Chief Nursing Officer Newark Campus

At ChristianaCare, we serve as our neighbors as respectful, expert, caring partners in their health.

We do this by creating innovative, effective, affordable systems of care that our neighbors value.

Supporting this mission, we seek a Chief Nursing Officer, Newark Campus. The CNO ensures an integrated, collaborative approach toward providing exveptional quality care that is fully coordinated and efficient in service of our neighbors' healthcare needs. These goals and objectives are achieved in close collaboration and synchronization with the initiatives of system wide nursing leadership in order to ensure a unified nursing strategy across the entire ChristianaCare Community.

The successful candidate will have a high standard of expertise related to successful Hospital operations, possess experience and confidence to be a change agent, and the ability to build good relationships. If this role sounds intriguing please apply ChristianaCare benefits: ChristianaCare offers an annual incentive bonus and a collegial space where innovation is valued.

We offer incredible Work/Life benefits including annual membership to care.com, access to backup care services for dependents through CareWork, retirement planning services, financial coaching. Fitness and wellness reimbursement, and phenomenal discounts through several vendors for hotels, rental cars, theme parks, shows, sporting events, movie tickets and much more. Our medical/dental/vision benefits are available to our caregivers on their first day of employment And we offer two different mechanisms toward planning for your retirement, a 403(b) and a defined contribution plan.

Principal duties and responsibilities: Ensures the delivery of safe, high quality, patient centric care while continually evaluating care deliver against ChristianaCare’s strategic aims. Review and evaluate patient experience, report on existing state and build /implement/run a robust sustainable plan to improve outcomes.

Build and maintain through collaborative interdisciplinary relationships, drive efficiencies in patient throughput for optimum delivery of care to the community. Provide leadership, mentorship, direction, motivation and career development of the nursing leadership team to ensure their professional/career growth. Actively participate in the development and modification of campus and system-wide patient care programs and procedures that describe how the nursing care needs of the patient populations are assessed, evaluated and met.

Education and experience requirements: Master's degree in Nursing is required, an MHA, MBA and/or a doctoral degree is desireable but not required. Certification in nursing leadership and/or clinical specialty is required.

Minimum of 5 years progressive management experience required, ideally in a large, sophisticated healthcare system or other large organization. Experience with influencing goals and strategies through a highly matrixed environment. Fiscal acumen proven through the development of annual budgets reflecting staffing, capital and other operating expenses, and successful management of those budgets.

Eligible for a State of Delaware RN License. ChristianaCare is one of the country’s most multidimensional health systems, centered on improving health outcomes, making high-quality care more accessible and lowering health care costs. Christiana Care includes an extensive network of outpatient services, home health care, medical aid units, three hospitals (1,300 beds), a Level I trauma center and regional centers of excellence in heart and vascular care, cancer care and women’s health.

We rank 21st in the nation for hospital admissions. ChristianaCare is a not-for-profit teaching health system with our outstanding, data-powered care coordination service and a focus on population health and value-based care, ChristianaCare is crafting the future of health care. Working for Christiana Care offers the best of urban and suburban living with multiple housing options, excellent restaurants and entertainment venues, quality schools and a short driving distance to popular Delaware and New Jersey beaches. The location provides easy access to Washington, DC, Philadelphia and New York City – all within a short drive or train ride from Newark, DE.