Director of Nursing Operations

St. Elizabeth Healthcare Edgewood, KY, US

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Job Type:

Regular

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💙 Why You’ll Love Working with St. Elizabeth Healthcare

At St. Elizabeth Healthcare, every role supports our mission to provide comprehensive and compassionate care to the communities we serve. For more than 160 years, St. Elizabeth Healthcare has been a trusted provider of quality care across Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. We’re guided by our mission to improve the health of the communities we serve and by our values of excellence, integrity, compassion, and teamwork. Our associates are the heart of everything we do.

🌟 Benefits That Support You

We invest in you — personally and professionally.

Enjoy:

- Competitive pay and comprehensive health coverage within the first 30 days.

- Generous paid time off and flexible work schedules

- Retirement savings with employer match

- Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities

- Wellness, mental health, and recognition programs

- Career advancement through mentorship and internal mobility

Job Summary:

St. Elizabeth Healthcare is hiring a Director of Nursing Operations within our Emergency Services department.

Shift/Hours: Full-Time – 40 hours/week, First Shift

Job Description:

The Director of Nursing Operations oversees nursing operations 24/7 across multiple facilities within the healthcare system, ensuring consistent quality care and efficient resource management. They lead service line strategic planning, develop system-wide nursing policies, and collaborate with other departments to align clinical and operational goals. Additionally, they manage budgets, staffing, and ensure compliance with regulatory standards, fostering a unified approach to patient care across the organization.

Operations
Directs and oversees a diverse team of managers/leaders of a system wide operational business unit Design/implement efficient services, offer revenue enhancements, monitor expenses, benchmark, encourage service excellence and provide effective communications Oversee staff hiring and development, evaluate job performance, offer constructive feedback, discipline as necessary, and provide ongoing coaching to ensure activities are performed within department and SEH policy Responsible for establishing short and long-range goals/objectives with key stakeholders through visioning which support the department, nursing and healthcare strategic plan. Actively supports the nursing shared governance structure and assures that staffs are involved in decision-making. Collaborates with system-wide leaders in strategic planning, decision making, goal setting, communication and coordination of patient care/ services, and allocation of resources. Directs and oversees development and implementation of policies and procedures utilizing current research, evidence-based clinical practice, professional clinical practice guidelines, national accreditation standards, and healthcare trends to develop evidence based protocols governing client/patient clinical care and activities. Maintains effective system-wide communication and collaboration with various departments and disciplines including physicians, patients, visitors and other stakeholders. Manages human resources to meet clinical needs of patients. Assures that models of care and clinical processes are consistent with any applicable state Nurse Practice Act, professional standards, St. Elizabeth Healthcare Nursing Professional Practice Model, and regulatory agency guidelines. Manages and provides supervision for contracted services

Patient Experience
Develop, promote, and maintain professional relationships to ensure an environment conducive to customer service and high-quality patient care. Ensures ongoing monitoring of patient satisfaction scores and works within the service lines across the system to establish customer service initiatives and goals. Ensure patient experience best practices such as AIDET, leadership rounding, bedside reporting, managing up, etc. are being maintained within areas of responsibility.

Quality
Establishes and maintains an ongoing performance improvement program for all services with the business units across the system that aligns with the healthcare system performance improvement plan. Monitors that all quality initiatives have a structured process in each area of responsibility to ensure meeting unit, service line, and organizational goals and sustaining results. Directs and provides oversight to maintaining compliance to specific business unit regulatory and accreditation standards.

Employee Engagement
Coach, empower, and mentor managers/leaders/staff across the system to support their professional and personal growth. Develop and support an effective communication process throughout all levels of the organization both intra and interdepartmentally. Supports and promotes effective physician communication and engagement with staff. Oversees and evaluates the development and implementation of all employee engagement tools to achieve and/or sustain departmental/facility/organizational goals

Professionalism
Demonstrates management and leadership skills in directing operational activities and strategic initiatives. Active in professional organizations on a local, regional and/or national level. Participates in hospital system activities to support department and healthcare system goals/initiatives. Participates in community benefit activities and outreach to enhance the visibility of the healthcare system and collaborative relationships. Ensure personal program growth and development through education and/or certification

Financial Accountability
Creates, implements, monitors, and controls designated operating and capital budgets for service lines across the system. Accountable for budgetary compliance to defined goals/targets and expected outcomes. Interprets and analyzes data to assess, plan, and develop capital/operational business performance which support system strategic plan. Monitors the adjustment of staffing to meet with needs of the patient demand ensuring staff productivity. Daily/Weekly/Monthly analysis, interpretation and reporting of financial management tools. Prepare, present, track and self-report all threshold capital/operational business plans.

Performs other duties as assigned

Qualifications
Education, Credentials, Licenses:
Bachelor’s degree in Nursing and Master’s Degree as applicable to area of assigned responsibility.
If eligible, must have a Compact (multi-state) License in their primary state of residence.
Licensed to practice nursing in the state where work is being performed.
Meets contact hour requirements for Licensure, including all state-required courses.

Specialized Knowledge:
Knowledge of management, change management and organization theory.
Ability to apply key principles in a clinical environment.
Serves as a coach and mentor in clinical area of expertise.
Budgetary experience.
Able to analyze and effect change.

Kind and Length of Experience:
5 years in a manager position

FLSA Status:

Exempt

Right Career. Right Here. If you're looking for the right careers in healthcare, the right place to be is at St. Elizabeth. Join us, and you'll take pride in the level of care we offer our community.

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