for exceptional performance and safe, quality processes and outcomes, in partnership with the medical staff, especially in the care and service of each patient.
• Ensures and models the discipline and rigor required daily for care areas to know their current performance to goal, improvement work, and its impact on care delivery.
• Demonstrates ability to strategically identify, plan, and communicate critical success factors necessary for nursing services across the department.
• Evaluates trended data and leads improvements in systems and processes for the Department of Nursing to ensure quality patient outcomes.
• Fiscal Management
• Assures the sound fiscal understanding of nursing leaders to establish and manage to budget and productivity targets.
• Skillfully manages operational resources across the Department of Nursing and adjusts operations to achieve financial objectives;
• Works collaboratively with the finance leaders to meet fiscal goals of the organization.
• Places a high degree of prioritization on the ongoing work to improve current processes and workflows aligning resources to high priority work across the department.
• Human Resource Management/People
• Demonstrates personal effectiveness in leading the Department of Nursing and areas of responsibility toward established goals.
• Models appropriate values and social, ethical, and organizational norms in leading others.
• Provides leadership in human resources development, performance management processes and outcomes, and the establishment of appropriate organizational structures in collaboration with the Human Resources Department and other department leaders.
• Delineates personnel accountabilities and empowers personnel to achieve personal, professional, and organizational goals.
• Manages organizational responsibilities in such a way that supports the leadership and management teams and the engagement of key stakeholders in achieving organizational goals.
• Maintains relationships with external key stakeholders and supports the department's ability to deliver on all valid stakeholder expectations.
• Celebrates the innovation, creativity, risk-taking, and achievement of the organization, departments, and individuals.
• Maintains professional affiliations and enhances professional growth and development regarding latest trends in nursing and healthcare.
• Communicat…