Dir Surgical Svcs

Northwest Health - La Porte is seeking a full time Director of Surgical Services.

The Director assumes leadership responsibility for the divisions clinical and administrative departments assigned. The director is responsible for the development of patient care programs, policies, and procedures. The director will participate with administration, management, medical staff, clinical leaders and frontline employees in the decisionmaking structures and processes. The director will implement an effective, ongoing program to measure, assess, and improve the reliability and quality of care delivered to patients. The director is responsible for budgeting and managing supplies, equipment, and personnel in the division. The director will ensure that division staff has sufficient information to comply with corporate compliance program.

Education: 

• BSN Required
• Masters Degree preferred or working towards completion within three years

Licensure: 

• Current licensure as a Registered Nurse in the State of Indiana or any other state with evidence of application for Indiana licensure.
• BLS Required
• ACLS Required

Essential Functions/Duties

• Demonstrates effective communication and relationship building skills (e.g., effective communication, relationship management, influence of behaviors, ability to work with diversity, shared decision making, community involvement, and medical staff relationships,
• Demonstrates knowledge of the healthcare environment (e.g., clinical practice knowledge, patient care delivery models, work design knowledge, healthcare economics, healthcare policy, governance, evidencebased practice, outcome measurement, patient safety, utilization / case management, quality improvement, metrics, and risk management).
• Employs leadership skills (e.g., foundational thinking, personal journey, uses systems thinking, succession planning and change management).
• Demonstrates professionalism (e.g., personal and career accountability, career planning, ethics, practices evidencebased clinical and management, advocates for the clinical enterprise and for clinical practice, and active membership in professional associations).
• Applies business skills (e.g., understanding of healthcare finances, human resource management and development, strategic management, marketing, and information management and technology).

Commitment to Purpose and Community Cares Standards of Behavior - Demonstrates a commitment to the organization's mission, vision and values supporting organizational decisions and behaviors. Contributes to the development and implementation of systems and processes ensuring strategic goal attainment. Actively participates, models and supports work aligned with the five pillars (Quality, Service, People, Finance, and Growth). Actively participates, models, and supports positive behaviors and transparent communications.

Developing Expertise - Takes action to continue to develop and acquire new expertise that is of increasing value to the organization

Relationships, Conversation and Collaboration - Works as part of a team with others, and shows respect and values diversity toward others.

Service Orientation - Demonstrates efforts to discovering, meeting and advocating for the customer's needs. Actively participates to improve the patient experience.

Excellence Orientation - Takes actions to continually improve quality and safety in daily work. Actively participates in improving work processes to meet and exceed customer requirements. Identifies opportunities for improvement based on process observation, outcome measures, and feedback from patients and other customers. Reports errors in a timely and appropriate manner. Takes initiative and is accountable for areas of responsibility meeting regulatory requirements including but not limited to maintaining annual TB testing, completing annual mandatories, and maintaining current registration/certification/licensures as appropriate to position requirements.

Problem Solving - The ability to understand a situation by breaking it apart into smaller pieces or tracing the implications in a step-by-step way.

Initiative - The identification of a problem, obstacle, or opportunity and proactively taking action to address current or future problems/opportunities.

Impact and Influence - The ability to persuade, convince, influence, or impress others (individuals or groups) in order to get them to go along with or to support one's opinion or position. The key is to understand others, since Impact and Influence is based on the desire to have a specific impact or effect on others.

Organizational Awareness - The ability to understand and learn the influence relationships in one's own organization or in other organizations (e.g., key stakeholders, suppliers, etc.). This includes the ability to identify who the real decision makers are; the individuals who can influence them; and to predict how new events or situations will affect individuals and groups within the organization