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Job Summary:

The Assistant Vice President (AVP) Nursing Services serves as the highest level nurse leader at Wellstar's Columbia County Hospital in Grovetown, Georgia. This leader will oversee the Nursing Leadership team and is responsible for assisting with performance excellence in Nursing Practice and Clinical Operations. This role supports the Regional Chief Nursing Officer and Chief Operating Officer. The focus of this role is to implement key initiatives and innovations that contribute to the plan, coordination and leadership of nursing and clinical performance in the provision of high quality cost-effective care delivering value to our patients and the communities that we serve.

The AVP Nursing Services works in partnership with site leaders to foster an interdisciplinary team approach to the overall delivery of care to patients, families, and the community. This leader brings an in-depth knowledge of nursing operations from a clinical, quality, practice, and emerging models of care perspective. This individual will partner with site nursing leaders to assess best-practice and opportunities to optimize to meet the needs of a large quaternary site.

The AVP of Nursing Services will assist with execution of quality initiatives and facilitate work that produces site benchmark performance in the nurse sensitive indicators and other quality indicators. The leader will implement action plans to improve and sustain patient experience measures that support a world-class experience. The AVP will collaborate with the site nursing leaders to ensure constant regulatory and accreditation readiness. The leader will assist with facilitation of a robust shared governance environment to prepare for the Magnet journey. The individual will partner with Talent Acquisition on the recruitment of talented staff and assist with retention efforts. The AVP will serve as a mentor for the Executive Directors of Nursing and nursing managers.

As a member of the Nursing team, this leader is responsible for ensuring that all regulatory laws that govern the hospital are upheld. It is expected this leader is licensed, knowledgeable and upholds the practice of nursing as outlined by the Georgia Professional Nurse Practice Act and implements the Scope of Practice and Code of Ethics Standards put forth by the American Nurses Association.

Required Minimum Education:

Masters of Nursing is required OR a Bachelors Nursing with a Masters degree is required.

Required Minimum License(s) and Certification(s):

All certifications are required upon hire unless otherwise stated.

RN-COMPACT - RN - Multi-state Compact or RN - Reg Nurse (Single State)

Required Minimum Experience:

Minimum of 10 years as a registered nurse is required.Minimum of 7 years progressive leadership in a manager or director role is required.Due to the patient volume, scope of services and complexity of patient acuity, strongly prefer a candidate with experience as a nursing executive in an executive director, VP or CNO role.

Required Minimum Skills:Should possess excellent verbal and written communication skills and relationship building, a knowledge of the health care environment, leadership that includes such skills as successfully implementing and managing a change process, ability to use systems thinking- and inspire, coach others to be successful, model the way for professional practice, professionalism and teamwork/collaboration for self/department/medical staff and possess necessary business skills to manage human and material resources.Must be a continuous learner who understands health care finance, strategy and operations for running a business unit(s) and effectively employ data and technology to support work processes and make decisions.Supports shared governance or shared decision making manage the design and delivery of care that is based on evidence and focused on quality and safety.Knowledge of risk management and various accreditation/regulations/licensing requirements assuring that these are upheld while advancing industry standards through the achievement of goals by effective management and measurement of outcomes

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