Nursing Director Surgical and Procedural Services

Serving the people of Montana, Wyoming, and the Western Dakotas for more than 125 years, St. Vincent offers primary care clinics in and around the Billings area, dozens of progressive specialty services, and our 286-bed facility has a special 'hospital within a hospital' just for children. Along with 1,400+ caregivers, St. Vincent employs 600+ physicians and advanced care professionals, whose work supports a multitude of specialties, such as Cancer Care, Heart & Vascular, Pediatrics, Women's Health, Orthopedics & Spine, Neurosciences, and Emergency & Trauma Care.

Along with offering a chance to work in a stable, strong, mission-based environment, this role provides the opportunity to experience Montana's diverse culture and incredible landscape. You'll be able to explore abundant outdoor recreational opportunities, including skiing, hiking, and fishing, as well as stunning national parks and forests, all within hours of where you'll call home. Becoming a part of the Intermountain team means gaining a family and finding a place to plant your roots.

Benefits are one of the ways we encourage health for you and your family. Our generous package includes medical, dental, and vision coverage. But health is more than a well-working body: it encompasses body, mind, and spiritual well-being. To that end, we've launched a Healthy Living program to address your holistic health. Healthy Living includes financial incentives, digital tools, tobacco cessation, classes, counseling, and paid time off. We also offer financial wellness tools and retirement planning.

With this position, you are eligible to participate in an annual pay-for-performance opportunity ('AP4P'). This plan enables Intermountain Health to provide leaders with an additional performance compensation opportunity. The AP4P opportunities are calculated as a percentage of your base salary. Awards are paid out based on attainment of selected Intermountain Health Board-approved goals.

To show our commitment to you and assist with your transition into our organization, we may offer a sign-on and relocation bonus when applicable.

As Nursing Director of Surgical and Procedural Services, you will:

• Oversee and direct day-to-day operations and in Surgical Services at St. Vincent Regional Hospital.

• Develop the strategic planning process, standards of care, and attainment of organizational goals.

• Direct collaborative problem solving among interdepartmental disciplines.

• Allocate available resources to promote efficient, effective, safe and compassionate nursing care based on current standards of practice.

• Create an environment of shared decision-making and professional autonomy by providing input into executive-level decisions, and by keeping managers informed of executive level activities.

• Implement the vision, mission, core values of the Nursing Philosophy of CARING and Intermountain Health's Healing Commitments.

• Remain accountable for the financial management of designated departments/service lines, which includes the development, implementation and monitoring of annual capital/operating and personnel (FTEs) budgets.

• Provide support and education to department managers for meeting financial goals.

• Model and foster an environment of professionalism, along with ensuring competent and sufficient number of leadership staff to meet department and patient care needs.

• Guide the development of recruitment, retention, and employee satisfaction that keeps high performers in place and maintains focus on succession planning.

• Act as a role model through the demonstration of personal professional development, continuous learning and competency improvement.

• Participate in and contribute to educational offerings and visibility in professional organizations.

• Assure the delivery of safe high-quality patient care through ongoing process evaluation and reviewing clinical outcome metrics.

• Implement clinical program protocols and ensure ongoing monitoring and process improvement occurs to assure goals are achieved.

• Collaborate with departments, physicians, service lines, and across the facility and region on benchmarks and best practices to ensure optimal patient care, along with medical directors and system colleagues in the development and implementation of clinical program goals.

• Participate in professional nursing organizations appropriate to position and service line.

• Assure that processes and programs are in place that supports the achievement of patient satisfaction and service quality goals.

• Act as a leader/mentor for staff in Healing Connections and promote department-based and service line research activities.

• Partner with physicians at the service-line level to achieve clinical, operational, and service goals.

• Participate in community outreach activities and supports staff participation in outside community organizations such as volunteer health clinics, health fairs and advisory boards for not-for-profit organizations.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Master's degree from an accredited university (or a willingness to obtain the master's degree within 3 - 5 years of hire) is required. Either the bachelor's or master's degree must be in Nursing. Degree will be verified.

• Three (3) years of nursing leadership is required.

• Highly prefer Surgical Services nursing leadership experience.

• A Montana RN License is required.

• Basic Life Support certification (BLS) for healthcare providers is required.

• Must have two (2) years clinical experience.

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