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Posted: 19-Jun-22
Location: Grand Junction, Colorado
Salary: Open
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Internal Number: 14542
You.
You bring your body, mind, heart and spirit to your work as the Associate Chief Nursing Officer at St. Maryâ™s Medical Center.
Youâ™re equally comfortable with leading people, increasing engagement, and aligning strategies with Performance Excellence initiatives.
Youâ™re great at what you do, but you want to be part of something even greater. Because you believe that while individuals can be strong, the right team is invincible.
Us.
St. Maryâ™s Medical Center St. Maryâ™s Medical Center is the largest and most skilled, experienced, and capable hospital between Denver, Colorado, and Salt Lake City, Utah. Founded in 1896, St. Maryâ™s is a patient-centered, non-profit hospital and part of the SCL Health system. The hospital offers the broadest range of medical and surgical diagnostic and procedural services, and is home to the highest level of acute care and clinically advanced services in the region. A responsible community citizen, St. Maryâ™s has consistently provided the largest investment in social health care and community infrastructure development since the regionâ™s founding. With nearly 350 licensed beds and over 2000 associates, St. Maryâ™s is home to the most skilled, diverse, experienced, and technologically advanced health care available to the people and communities of western Colorado and eastern Utah. St. Maryâ™s received an âœAâ Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group which announced the spring 2018 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades, focused on how safe hospitals keep their patients from errors, injuries, accidents and infections.
Benefits are one of the ways we encourage health for you and your family. Our generous package includes medical, dental and vision coverage. But health is more than a well-working body: it encompasses body, mind and social well-being. To that end, weâ™ve launched a Healthy Living program to address your holistic health. Healthy Living includes digital tools, classes, counseling and paid time off. We also offer retirement planning.
With this position, you are eligible to participate in the At Risk Compensation (ARC) Plan. This plan enables SCL Health to provide leaders with an additional performance compensation opportunity. The ARC Award opportunities are calculated as a percentage of your base salary. Awards are paid out based on attainment of selected SCL Health Board-approved goals. In addition, to show our commitment to you and to assist with your transition into our organization, we may also offer a sign-on and / or relocation stipend and reimbursement when applicable.
We.
Together weâ™ll align mission and careers, values and workplace. Weâ™ll encourage joy and take pride in our integrity.
Weâ™ll laugh at each otherâ™s jokes (even the bad ones). Weâ™ll hello and high five. Weâ™ll celebrate milestones and acknowledge the value of spirituality in healing.
Weâ™re proud of what we know, which includes how much there is to learn.
Your day
The Associate Chief Nursing Officer (ACNO) has responsibility and accountability for establishing and maintaining excellence in nursing practice, effectiveness and efficiency throughout nursing operations. This includes the implementation of innovation and transformation initiatives as delegated by, and reporting directly to the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) in order to facilitate the progression of the professional nursing practice. This requires knowledge and understanding of changes in health care delivery and health care finance, and the ability to integrate that information into the creation of value added models of care.
As the ACNO you need to know how to:
- Contribute to achieving exceptional patient outcomes that are sensitive to nursing care and improve the value in the care delivery systems in which the nurse's practice.
- Identify opportunities to improve the value of care and services to patients and families.
- Facilitate strategic planning under the oversight of CNO and is responsible for the implementation of organizational, care site, and nursing division goals.
- Possess knowledge, skill and ability to lead care site teams that are working toward key strategic organization and/or nursing division goals with and without a direct reporting relationship.
- Possess knowledge, skills and ability to lead change and transform culture through a variety of approaches that includes aligning, persuasion, thought leadership, motivating, inspiring and building consensus.
- Lead organization transformation efforts at the care site in collaboration with medical staff leaders and other care site leaders.
- Collaborate with the system leaders to facilitate nursing research and the application of evidence based practice at the care site.
- Possess knowledge, skills and ability to lead and conduct performance improvement including use of various performance improvement methods and approaches (i.e., Lean Six Sigma, PDSA)
- Possess skills and ability to mentor, coach, and develop a high performing team.
- Ability to establish relationships and partnerships across all levels, disciplines and practice specialties with a matrixed work environment.
Your experience
We hire people, not resumes. But we also expect excellence, which is why we require:
- BSN or MSN, required
- Masterâ™s degree, required
- Certification in Leadership; NE-BC or other applicable professional certification, preferred
- Membership in American Organization of Nurse Executives, American College of Healthcare Executives, and other professional organizations, preferred
- Current license of Registered Nurse in state of practice or licensure from another state with verification of application and eligibility for state of practice licensure by endorsement, required
- Five years of progressive nursing leadership including experience in clinical operations, required
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills and ability to communicate to all levels in the organization, required
Your next move
Now that you know more about being the ACNO on our team, we hope youâ™ll join us. At SCL Health youâ™ll reaffirm every day how much you love this work, and why you were called to it in the first place.
