Perioperative Services Director - Sharp Metropolitan Medical Campus - PACU – Variable Shift – Full Time

Director Of Perioperative Services

Locations: San Diego, CA

Time Type: Full time

Shift Start Time: Variable

Shift End Time: Variable

AWS Hours Requirement: 8/40 - 8 Hour Shift

Additional Shift Information: Weekend Requirements: As Needed

On-Call Required: No

Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum): $92.300 - $119.090 - $145.890

The stated pay scale reflects the range that Sharp reasonably expects to pay for this position. The actual pay rate and pay grade for this position will be dependent on a variety of factors, including an applicant’s years of experience, unique skills and abilities, education, alignment with similar internal candidates, marketplace factors, other requirements for the position, and employer business practices.

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What You Will Do

Primary responsibilities include providing administrative oversight and direction for the perioperative continuum. This role is accountable for planning, directing, leading and growth of the pre-anesthesia (PAES), preoperative and postoperative care areas which comprise of seven patient care units supporting the three multi-room operating suites across the Sharp Metropolitan Medical Campus. The Director of Perioperative Services is responsible for assuring the highest quality of patient care and professional services, excellence in service delivery to patients, physicians, and team members, and optimal utilization of the facility. The director will nurture physician relationships, establish a strong working partnership with the operating room and procedural leadership teams, achieve established financial objectives, and identify opportunities for growth.

Required Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Nursing
• 5 Years clinical experience in surgical/perioperative services.
• 5 Years management experience.
• California Registered Nurse (RN) - CA Board of Registered Nursing -REQUIRED
• AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association -REQUIRED

Preferred Qualifications

• Doctorate in Nursing
• Union environment experience.
• Certified Ambulatory Perianesthesia Nurse (CAPA) - American Board of Perianesthesia Nursing Certification, Inc. -PREFERRED
• Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) - Commission on Nurse Certification -PREFERRED
• Certified Nurse Manager and Leader (CNML) - American Association of Critical Care Nurses -PREFERRED

Other Qualification Requirements

• Graduate degree is required upon hire or completed within six months of hire date. If candidate has BSN, then MSN or related graduate degree (MHA, MBA, MPH) is acceptable. If candidate does not have BSN, then graduate degree must be MSN.
• Six Sigma Green Belt preferred. Lean Six Sigma training preferred.

Essential Functions

• Key Responsibilities Promotes the mission, vision, and values of the organization. Organize services and systems necessary for the multidisciplinary approach throughout the continuum of care; assume responsibility for the clinical and financial performance of the department. Determines direction, goals, and objectives of assigned areas and ensures implementation for strategic and operating plans. Directs the development of short and long term plans and budgets for assigned areas. Develops, recommends and implements organizational policies and objectives. Responsible for the ongoing quality/performance improvement processes related to patient care. Ensure overall operations management, inclusive of cost management, quality of services delivered, employee and resources management, total care delivery, and contract services. Promote and support a collaborative team approach in providing care for all patients. Act as a liaison for the unit(s) and provides physicians, families, and ancillary departments with direction and/or assistance as needed. Support and interpret policies, procedures, philosophy and objectives of the hospital. Facilitate staff analysis and improvement plans for employee satisfaction workgroup. Monitor customer satisfaction scores and implements plans to improve them. Monitor patient volumes, quality of care, and performance of staff to identify areas for improvement. Develop and administers a budget; leads cost efficient and effective operations, creates plan of correction for any operating expenses that deviate from budget. Use problem solving and conflict resolution skills to foster effective work relationships with team members. Consistently and positively communicates with staff members, physicians, patients and visitors. Effective at working with and managing multidisciplinary teams.
• Service Holds self and others accountable for the meeting of customer satisfaction goals for assigned units or departments. Acknowledges dissatisfaction and follows through on agreements or actions. Aligns expectations with organizational vision and service-culture initiatives. Recognizes and initiates opportunities for improvement in patient/family service. Recognizes and initiates opportunities for improvement in physician service. Recognizes and initiates opportunities for improvement in employee service. Recognizes and initiates opportunities for improvement in interdisciplinary team member service. Leads action team in problem solving and innovating to improve customer satisfaction. Develops new area of expertise in the area of service competency.
• Quality Holds self and others accountable for the quality of patient care delivered and for operational excellence for assigned units or departments. Develops, sets and/or enforces regulatory and patient care standards of care in response to identified patient needs. Establishes specific quality goals, connecting the vision to the necessary actions and long term strategies. Demonstrates improved quality or operational outcomes due to intervention with other staff, clinicians or physicians. Recognizes physician needs and concerns and initiates opportunities for improvement. Recognizes patient needs and concerns and initiates opportunities for improvement. Develops new area of expertise in the area of quality competency.
• People Establishes and holds self and others accountable to meeting goals related to developing an effective workforce within assigned departments or units. Complies with all contract agreements and human resource, regulatory and organizational policies. Completes all manager initial, ongoing and/or annual competencies. Leads groups in developing and implementing strategic plan to implement organization vision and/or service-culture initiatives. Mentors others in developing new skills and assuming new responsibilities. Increases retention rate (or reduces turnover) of select group of staff. Facilitates the constructive resolution of intergroup/interdisciplinary conflict. Leads initiative that results in improved teamwork and/or building more effective relationships. Decreases occurrences of unsafe work practices and/or worker's injuries. Develops new area of expertise in the area of people competency.
• Financial Accountable for unit(s) financial goals as agreed upon with supervisor (e.g. expense per unit of service, productivity, salary dollars, supply costs, etc.) Recognizes and initiates opportunities for improvement in the financial performance of the unit or department Decreases costs of unsafe work practices and/or worker's injuries. Develops new area of expertise in the area of financial competency.
• Community Contributes to Sharp Healthcare's organizational vision, mission and values related to being a San Diego community partner. Donates time to community programs. Supports fundraising/donation initiatives. Recognizes opportunities for community partnership and initiates evaluation of benefits, costs and desired outcomes.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Affiliation with professional, National Association in specialty.
• Ability to exercise sound judgement in business decisions and to critically analyze and problem solve complex and global issues as well as manage solutions at a detailed level.
• Ability to facilitate and or lead large, diverse, multidisciplinary teams.
• Ability to collaborate and build partnerships with physicians, entity and system projects or work teams.
• Ability to provide high quality customer service to all customers served.
• Knowledge of regulatory and accreditation agency standards.
• Technical knowledge of organization and care delivery systems.
• Advanced computer skills and data analytics to include experience with electronic mail, spreadsheets, and various customer service database programs.

Sharp HealthCare is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability or any other protected class.