VP of Inpatient Services

Kids Are Our Everything. Department

10290 Hospital - CNO Nursing & Patie

$ - $

Reporting to the Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer, the Vice President of Inpatient Services is responsible for overall operations within the inpatient division of nursing, including planning, directing, implementing, and evaluating programs and services. The VP of Inpatient Services oversees nursing quality, regulatory, patient safety, fiscal, operational performance, and clinical outcomes within the inpatient departments as delegated by the CNO.

Additional responsibilities include participating in planning and decision-making at various hospital levels and representing inpatient nursing on hospital external committees and task forces as needed.

As a member of the Nursing Executive Leadership Team, the VP of Inpatient Services collaborates with providers, quality and safety leaders, finance, human resources, and interdisciplinary teams to advance high-reliability care, operational discipline, workforce engagement, patient and family experience, regulatory readiness, and measurable clinical outcomes.

• Master's Degree (Required)
• BSN (Required)
• Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP), PhD, DHA, EdD, or other doctoral degree (Preferred)

• 15 years Nursing experience to include at least 7 years of clinical experience (Required)
• 5 years of progressive responsibility in nursing leadership positions (Required)
• Demonstrated executive experience leading complex inpatient nursing and patient care services in a pediatric hospital, academic medical center, or comparable qua ternary healthcare environment, including daily operations, acute care, critical care, specialty programs, staffing systems, capacity management, care coordination, and multidisciplinary teams.
• Proven success managing budgets, quality outcomes, workforce engagement, and change initiatives.
• Experience in a children's hospital, pediatric service line, or academic pediatric healthcare setting is strongly preferred.

• Advanced knowledge of pediatric inpatient nursing practice, patient care services, family-centered care, developmentally appropriate care, complex acute and critical care operations, care model redesign, case management, utilization management, discharge planning, care coordination, patient throughput, and safe transitions of care.
• Demonstrated expertise leading inpatient operations across complex pediatric settings, including clinical workflows, staffing models, workforce productivity, capacity management, surge planning, patient progression, and performance improvement.
• Strong knowledge of professional nursing practice standards, Magnet recognition principles, shared governance, flexible staffing models, evidence-based practice, nursing research, leadership development, regulatory and accreditation requirements, high reliability, health equity, and pediatric quality and safety frameworks.
• Proven ability to establish and monitor quality, safety, experience, workforce, operational, and financial performance metrics to drive measurable outcomes.
• Executive-level understanding of healthcare finance, operating and capital budgets, workforce planning, productivity management, strategic resource allocation, business planning, and value-based care.
• Ability to develop and execute long-term inpatient services strategies aligned with enterprise priorities, clinical service line growth, academic missions, nursing excellence, care transformation, operational performance, and national pediatric benchmarks.
• Demonstrated ability to lead large-scale change, innovation, standardization, and transformation initiatives across complex healthcare environments.
• Exceptional executive communication, presentation, negotiation, and influencing skills with the ability to engage senior leaders, physicians, boards, staff, patients, families, and community stakeholders.
• Strong relationship-building skills with demonstrated success partnering across nursing, physician, operational, academic, community, and administrative teams.
• Skilled in collaboration, conflict resolution, consensus-building, stakeholder alignment, and leading interdisciplinary teams toward shared goals.
• Proven ability to foster an engaged, accountable, inclusive, and high-performing workforce through leadership development, mentorship, succession planning, and professional growth.
• Strong business acumen, systems thinking, strategic judgment, and ability to balance clinical…