Vice President of Acute Care Patient Care Services

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Children's Hospital Colorado has defined and delivered pediatric healthcare excellence for more than 100 years.

Here, the nation's brightest nurses, physicians, scientists, researchers, therapists, and care providers are creating the future of child health. With an optimist's outlook, a trailblazing spirit, and a celebrated history, we're making new strides every day.

We've been Magnet-designated four times by the American Nurses Credentialing Center and are consistently recognized among the best of the best pediatric hospitals with #1 rankings in Colorado and the region by U.S. News & World Report.

As a national leader in pediatric care, we serve children and families from all over the nation. Our System of Care includes four pediatric hospitals, 11 specialty care centers, 1,300+ outreach clinics and more than 10,000 healthcare professionals representing the full spectrum of pediatric care specialties.

Here, we know it takes all of us, every role, to deliver the best possible care to each child and family we treat.

That's why we build our teams toward a foundation of equity in access, advancement, and opportunity. We know teams of individuals with different identities and backgrounds can nurture creativity and innovation. We know we can see, treat, and heal children better when our team reflects the diversity of our patient population. We strive to attract and retain diverse talent because we know a truly inclusive and equitable workforce will help us one day realize our most basic calling: to heal every child who comes through our doors.

A career at Children's Colorado will challenge you, inspire you, and motivate you to make a difference in the life of a child. Here, it's different.

Children's Hospital Colorado is seeking a visionary and accomplished Vice President for Patient Care Services, with a focus in Acute Care Services.

The Vice President Patient Care Services will partner with Divisional VPs in providing strategic and operational leadership for the Division of Patient Care Services. In addition, they will focus on a System strategy for Acute Care Services, advancing clinical practice and operations to achieve exceptional patient outcomes in a dynamic academic healthcare environment. Services include:

• Medical/Surgical services encompassing Acute Care specialties
• Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders including inpatient and infusion services
• Ethics program
• Clinical Operations departments including Clinical Resource Team (Float Team), OneCall (Transfer Center) and Vascular Access Services.

This leader will be a key member of the executive leadership team, collaborating with clinical, academic, and administrative leaders to ensure the highest standards of care, patient safety, and nursing excellence.

Department Name: Acute Care Services
Job Status: Full Time, 40 hours/week
Shift: M-F business hours with 24/7 accountability

Minimum Salary: $239,600 - The salary for the position varies based on the candidate's qualifications and experience.

EDUCATION: Master's degree in health-related field

EXPERIENCE: Five (5) years of nursing clinical experience and five (5) years of leadership experience over clinical operations and staff required. Applicants with clinical and/or leadership experience related to area of specialty (Acute Care), Pediatric experience, and/or Academic Healthcare experience preferred.

CERTIFICATION(S): An ANCC recognized certification. Nurse Executive or Nurse Executive Advanced required within 12 months of hire. Active member in a nursing or professional healthcare organization.

LICENSURE: Registered Nurse

POPULATION SPECIFIC CARE

No direct patient care.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Strategic Leadership: Develop and implement strategic plans to enhance nursing and clinical practice, operational efficiency, and patient outcomes in critical services
• Operational Oversight: Oversee operations of critical services, ensuring alignment with the hospital's mission, vision and goals.
• Team Development: Recruit, mentor and retain top nursing and clinical talent while building high performing teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, professional growth, and accountability
• Clinical Excellence: Promote evidence-based practice, innovation, and quality improvement initiatives to advance pediatric nursing and clinical care
• Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Partner with physicians, researchers, community partners, and administrative leaders to integrate clinical care, education and research
  

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

An employee in this position may be called upon to do any or all of the following essential functions. These examples do not include all of the functions, which the employee may be expected to perform

• Collaborates with the Chief Nurse Executive (CNE) and Patient Care Services leaders across the system to develop a system-wide vision for the division, ensuring alignment with the larger system vision and strategy. Drives performance outcomes for clinical and nursing functions, while ensuring alignment with the system-wide vision and strategy for patient care services.
• Participates in leadership activities for the system, contributing to the achievement of goals and objectives; serves as a champion of organizational culture, influencing culture change to support organizational objectives.
• Oversees the execution of operational policies that guide system-level patient care and service delivery; serves as executive sponsor on major projects; provides advice and guidance to senior leadership on the operational impact of strategic initiatives; handles operational and customer service escalations.
• Develops and oversees functions and services to meet system needs, to include creating and maintaining organizational design for designated clinical and nursing functions and reviewing and approving resource plans.
• Manages communications across the system on nursing and clinical operations and outcomes within Patient Care Services. Maintains effective working relationships with executives across the system to drive performance towards the system's strategic plan; builds and maintains relationships with external stakeholders and community groups to support both operational and organizational strategic initiatives.
• Assigns and reviews annual goals and strategic goals; provides work instruction, coaching, mentoring and development to leaders. Evaluates performance of leaders, providing continuous feedback and maintaining succession plans. Manages discipline and performance issues; hires and terminates leaders.
• Carries overall financial management responsibility for nursing and clinical functions, reviewing and approving recommendations made by leaders for assigned areas, departments, and units.
• Ensures compliance against federal, state, and local regulations for operations, to include accountability for accreditation readiness for assigned areas, departments, and units.
• Serves as the administrator on-call as designated.

• GUIDELINES: Guidelines are in the form of stated mission and vision for organization and legal and professional regulations and objectives.
• COMPLEXITY: Work assignment is unstructured, and leader is responsible for establishing and directing the mission, vision and objectives of the organization. Duties performed include organizational planning; developing standards, priorities, guidelines, measurement (evaluation) systems; implementation of production and performance management standards; and allocating resources. Work is visionary and strategic in nature.
• DECISION MAKING: Employee is responsible for directing the organization, which requires developing and implementing strategies, objectives, and policies; defining an organizational structure and required resources; establishing organizational performance standards; and providing leadership for the organization and the community.
• COMMUNICATION: Communication at this level is primarily externally focused. Involves establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with executives, board of directors, and community partners. Serves as the principal representative accountable to community-based organizations, the business community, and/or the public for critical issues that affect the organization.
• SUPERVISION RECEIVED: Responsible and accountable for driving strategy and achieving results for organization. Work is reviewed for the attainment of vision and strategic goals

Ability to Perform Essential Functions of the Job

• Audio-Visual: Color Discrimination: Good
• Audio-Visual: Depth Perception: Good
• Audio-Visual: Far Vision: Fair
• Audio-Visual: Hearing: Good
• Audio-Visual: Near Vision: Good
• Use of Hands/Feet: Both Hands - Precise Motor Function (Or Fine Manipulation)
• Weight Lifted/Force Exerted: Up to 10 pounds: Up to 1/3 of time

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• Exposure: Exposure to chemicals: Occasional.
• Mental and Emotional Requirements: Independent discretion/decision making.
• Mental and Emotional Requirements: Makes decisions under pressure.
• Mental and Emotional Requirements: Manages stress appropriately.

It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. Be aware that none of the questions are intended to imply illegal preferences or discrimination based on non-job-related information.

The position is expected to stay open until the posted close date. Please submit your application as soon as possible as the posting is subject to close at any time once a sufficient pool of qualified applicants is obtained.

Colorado Residents: In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.

Here, you matter. As a Children's Hospital Colorado team member, you will receive a competitive pay and benefits package designed to take care of your needs that includes base pay, incentives, paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, company provided life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, 403b employer match (retirement savings), a robust wellness program, and access to professional development tools, including an education benefit to help you advance your career.

As part of our Total Rewards package, Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April.

Children's Colorado delivers annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on their performance over the previous year.