Associate Chief Nursing Officer at SCL Health in Wheat Ridge, Colorado

Job Description:

You
You bring your body, mind, heart and spirit to your work as an Associate Chief Nursing Officer.
You know how to move fast. You know how to stay organized. You know how to have fun.
You're equally strong at developing and building strong teams and leaders, juggling many initiatives and requests, and remaining deadline and detail oriented.
You'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
Lutheran Medical Center is part of SCL Health, a faith-based, nonprofit healthcare organization that focuses on person-centered care. Our 249-bed community-based hospital provides comprehensive, specialty care to the poor, the vulnerable, our communities and each other. Dating back to 1905, we are proud of the rich history and inspiring mission our hospital has embodied for over 110 years.
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, we've launched a Healthy Living program to address your holistic health. Healthy Living includes financial incentives, digital tools, tobacco cessation, classes, counseling and paid time off. We also offer financial wellness tools and retirement savings plan.
As the ACNO, you would receive additional benefits including reimbursement for tuition, cell phone, professional dues and subscriptions. To show our commitment to you and to assist with your transition into our organization, we may also offer a sign-on or retention bonus and relocation assistance when applicable.
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.
We
Together we'll align mission and careers, values and workplace. We'll encourage joy and take pride in our integrity.
We'll laugh at each other's jokes (even the bad ones). We'll hello and high five. We'll celebrate milestones and acknowledge the value of spirituality in healing.
We're proud of what we know, which includes how much there is to learn.
Your day
The Associate Chief Nursing Officer is responsible for the direction of nursing and other patient care services for Lutheran Medical Center as assigned by the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO)/Chief Operating Officer (COO). This position assists in planning, organizing, implementing, and evaluating nursing/patient care programs, performance improvement activities, infection control initiative, and hospital-wide planning and regulatory compliance activities. The ACNO exercises authority over those associated with providing nursing care, treatment, and services and has the authority to speak on behalf of nursing to the same extent that other hospital leaders speak for their respective disciplines or departments.
As an Associate Chief Nursing Officer you need to know how to:

Monitor and evaluate all nursing care delivered to patients. Ensure nursing leadership provides assistance to Registered Nurses in evaluation of current nursing practice models designed to improve nursing care delivery. Manage and ensure appropriate nursing staff participates in quality, safety, performance improvement and service excellence programs.

Support the decision- making structure of the hospital, including governing body, management staff, medical staff and other clinical and support areas and assists in achieving institutional goals. Assure adequate support staff and services are available to nursing leadership to fulfill job requirements

Be responsible for financial and human resource management within the assigned departments and maintain broad administrative responsibility for departments reporting to the Vice President/ Chief Nursing Officer. Assist in formulating the budget and maintain efficient and effective departmental operations.

Provide leadership in assuring compliance with all local, state and federal regulations, laws, standards and protocols in addition to all regulatory agency requirements.

Your experience
We hire people, not resumes. But we also expect excellence, which is why we require:

Bachelor's in Nursing or Masters in Nursing required.

Master's Degree required.

Minimum of 5 years of progressive nursing leadership experience in clinical operations.

Exceptional written and verbal communication skills and ability to communicate to all levels in the organization.

Your next move
Now that you know more about being an Associate Chief Nursing Officer on our team we hope you'll join us. At SCL Health you'll reaffirm every day how much you love this work, and why you were called to it in the first place.