Director - Obstetrics

Mosaic Life Care is a health care system in northwest Missouri. With a vision of transforming community health by being a life-care innovator, Mosaic places the holistic needs of patients first by providing the right care at the right time and place, offering high value and quality health care.

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Details

• Director

• Obstetrics

• New Beginnings

• Full Time Status

• Day Shift

Summary

• The primary role of this position is to provide leadership, administrative direction, budget management and staffing for the patient care within labor and delivery, antenatal, postpartum, special care nursery, and normal nursery according to the Scope of Services for Obstetrics. This position in collaboration with his or her Vice President-assures that clinical, medical, administrative and support staff, have the tools and resources to ensure coordinated, safe, quality care patients, newborns and their families.
  
  The Director provides clinical direction for nursing personnel and is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the department. This position ensures the delivery of safe care in compliance with regulatory standards.

• This position is employed by Mosaic Health System.

Duties

• Vision. The Director works in collaboration with the department Medical Director to articulate a vision for the future direction of the department, and assures that every decision made advances the department toward that vision.
  
  This leader is knowledgeable of national trends and applies this knowledge to benefit the department; anticipates changes that will be required to realize the vision; and guides transformation in a systematic, inspirational manner. The Director is a thought leader and expert regarding his or her department and is a valued internal resource for this knowledge.Cross-functional teams and a work team will be formed and facilitated by Directors for processes that impact Similarities of Service.

• Building Partnerships. A primary role for the Director is to build highly effective partnerships with key stakeholders of the department.
  
  In addition to the Medical Director, the Director works with peers, medical staff, department caregivers, organizational leaders, and caregivers in staff roles to accomplish department goals. This is accomplished through a combination of pro-active rounding approaches and informal relationship-building.Provides resources for team members to design improvements that focus on one high level of care for the patient populations served by each service team.

• People Development. The Director accomplishes his or her goals through effective selection, development and coaching of the caregiver team.
  
  The Director continually seeks and applies best practice approaches in providing feedback through formal monthly and annual performance reviews and regular informal conversations. The Director uses critical conversations techniques to retain and grow high performers; to provide clarity and development for middle performers; and to improve or deselect low performers-continually seeking to improve both the clinical, administrative and behavioral skills of front-line caregivers. The Director sees self, medical staff, and front-line caregiver development as an integral obligation and function of his or her role. The Director understands his or her role as a model for HEART behaviors.

• Performance Management. The Director leads, administers and improves all aspects related to performance outcomes for the department-assuring achievement of top decile performance in quality, safety and stakeholder satisfaction and lower quartile performance in cost.
  
  The Director collaborates with the service line dyad and his or her medical director partner to establish annual and ongoing measures of service line performance and assures alignment to expected department and service line measures. This leader understands the disciplines of performance measurement and management, and uses disciplined high-accountability approaches to accomplish goals. The Director engages direct report leaders, front-line caregivers and medical staff in understanding, prioritizing and deploying best practice performance improvement methodologies to assure top performance outcomes.

• Quality and Safety. The Director-in partnership with his or her medical director-is a key advocate to assure services by clinical, ancillary and physician providers are carried out with the highest attention to quality and safety.
  
  This leader clearly communicates the organization's agenda for patient safety and transparency. The Director works in collaboration with the medical director to set priorities for process improvement, evaluates staffing to assure quality and safety is attained, and assures quality and safety performance meets regulatory and organizational standards. The Director specifically assures compliance with JCAHO, Missouri Department of Health, and other local regulatory bodies.
  
  This leader participates in the RCA process and risk reduction strategies for the department. The Director is participates on teams to prioritize and resolve quality and safety issues, and assures that internal work teams are clear on priorities and resources.

• Administrative Function. The Director works with the Vice President, financial analysts and decision support personnel to contribute to and monitor the department operational budgets.
  
  The Director works with his or her Medical Director, medical staff, leaders and others to define equipment, supply, labor and other resource needs, helps prioritize among competing needs, and works with the Vice President to finalize annual budget. The Director also engages medical staff and care givers in assuring information technology meets the clinical and decision support needs of the department.

• Evidence-Based Leadership. The Director continually gathers information from a variety of sources: patients, family members, caregivers, leaders, medical staff and others to identify critical issues and problems and to develop breakthrough solutions.
  
  This leader continually seeks knowledge related to best-practice, evidence-based leadership approaches and engages others through teaching, feedback and encouragement. The Director navigates through difficult, complex situations-helping to resolve ambiguity and inspire others to their best performance-assuring effective communication and collaboration with the department or unit medical director.

• Other. The Director participates on a variety of multi-disciplinary, cross-functional teams and committees to represent the department and to contribute to broader organizational outcomes. The Director may attend national conferences and education to continuously develop own capabilities and to maintain knowledge of national trends.

Qualifications

• All required education is a minimum requirement. Higher levels of education are acceptable.
  
  Graduate from an accredited school of nursing required. Bachelor's Degree- Nursing, clinical, or business discipline or actively enrolled in an accredited college required. Master's Degree Nursing or Business preferred.
• RN - Registered Nurse

• State Licensure And/Or Compact State Licensure depending upon designated work location within 90 days is required. NRP - Neonatal Resuscitation Program within 180 days is required.

• 5 Years Nursing experience in the specialty of OB or Nursery/NICU is required. 3 Years Nursing leadership experience in an acute care hospital setting is required.