Assistant Vice President, Clinical Operations - Regional Ambulatory Surgery Centers

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Assistant Vice President, 

Clinical Operations

Regional Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASC's)

Full-Time

Overview:

The AVP, Clinical Operations of Regional Ambulatory Surgery Centers, will serve as the front-line leader for operations, including serving as a resource for all levels of nursing staff in the ambulatory settings. The AVP is a critical member of HSS's Patient Care Services and will be responsible for ensuring the smooth operations of all aspects of the clinical operations of Paramus, Long Island and HSS NY Regional Markets portfolio, including the East Side and West Side ASC's. This key leadership role will advance the organization's strategic objectives by ensuring clinically excellent performance across all HSS's Regional Markets locations, preparing and sustaining a clinically competent workforce that will meet HSS goals for quality, patient satisfaction, and overall excellence, and supporting growth and expansion initiatives. Critically important is the expectation that this key leader will create and maintain a culture of service, accountability and peer to peer support.

This leader will also ensure strong linkages between the Regional Ambulatory Surgery Centers teams and HSS Main Campus, to facilitate a culture throughout HSS.

The AVP understands the Magnet Program and culture; and integration of Magnet standards into the nursing department infrastructure. The AVP supports the shared governance model; maintains active engagement, facilitates site involvement in shared governance and enterprise wide committees to ensure ASC representation.

The AVP provides clinical leadership to nurses in the perioperative, intraoperative, postoperative, settings. The AVP will be highly collaborative and have the ability to effectively communicate and interact directly with all staff to create partnerships and relationships across all the entities in the HSS Regional Markets. With regard to the sites, the AVP must be able to work effectively with leadership and staff from main campus and site leadership to engender a positive culture within which the Collaborative will thrive. The AVP will foster strong relationships with nursing leadership at HSS Main Campus and encourage cross pollination wherever possible.

This position requires a forward-thinking, innovative, and enthusiastic leader who is willing to achieve growth and continuous improvement via research, dialogue, and collaboration.

This position is an employee of HSS and will report to the HSS Vice President of Perioperative Services, with a matrixed reporting relationship to each site.

Responsibilities:

• Leads and manages the day-to-day operations of All-Sites to ensure the highest-quality care to patients, families, surgeons, and staff satisfaction. Ensures cost-effective delivery of care.
• Develops an extensive understanding of all institutions and their missions, and the strategic plan and goals for All-Sites as a framework for influencing and negotiating positive change and further integration.
• Develops strategic goals for All-Sites Nursing, ensuring their alignment with the hospitals' business development and growth objectives.
• Participates in the creation and conduct of shared governance and organizational decision making.
• Advocates for All-Sites and its patients, providers, and staff through representation and participation on various hospital work groups.
• Works as the nursing leader for collaboratively achieving high-quality patient outcomes and representing both institutions professionally.
• Innovates nursing practices by influencing attitudes, modifying behaviors, and successfully implementing changes that improve patient outcomes.
• Implements a continuous-improvement mind-set in Nursing by regularly reviewing and evaluating care and service.
• Identifies areas for improvement in operations and patient care. Develops and oversees initiatives to address improvements, and facilitate quality-improvement projects.
• Coordinates and ensures the development of policies and procedures, Standards of Care, and protocols essential to the delivery of care.
• Utilizes and improves existing technology/platforms to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate errors, and inform decision-making in-patient care and operations.
• In collaboration with leadership, oversee the implementation of large technological projects and tracks their effectiveness.
• Oversee the implementation of large technology projects and tracks their effectiveness.
• Supports and mentors nursing staff and nurse leaders in the performance-improvement process to improve patient outcomes.
• Participates in educational programs of professional organizations or other educational institutions. Maintains and develops competence through required in-service and continuing-education programs.
• Manages the All-Sites nursing staff, using a sound performance-management system. Assists with building and sustaining a highly capable and engaged team of professionals who are empowered to carry out their responsibilities. Additionally, foster a team-centered culture that is wholly consistent with that of All-Sites.
• Manages staffing, budgets, and all other administrative and clinical activities.
• Develops, compiles, analyzes, and reports on key performance indicators and other data.
• Develops, compiles, analyzes, and reports on key performance indicators and other data to site and hospital leadership.

• Masters required
• RN License New York State
• Clinical certification (Licensure in CT/NY/NJ may be required upon hire).
• CT/NY/NJ Registered Nurse (RN) License and CPR Certification required

Experience Requirements

• 5 – 7 years of experienced required
• Significant leadership experience in perioperative nursing, inclusive of all perioperative phases of care, with a concentration in OR, is required.
• In-depth knowledge and a strategic understanding of clinical operations in a hospital are required.
• Proven leadership skills; has managed people and departments through well-established performance-management skills; has developed clinical competencies and evaluated nursing practices through on-going assessment
• Possesses a "big-picture," strategic mind-set and has successfully developed business plans, budgets, and strategic goals for clinical operations (acute care and ambulatory) that are aligned with those of a hospital/healthcare system
• Has served as a clinical resource for all levels of nursing staff in both the acute care and ambulatory settings
• Proven experience in participating in and/or leading continuous improvement and change-management initiatives
• Demonstrated knowledge and well versed in establishing best practices in patient services in a hospital or healthcare system
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team-focused environment; ability to effectively engage and interact with multi­ discipline teams, especially physicians and their staff
• Outstanding analytical and process Capable of tracking and monitoring data, identifying trends, and making recommendations for improvement, based on rational thinking and data
• Experienced in developing policies and procedures, Standards of Care, and protocols essential to the delivery of care