JOB POSTING IS EXPIRED
Director Surgical Services

Job Overview

Overview

The Director Surgical Services is responsible for the development, implementation, and evaluation of the strategic plan for surgical services and nursing practice within the acute care hospital, consistent with the organization’s strategic and business plans. Operational oversight includes Surgery, Pre/Post Surgery (Babka), Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU), and Sterile Processing. The Director works with the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) and patient care leadership team to create destination nursing departments for patients, families, staff, and providers. The Director provides leadership and positive promotion of the services continuum from pre-procedure to immediate post-procedure programming with linkage to acute and critical care services and post-discharge resources. The Director is responsible for the development, communication, and successful execution of established objectives (financial and clinical) within surgical services.

Why UnityPoint Health?

At UnityPoint Health, you matter. We’re proud to be recognized as a Top 150 Place to Work in Healthcare by Becker's Healthcare several years in a row for our commitment to our team members.

Our competitive Total Rewards program offers benefits options that align with your needs and priorities, no matter what life stage you’re in.  Here are just a few:    

• Expect paid time off, parental leave, 401K matching and an employee recognition program.

• Dental and health insurance, paid holidays, short and long-term disability and more. We even offer pet insurance for your four-legged family members.

• Early access to earned wages with Daily Pay, tuition reimbursement to help further your career and adoption assistance to help you grow your family.

With a collective goal to champion a culture of belonging where everyone feels valued and respected, we honor the ways people are unique and embrace what brings us together.  

And, we believe equipping you with support and development opportunities is a vital part of delivering an exceptional employment experience.

Find a fulfilling career and make a difference with UnityPoint Health.

Responsibilities

Leadership:

• Provides leadership in the implementation of patient care delivery strategies.

• Synthesizes and integrates divergent viewpoints for the good of the organization. Provides
visionary thinking on issues that impact the organization.

• Establishes mechanisms that provide for early identification and mentoring of staff with leadership
potential.

• Represents Finley Hospital on health-related topics and issues through community involvement.

• Serves as a professional role model and mentor to future nursing leaders.

• Serves as a change agent, assisting others in understanding the importance, necessity, impact,
and process of change. Supports staff during times of difficult transitions.

Communication:

• Provides for two-way conversations between associates and leadership.

• Builds trusting, collaborative relationships with staff, peers, physicians, and administration to
advance the core inpatient business strategy.

• Communicates a shared vision regarding the strategic goal of strengthening the core.

• Engage staff in shared decision making by facilitating unit practice committees and similar shared
governance committees.

• Builds credibility with physicians as a champion for patient care, quality, and professional practice.

• Collaborates with medical staff to implement evidence-based practice and process improvement

• Builds partnerships that support and promote care coordination and case management strategies.

Business Responsibility:

• Develops annual and multiyear capital budget.

• Develops annual operational budget to support strategic plan.

• Executes the established plan through measurement, monitoring, and analysis of resource
utilization and adjusting direction when needed.

• Collaborates with the VP of Operations and the CNO to support program/practice changes to
continually improve resource utilization.

• Educates patient care team members on financial implications of patient care decisions.

• Measures and analyzes performance from multiple perspectives (customer, staff, growth &
development, fiscal, etc.).

• Utilize hospital database management, decision support, and expert system programs to access
information and analyze data from disparate sources for use in planning of patient care processes
and systems.

Quality of Care:

• Ensures timely patient flow throughout the organization, monitoring the data and contributing to
process modifications and changes when needed.

• Designs safe clinical systems, processes, policies, and procedures.

• Interprets information from evidence-based nursing literature and research. Use research findings
for the establishment of standards, practices, and patient care models in the organization.

• Leads the development of multidisciplinary rounds for the medical-surgical units.

• Articulates the organization’s quality improvement program and goals. Sets target outcomes that
are evidence-based.

• Analyzes the root causes of variation from quality standards.

Qualifications

Education:

• Undergraduate nursing degree
• Master’s degree in nursing, health
  administration, or business

Experience:

• Five to seven years of professional
  experience
• Two to three years of leadership
  experience with evidence of successful
  change management
• Active member in a professional organization preferred

License(s)/Certification(s):

• Valid driver’s license when driving anyvehicle for work-related reasons
• Specialty certification preferred

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Knowledgeable about patient care and
  nursing practice across service lines
  and management principles and
  practices including performance
  management and performance
  improvement

  • Knowledge of Joint Commission, CMS,
  and state regulatory standards

  • Knowledge of the current healthcare
  environment and its impact on nursing
  practice