The Director, Perioperative Services, provides clinical leadership and direction for the surgical service line in collaboration with the Chief of Surgery and surgical leadership.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Ensures that team members promote an environment conducive and responsive to patient care based on current nursing research, evidence-based practice, and nationally recognized professional standards.
• Has 24-hour accountability and responsibility for coordinating and evaluating the provision of patient care and providing leadership and direction for employees.
• Recruits, trains and supervises clinical staff; initiating orientation, ongoing education and performance evaluations, and encouraging professional development.
• Recognizes, coaches, encourages and holds team members accountable to individual and team performance.
• Establishes and maintains positive physician relationships, works with physicians to meet key quality/core measure benchmarks.
• Responds to customer concerns and assures follow-up from appropriate individuals.
• Establishes and enforces policies and protocols to promote best practice and ensure compliance with regulatory agencies.
• Ensures compliance with established patient safety standards and evidence-based safety initiatives.
• Collaborates with enterprise leadership to achieve quality patient outcomes and seamless continuity of care.
• Provides consultation to relevant task forces, quality action teams and committees to ensure ongoing compliance with system-wide standards.
• Manages clinical budget to monitor expenses and identify opportunities for cost-effective service delivery.

Experience:
Seven years’ surgical experience, at least three in a supervisory or executive capacity required.

Physical/Work Requirements:
The physical demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is required to communicate effectively. Specific vision abilities this job requires include close vision for reading and computer work. The employee must lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move more than 50 pounds.

The work environment described here is representative of those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee works in an area with good lighting and climate control. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.