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Organization:

VPH Administration

Job Summary:

Vanderbilt Health - Executive Search Team is conducting a national search for a Director of Admissions, Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital.

The Director oversees and directs the complete admissions process and patient flow within the entity, ensuring efficient operations, high-quality patient care and adherence to regulations, while developing and implementing objectives and strategies to drive admissions, smooth patient flow between entities, and meet pillar goals and financial targets. Provides leadership to admission staff while cultivating an organizational culture (both within and across departments) that provides a safe, satisfying, and enriching environment. Provides guidance and expertise on patient demands and needs.

Department Summary:

The Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital (VPH) was founded as a psychiatric hospital for children and adolescents. The hospital has expanded its services and now provides services for children, adolescents, and adults. Residents in their PGY 1 and PGY 2 year spend time on each of the following acute inpatient units: Child, Adolescent, General Adult, Psychotic Disorders, and Addiction. Outpatient services include Partial Hospitalization Programs (PHP) and Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOP).

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Key Responsibilities:

+ Develops and implements departmental strategies aligned to institutional policies and goals.

+ Ensures effective execution of admissions processes.

+ Improves delivery of patient care by integrating admissions procedures with other care staff, including working with various departments across the institution and enterprise.

+ Defines and achieves financial targets in support of business and institutional goals.

+ Prepares annual operating budget for the department, including direct labor, material and supplies, services, equipment maintenance and replacement.

+ Creates and exceeds service standards utilizing key service dimension and from knowledge of patient/customer expectations and best practice.

+ Models behavior consistent with the mission, vision, and values of the enterprise through leading, coordinating projects, innovation, initiating improvement, and developing new programs.

+ The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned as needed.

Basic Qualifications

+ Bachelors Degree

+ 5 years experience (Required)

Preferred Qualifications

+ Master’s prepared (MBA, MHA, Social Work, etc.)

+ 7 years experience

+ Background in Behavioral Health leadership

+ 3 years direct experience in admissions functions within a behavioral health facility

TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES

+ PEOPLE MANAGEMENT (Advanced): Demonstrates the ability to create a positive work climate, establishing a feeling of partnership and empowers others. Practices and rewards behaviors supportive of company values.

+ OPERATIONS PLANNING (Advanced): Demonstrates ability to forecast complex resource needs, identify discrete tasks, set priorities, define dependencies, schedule activities, meet deadlines, and organize work for a department. Plans for and anticipates events outside of immediate responsibility. Identifies relevant stakeholders and gains their commitment. Anticipates problems and obstacles before they arise. Able to absorb changes to major assignments while maintaining a high level of performance.

+ QUALITY MANAGEMENT (Intermediate): Participates in continuous analysis and evaluation of assignment work processes, constantly striving for improvement in the way tasks and activities are accomplished by questioning their value to the process and contributing creative solutions. Participates in the process of establishing, communicating, and monitoring standards for quality and excellence.

+ BUSINESS RESULTS (Advanced): Develops and implements appropriate measures for attaining multiple business results and tracks progress in meeting goals and objectives. Builds an implementation network that includes key constituents such as peers, subordinates, top management, and customers.

+ COMPLIANCE (Intermediate): Understands the rules, regulations, sanctions and other statutory requirements, guidelines and instructions relating to governing bodies and organizations, both internally and externally.

+ LEADERSHIP (Advanced): Motivates and inspires others to perform at a high level. Communicates in a positive and constructive way, demonstrating an enthusiasm for team and unit goals. Attains results through influence, coaching, communication, and commitment with minimal use of authority and control.

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Core Accountabilities:

* Organizational Impact: Implements strategies for a sub function with direct impact to the function results.* Problem Solving/ Complexity of work: Resolves highly complex business issues that are often unprecedented that have immediate impact on own sub-function or entity and wider implications to the organization. * Breadth of Knowledge: Applies expertise within professional/technical area and uses advanced business knowledge to develop objectives.* Team Interaction: Leads a sub-function serving the organization at large or across one or more entity(s).

Core Capabilities** **:

Supporting Colleagues: - Develops Self and Others: Acts upon constructive feedback from all levels of the organization and initiates strategies to develop talent in others. - Builds and Maintains Relationships: Leverages relationships and insight to forecast potential future needs and influence delivery of work to exceed expectations. - Communicates Effectively: Anticipates difference audience concerns, styles and finds mutually beneficial solutions across conflicting and sensitive issues. Delivering Excellent Services: - Serves Others with Compassion: Demonstrates in-depth knowledge of broad-based issues and considers the interests of others to improve satisfaction of services. - Solves Complex Problems: Critically evaluates complex information and identifies trends/risks to make recommendations to improve processes across areas. - Offers Meaningful Advice and Support: Provides ongoing feedback and development discussions to motivate and support team members to maximize performance. Ensuring High Quality: - Performs Excellent Work: Anticipates problems or obstacles which may interfere with quality standards and develops plants to ensure area's quality standards are met. - Ensures Continuous Improvement: Routinely draws upon valuable learning from others, past experiences, and new information to determine key opportunities. - Fulfills Safety and Regulatory Requirements: Develops appropriate corrective actions for unsafe environments in order to ensure operational and safety compliance. Managing Resources Effectively: - Demonstrates Accountability: Identifies potential obstacles to goal achievement and develops solutions to address those obstacles. - Stewards Organizational Resources: Creates the appropriate systems and processes to effectively manage resources. - Makes Data Driven Decisions: Applies in-depth knowledge of data to recommend and implement new approaches to improve decision making capabilities. Fostering Innovation: - Generates New Ideas: Identifies opportunities and leads development of new initiatives that create value across areas. - Applies Technology: Creates the energy and drive for self/others to identify and leverage technology in new, innovative ways to drive greater efficiencies. - Adapts to Change: Anticipates the change process and clearly communicates impact on others/own team(s), assisting them in embracing the change.

Position Qualifications:

Responsibilities:

Certifications:

Work Experience:

Relevant Work Experience

Experience Level:

5 years

Education:

Bachelor's (Required)

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