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Assistant Vice President/Associate Chief Nursing Officer

_Are you looking for a rewarding career with family-friendly hours and top-notch benefits? We're looking for qualified candidates like you to join our Texas Health family._

+ Work location: Texas Health Alliance, Fort Worth, TX

+ Core work hours: Monday-Friday 8:00a-5:00p.

Texas Health Alliance

Texas Health Alliance is a 151-bed, full-service hospital located in North Fort Worth, providing trusted care since 2012. We offer convenient access to care for residents in Keller, North Richland Hills, Haslet, Roanoke, and surrounding areas.

We offer advanced services across wellness, outpatient surgery, women's imaging, and radiology-making our hospital a trusted destination for comprehensive care. Our facility has Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and Level III Trauma services. We're also Joint Commission-accredited and hold Disease-Specific Certifications for Acute Heart Attack Ready (AHAR) and Stroke care.

Texas Health Alliance is also designated as a Baby-Friendly Facility and a Pathways to Excellence hospital-demonstrating our ongoing commitment to high-quality, patient-centered care in North Fort Worth.

The Assistant Vice President/Associate Chief Nursing Officer has the following duties and responsibilities:

Leadership/Professional Development:

Serve as a mentor to staff in problem solving, decision making and planning activities. Facilitate nursing orientation and internships by working with educators as needed. Lead hospital or system committees, task forces or teams. Demonstrate accountability and responsibility by independently completing projects/assignments on time holding self and others accountable for meeting objectives and adhering to standards. Assist in monitoring nursing sensitive indicators and staffing effectiveness outcomes. Assist with policy development and practice guidelines to support evidence-based care delivery and practice for nursing. Pursues opportunities for personal growth and development through meetings and educational programs.

Professional Project and Operations Management:

Serve as leader in Magnet journey. Assist and provide oversight of nursing care delivery model and utilization of evidence-based research. Develop and promote varied change initiatives to enhance care delivery and professional performance. Assist in day to day operations of all nursing services.

Departmental Operations:

Ensures regulatory compliance standards are met, to include KPI benchmarks and all applicable policies, procedures and processes. Communicates plans and manages change effectively regarding department issues. Provides and promotes customer service (Patient, Employee and Physician Satisfaction). Assesses staff education and competency. Assesses patient safety needs and maintains a safe work environment and processes. Assist in the development of, and compliance with nursing clinical practice guidelines, standards of care and hospital policies and procedures.

Human Resources:

Understand and practice in accordance with Hospital and System policies. Actively engage in recruitment and retention strategies. Support unit practice council progress and/or development. Contribute to staff growth and development plans. Serve as role model and mentor. Recognize staff using Applause and verbal/written feedback. Provide formal and informal feedback to Nursing Directors regarding nursing staff performance. Maintain open, honest and effective communication among caregivers.

Customer and Interdepartmental Relationships:

Actively work to achieve excellent patient, physician and employee satisfaction scores. Use effective interpersonal skills to address patient/family complaints or concerns collaborating with an interdisciplinary team including physicians, staff and families as needed. Promote staff recognition. Lead or participate on teams to resolve problems or improve care involving more than one department.

Strategic Planning/Business Operations:

Provide oversight of operational and capital budgets for assigned departments/service lines. Assist in the budget process and development of nursing strategies to meet organizational goals. Facilitate and support effective scheduling of staff working with directors, house supervisors and staffing office to facilitate flexible scheduling to meet the needs of patients and staff. Monitor staffing productivity, identify and evaluate patient care requirements based upon acuity, staffing matrixes and budgetary guidelines, and monitor staffing variances. Incorporate workforce initiatives for a healthy work environment. Participate in the development of new programs and services to meet needs of patients, physicians and the community. Facilitate provision of equipment/supplies to support patient care and monitor costs and utilization.

Clinical Operations:

Actively participate in PI processes. Monitor for regulatory compliance and patient safety initiatives providing feedback as needed. Independently problem solve and meet needs of patient population. Participates in system task forces to standardize clinical processes.

Qualifications

Professional Experience/Qualifications:

Individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This role requires the ability to solve problems, think outside-the-box, and be resourceful; must be result-oriented, a quick learner and self-starter. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required to build THR's culture for action.

_Education and/or Experience:_

* Bachelor's Degree Nursing required

* Master's Degree in healthcare or business related field required; or Master's degree in Nursing required

* 5 Years hospital management experience required

* RN - Registered Nurse required upon hire

Certification in Nursing Administration or clinical specialty preferred upon hire

* Creative and strategic thinker with high ethical standards. Sound technical skills, analytical ability, good judgment, with a strong operational background. Articulate and able to interact successfully at all levels, strong conflict resolution skills.

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Why Texas Health?

At Texas Health Resources, our mission is 'to improve the health of the people in the communities we serve'.

As part of the Texas Health family and its 28,000+ employees, we're one of the largest employers in the Dallas Fort Worth area. Our career growth and professional development opportunities are top-notch and our benefits are equally outstanding. Come be a part of our exceptional team as we improve the health of the people in our communities every day. You belong here.

Learn (https://jobs.texashealth.org/why-texas-health/) more about our culture, benefits, and recent awards.

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