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Job Details
Jefferson Bucks Hospital in Pennsylvania is now hiring for an Associate Chief Nurse Officer (ACNO)! This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing campus, market, and community. Reporting directly to the North Region CNO, this role defines, plans, implements, and monitors patient care delivery, fiscal management, human resource management and departmental operations for this 100 licensed bed hospital (including the ER.) This individual will take a leadership role in developing policy and standards for patient care services and operational goal attainment for Jefferson Torresdale Hospital.
Job Description
Essential functions for this role include, but are not limited to:
- Interacts with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the values of Jefferson.
- Coordinate and oversee the personnel management of all nursing units/departments. Manages through teams of Directors and Managers. Has authority to determine proper resource allocation within span of control. Typically serves as senior executive nurse of a specific hospital or leads a significant portion of an inpatient nursing region.
- Ensure the ongoing education, development and mentoring of nurse leaders within their purview
- Maintain effective relationships, communication and collaborations with other department directors and with hospital operations leadership to ensure daily operations and long range patient care strategies within Jefferson Health consistently meet all regulatory and patient care standards. Viewed as a key member of regional leadership team.
- Coordinate and oversee the operational and capital budgets of all inpatient units within span of control.
- Support and develop the professional practice environment supported by the tenets of ANCC Magnet/Pathway and the AACN Healthy Work Environment.
- Ensure units/departments comply with all regulatory agency standards and requirements
- Collaborate with the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) to ensure that all departments quality, safety, patient satisfaction, staff engagement and fiscal plans are developed, implemented and goals attained.
- Ensure implementation of enterprise and regional nursing strategies to achieve success in defined goals. Tracks and reports key quality, safety, experience and financial key performance indicators and directs actions plans accordingly.
- Demonstrates a commitment to working collaboratively to meet the needs of communities served.
- Supports professional development programs and promotes a culture of continuous learning, and appreciative inquiry.
- Communicates and shares information with staff on a regular basis. Keeps employees informed of new policies, procedures, new programs and other pertinent information relevant to nursing practice.
- Collaborate with the CNO to be responsible for the building and sustaining of a culture of accountability and assuring that nursing practices are based on tenets of patient and family centered care and high reliability throughout nursing and the organization.
Minimum Education and Experience Requirements:
- Education: MSN Required
- Experience: 8 years of inpatient progressive nursing and management experience
- Proven track record of nurse manager experience
- Appropriate RN Licensure
- Certification in Nursing Leadership and Clinical Practice are preferred
- Professional Nursing Organization Membership is preferred
Work Shift
Workday Day (United States of America)
Worker Sub Type
Regular
Employee Entity
Jefferson Health Northeast
Primary Location Address
380 North Oxford Valley Road, Langhorne, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.
Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.
Benefits
Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.
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