Director of ICU and Stepdown - Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital

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Nursing Administration

The Vanderbilt Health Executive Search Team is conducting a national search for a Director of ICU and Stepdown at Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital. The Director will provide overall leadership for the unit by developing goals, objectives, policies, and procedures; supervising, coordinating, and evaluating activities; preparing operating and capital expenditure budgets; and performing personnel administration functions.

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• Develop goals and objectives for the department based on the interpretation of institutional policy and goals.
• Plan to achieve goals or establish priorities.
• Help the department understand, share, and support the vision.
• Initiate changes in or develop new policies, procedures, and/or methods.
• Analyze long‑range impact of decisions and plans.
• Ensure the most effective operations of the department through program development, process improvement, and coordination/integration of processes with other departments.
• Design, implement, evaluate, and market programs to maximize clinical outcomes, functional status, patient/customer satisfaction, and reimbursement.
• Standardize services, processes, resources, and practice to improve efficiency.
• Supervision to include responsibility for planning, coordinating, and controlling the work and procedures; provide advice/consultation to staff regarding problems.
• Adjust work schedules or project priorities to meet emergencies or changing conditions.
• Participate on departmental and/or interdepartmental committees to address problems and facilitate information exchange about programs, problems, etc. Provide information to others (oral or written) to explain/clarify problems, issues, or requests.
• Participate in periodic management meetings to keep top management informed of department problems and concerns.
• Analyze and evaluate ongoing department programs to identify areas where adjustments/improvements are needed.
• Develop staffing plans to ensure developmental objectives are being met.
• Define and achieve financial targets in support of business goals of the institution.
• Prepare an annual operating budget for a unit or department, including direct labor, material and supplies, services, equipment maintenance, and replacement.
• Present and justify a proposed budget (operating and capital expenditure) to a management review committee.
• Evaluate organizational functions and structures to best determine the allocation and utilization of resources.
• Analyze and evaluate budget variance to determine cause.
• Prepare justification or develop alternatives for cost containment/reduction.
• Project future budgets based upon analysis of current operations.
• Create and exceed service standards utilizing key service dimensions and from knowledge of patient/customer expectations and best practice.
• Establish service standards for the department and determine if service standards are compatible with financial targets.
• Ensure that the service standards are met or exceeded by utilizing customer satisfaction, best practices, and market information to improve customer service and satisfaction.
• Create an organizational culture (both within and across departments) that provides a safe, satisfying, and enriching environment for employees and provides qualified, competent staff to meet patient needs.
• Provide leadership to promulgate the mission and the values of the institution to the department.
• Model behavior consistent with the mission, vision, and values of the enterprise through leading, coordinating projects, innovation,…