Director
Company: National Medical Association
Location: Nashville
Posted on: May 15, 2022
Job Description:
Description Job Summary: Provide overall leadership for a unit
or department by developing goals, objectives, policies and
procedures; supervising, coordinating, and evaluating the
activities; preparing operating and capital expenditure budgets;
and performing personnel administration functions. Additional Key
Elements/ Responsibilities:
- Develop goals and objectives for the department based on
interpretation of institutional policy and goals.
- Plan to achieve goals or establish priorities.
- Help department understand, share and support the vision
- Initiate changes in or develop new policies, procedures and/or
methods.
- Analyze long-range impact of decisions and plans.
- Ensure the most effective operations of the department through
program development, process improvement and
coordination/integration of processes with other departments.
- Design, implement, evaluate and market programs to maximize
clinical outcomes, functional status, patient/customer satisfaction
and reimbursement.
- Standardize services, processes, resources, and practice to
improve efficiency.
- Supervision to include responsibility for planning,
coordinating, and controlling the work and procedures; provide
advice/consultation to staff regarding problems
- Adjust work schedules or project priorities to meet emergencies
or changing conditions
- Participate on departmental and/or interdepartmental committees
to address problems and facilitate information exchange about
programs, problems, etc. Provide information to others (oral or
written) to explain/clarify problems, issues or requests.
- Participate in periodic management meetings to keep top
management informed of department problems and concerns
- Analyze and evaluate ongoing department programs to identify
areas where adjustments/improvements are needed
- Develop staffing plans to ensure developmental objectives are
being met.
- Define and achieve financial targets in support of business
goals of the institution.
- Prepare an annual operating budget for a unit or department,
including direct labor, material and supplies, services, equipment
maintenance and replacement
- Present and justify a proposed budget (operating and capital
expenditure) to a management review committee
- Evaluate organizational functions and structures to best
determine the allocation and utilization of resources
- Analyze and evaluate budget variance to determine cause,
- Prepare justification or develop alternatives for cost
containment/reduction
- Project future budgets based upon analysis of current
operations.
- Create and exceed service standards utilizing key service
dimension and from knowledge of patient/customer expectations and
best practice.
- Establish service standards for the department and determine if
service standards are compatible with financial targets.
- Ensure that the service standards are met or exceeded by
utilizing customer satisfaction, best practices and market
information to improve customer service and satisfaction.
- Create an organizational culture (both within and across
departments) that provides a safe, satisfying and enriching
environment for employees and provides a qualified, competent staff
to meet patient needs.
- Provide leadership to promulgate the mission and the values of
the institution to the department.
- Model behavior consistent with the mission, vision, and values
of the enterprise through leading, coordinating projects,
innovation, initiating improvement, and developing new
programs.
- Demonstrate a leadership style that is facilitative and
collaborative.
- Communicate within and across departments to maximize
effectiveness, efficiently and information sharing.
- Ensures all Human Resource and VUMC policies and procedures are
followed according to standards.
- Define the qualifications and performance expectations for all
staff positions through the Performance Development system,
including department specific job descriptions, measurable
performance standards.
- Create an environment that encourages and supports
self-development and learning for all staff through regular
feedback, by assuring the development of staff through orientation,
training programs, work experiences and assessing competencies by
meeting the performance expectations stated in his or her job
description in a timely manner (normally annually).
- Identify, establish and evaluate quality assurance standards,
programs, and procedures within department.
- Establish and evaluate standards of performance to ensure safe,
effective, and efficient operation of the department.
- Ensure that standards are met within area of responsibility to
assure clinical enterprise accreditation/licensure.
- Direct day to day operations of quality improvement goals and
projects at the system and local ambulatory clinic levels
- Guide data analyses to identify areas of opportunities using
statistical control charts
- Guide data collection/measurement activities to promote quality
improvement efforts Department/Unit Summary: Quality, Safety and
Risk Prevention (QSRP) equips and empowers VUMC faculty and staff
to offer care that is safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable
and patient-centered. The various teams within QSRP foster VUMC
knowledge sharing to extend best practice use, reduce variability
and facilitate improvements in outcomes. QSRP strengthens VUMC's
mission to create best patient care through education, research and
knowledge dissemination. Position Shift:
- First Shift View how Vanderbilt Health employees celebrate the
difference they make every day: \ Discover Vanderbilt University
Medical Center: Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a
global crossroads of teaching, discovery and patient care, VUMC is
a community of individuals who come to work each day with the
simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your
expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded and your
abilities challenged. It is a place where your diversity -- of
culture, thinking, learning and leading -- is sought and
celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of
something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in
their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday.
Vanderbilt's mission is to advance health and wellness through
preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research. VUMC
Recent Accomplishments Because we are committed to providing the
best in patient care, education and research, we are proud of our
recent accomplishments: * US News & World Report: #1 Adult Hospital
in Tennessee and metropolitan Nashville, named to the Best
Hospitals Honor Roll of the top 20 adult hospitals, 10 nationally
ranked adult specialty programs, with 3 specialties rated in the
top 10 nationally, Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at
Vanderbilt named as one of the Best Children's Hospital in the
nation, with 10 out of 10 pediatric specialties nationally ranked.
* Healthcare's Most Wired: Among the nation's 100 "most-wired"
hospitals and health systems for its efforts in innovative medical
technology. * Becker's Hospital Review: named as one of the "100
Great Hospitals in America", in the roster of 100 Hospitals and
Health Systems with Great Oncology Programs and to its list of the
100 Hospitals with Great Heart Programs. * The Leapfrog Group: One
of only 10 children's hospitals in the to be named at Leapfrog Top
Hospital. * American Association for the Advancement of Science:
The School of Medicine has 112 elected fellows * Magnet Recognition
Program: Received our third consecutive Magnet designations. *
National Academy of Medicine: 22 members, elected by their peers in
recognition of outstanding achievement * Human Rights Campaign
Healthcare Equality Index: 6 th year in a row that Vanderbilt
University Medical Center was a Leader in LGBTQ Healthcare
Equality.
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