Sr Director of Nursing, DCH WC and Periop

Department Overview

The Senior Nursing Director, Women’s & Children’s (W&C) provides system-wide executive nursing leadership across all Women’s & Children’s Peri-Operative, Fetal and Inpatient Care Doernbecher Children’s Hospital. The incumbent provides senior level leadership over Doernbecher emphasizing safe, high quality, patient-centered, cost effective, and integrated care by collaborating effectively with physician, hospital and department leadership ensuring seamless, high-quality care across the inpatient continuum.

The Senior Director is also responsible for driving service line change initiatives of strategy, and clinical program development. The Senior Director of Nursing is a Registered Nurse (RN) responsible for upholding excellence in the provision of nursing care through the implementation of the Profession Practice Model. The role oversees operational, human resources, quality, and financial management of the assigned departments.

This role requires a high level of understanding of healthcare delivery, the regional pediatric and women’s healthcare markets, and the ability to think strategically to present innovative solutions to the complex challenges faced by pediatric and women’s health providers in Oregon and SW Washington.

This position also comes with great benefits! Some highlights include:

• Comprehensive health care plans that cover 100% for a full-time employee and 88% for dependents for .75 FTE and higher.
• $50K of term life insurance provided at no cost to the employee
• Two separate above market pension plans to choose from
• Paid time off- 208 hours per year (full-time), prorated for part-time
• Extended illness bank- 64 hours per year, prorated for part-time
• 9 paid holidays per year
• Three weeks of paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance program (up to 5k)
• Substantial Tri-met and C-Tran discounts
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Innovative Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

The role reports to the Vice President/Chief Nursing Officer of W&C Services. The Directors of Nursing in inpatient, women's and peri-operative report to this role. The Senior Director W&C service line partners with the other directors of nursing, adult leadership teams, Department Chairs of Pediatrics and OB/GYN, Vice Chairs, Division Chiefs, and Pediatric and OB/GYN Medical Directors. This position also collaborates with Department of Pediatric and OB/GYN Program Directors, the Doernbecher W&C Services Senior Leadership Team, OHSU ambulatory care senior leaders, and the W&C Director of Strategy.

Decisions and actions adhere to the American Nurses Association's Code of Ethics; the ANA Nursing Administration:
Scope and Standards of Practice; the Oregon State Board of Nursing Nurse Practice Act; and the Nurse Executive Competencies developed by the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL). The Senior Nursing Director exemplifies OHSU’s Culture of Safety by fostering a Just, Reporting, Learning, and Engaged/Informed culture.

• Facilitate department excellence and drive decisions with clinical leaders, medical directors, and administrative partners.
• Facilitates and drives alignment, performance, and accountability across scare areas
• Foster interdisciplinary collaboration across nursing, medicine, ancillary services, and system partners to advance integrated, cost-effective pediatric and women’s care.
• Participate in key committees/task forces to identify and resolve patient care, operational, and strategic issues.

• Drive operational excellence by analyzing and acting on key outcomes (e.g., ALOS, case mix index, utilization, variances to budgets, access and throughput, inpatient/outpatient volumes) to recognize trends, evaluate status, and implement interventions in partnership with physician leaders.
• Integrates service line strategy and execution to improve safety, quality, experience, access, and cost while achieving targets aligned to the OHSU priorities.
• Oversee budget performance (capital and operating), forecasting, and resource allocation in collaboration with Strategy/Finance partners.
• Ensure a safe,…