Director of Nursing, Women's and Children's Ambulatory Care

Department Overview
Women's and Children's Ambulatory Care supports a broad range of outpatient services across OHSU, including the OHSU Center for Women's Health and Doernbecher Children's Hospital ambulatory clinics. The department provides primary, specialty, and subspecialty care across 18 ambulatory clinical sites throughout Oregon and Southwest Washington. Services include women's health, obstetric and gynecologic care, reproductive health, pediatric primary and specialty care, and adolescent care.

The team works collaboratively across clinical and administrative leadership to support safe, equitable, evidence-based, patient- and family-centered care while advancing access, patient experience, health equity, and maternal and child health outcomes.

Department Overview
Women's and Children's Ambulatory Care supports a broad range of outpatient services across OHSU, including the OHSU Center for Women's Health and Doernbecher Children's Hospital ambulatory clinics. The department provides primary, specialty, and subspecialty care across 18 ambulatory clinical sites throughout Oregon and Southwest Washington. Services include women's health, obstetric and gynecologic care, reproductive health, pediatric primary and specialty care, and adolescent care.

The team works collaboratively across clinical and administrative leadership to support safe, equitable, evidence-based, patient- and family-centered care while advancing access, patient experience, health equity, and maternal and child health outcomes.
The Nursing Director is a Registered Nurse (RN) accountable for advancing excellence in nursing
care and leadership at the departmental or service line level. The Director provides strategic,
operational, financial, and human resource leadership while ensuring alignment with organizational
priorities and the Professional Practice Model. Through collaboration with interdisciplinary teams,
the Director fosters a care environment that supports safe, high-quality, patient- and family-centered
care, staff engagement, and continuous professional development. The Director drives quality,
safety, and performance improvement, manages resources responsibly, and ensures compliance with
regulatory and accreditation standards
Function/Duties of Position
This position provides clinical, operational, and nursing leadership for the ambulatory practices of the Women's and Children's (W&C) Service Line, which includes the OHSU Center for Women's Health and the Doernbecher Children's Hospital ambulatory clinics. This nursing leader holds budget accountability for 3 clinical programs across multiple sites and is accountable for the professional practice of nursing and the delivery of safe, equitable, evidence-based, patient- and family-centered care across 18 ambulatory clinical sites in Oregon and SW Washington.

This position directly supervises 5 unclassified leaders, with indirect reports exceeding 140 personnel.
The incumbent partners in a dyad/triad model with administrative and faculty leaders to plan and develop clinical programming, assure continuity of care across the perinatal and pediatric outpatient environments, and deliver services that meet patients' and families' needs in a warm, timely, and professional manner. Scope spans ambulatory women's health, including primary and preventive care, general and subspecialty obstetric and gynecologic services, and reproductive health;

and pediatric primary, adolescent, and specialty care, including the statewide pediatric specialty outreach program through which Doernbecher clinicians deliver care in communities beyond the Portland metro area.
The incumbent is accountable for day-to-day clinical operations across all assigned programs and for the professional practice of nursing throughout Women's and Children's ambulatory care. This accountability includes optimizing clinical resources and workflows to improve patient access and performance against service line targets, fostering a culture of safety, developing and validating role-specific competencies for clinical staff, and participating in cross-functional working groups so that W&C ambulatory activities comply with all applicable regulatory requirements.
This accountability further includes, but is not limited to, human resource functions of recruitment, onboarding, ongoing development, competency validation, performance management, and clinical compliance for registered nurses and support staff, nurse managers, and the clinical operations…