Executive Director - Center of Advanced Practice

Category: Nurse Management
Job Type: Full time
Shift: Day - 08 Hour
Location: Palo Alto, CA
Req: LP_
Employee Group: Exempt
Benefits Eligible: Yes
Remote Eligible: No
Department: Administration
Scheduled Weekly

Hours:

40

At Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, we know world-renowned care begins with world-class caring. That's why we combine advanced technologies and breakthrough discoveries with family-centered care. It's why we provide our caregivers with continuing education and state-of-the-art facilities, like the newly remodeled Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford. And it's why we need caring, committed people on our team - like you.

Join us on our mission to heal humanity, one child and family at a time.
Job : LP_

This paragraph summarizes the general nature, level and purpose of the job.

The Executive Director of Advanced Practice is a strategic and operational leader, responsible for optimizing the delivery of care provided by all Nurse Practitioners (NPs), Physician Assistants (PAs), Certified Nurse Midwives (CNMs), Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs), Genetic Counselors (GC) within LPCH/SMCH Center for Advanced Practice (CAP). This Executive Director serves to set strategic vision and drive the purpose of the Center for Advanced Practice in alignment with the mission, vision, and values of the greater organization.

The Executive Director will advance the professional practice environment by ensuring clinically competent Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) represent the organization in healthcare delivery through patient care, research, training, and education. The Executive Director will be responsible for establishing APP scope of practice to ensure full practice authority where appropriate. The Executive Director will establish APP productivity and utilization standards and drive revenue maximization as they relate to APP direct clinical work (consider: governance and accountability, role architecture and standard expectations, APP deployment and clinical integration, measurement systems that capture direct and indirect contributions, talent and career development, workforce economics and strategic planning.

The Executive Director is responsible for staying up to date on all clinical and regulatory requirements and leads the execution of those requirements across the enterprise.

The Executive Director fills an executive sponsorship role where they partner with key constituents across the enterprise to represent the Center for Advanced Practice. They actively contribute to strategic decisions to ensure that those decisions align with the Center for Advanced Practice strategic mission and vision.

Examples of key partnerships could include but are not limited to divisions, human resources, marketing, medical staffing, finance, strategy, process improvement, quality improvement, academic clinical partnerships, and a variety of other clinical, operational, and strategic committees.

The essential functions listed are typical examples of work performed by positions in this job classification. They are not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, tasks, and responsibilities. Employees may also perform other duties as assigned.

Employees must abide by all Joint Commission Requirements including but not limited to sensitivity to cultural diversity, patient care, patient rights and ethical treatment, safety and security of physical environments, emergency management, teamwork, respect for others, participation in ongoing education and training, communication and adherence to safety and quality programs, sustaining compliance with National Patient Safety Goals, and licensure and health screenings.

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