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MO-SSM Health Mission Hill

Worker Type:

Regular

Job Highlights:

Named 150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare 2024 - Becker's Healthcare

Names One of the Diversity Leaders 2024 – Modern Healthcare

Named One of America's Greatest Workplaces for Diversity 2024 - Newsweek

Named One of America's Greatest Workplaces for Women 2024 – Newsweek

Names One of America’s Greatest Workplaces for Job Starters 2024 – Newsweek

 

SSM Health is a Catholic, not-for-profit health system serving the comprehensive health needs of communities across the Midwest through a robust and fully integrated health care delivery system. The organization’s 40,000 team members and more than 13,900+ providers are committed to providing exceptional health care services and revealing God’s healing presence to everyone they serve.
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With care delivery sites in Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wisconsin, SSM Health includes 23 hospitals, more than 300 physician offices and other outpatient and virtual care services, 12 post-acute facilities, comprehensive home care and hospice services, a pharmacy benefit company, a health insurance company and an accountable care organization. It is one of the largest employers in every community it serves.

 

To request additional information, confidentially submit your interest, or nominate a fellow colleague, please contact:

 

Jon Dirksen

Executive Talent Partner

jon.dirksen@ssmhealth.com

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Job Summary:

Supports SSM Health’s Mission through strategic initiatives overseeing enterprise-wide scheduling and labor management. Drives alignment between workforce planning, business transformation, and organizational priorities by leveraging data analytics, technology platforms, and cross-functional collaboration. Engages with executive leaders to ensures optimal labor utilization, cost-effectiveness, regulatory compliance, and consistent scheduling practices across all clinical and/or non-clinical functions. Provides leadership and oversight to ensure contingent labor programs are aligned with evolving organizational priorities and clinical and/or non-clinical workforce demands.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

Primary Responsibilities

Lead implementation of system standardization of scheduling practices that focus on delivering flexibility to the organization, improved experience, and decrease manual workload.Lead innovation of strategic scheduling practices that focus on delivering flexibility to our organization, creates stickiness to the organization and decreases the burden on manager tactical workload. Implements and ensures adherence to system operational improvements, including productivity management, staffing, and scheduling standardization, strategic plan initiatives and implementation. Responds to changes in the business which may affect the ability to reach budget goals. Evaluates and develops diverse employment options utilizing data analysis in alignment with workforce planning and business transformation to increase organizational efficiency and operating margin improvement.Engages in cross-functional collaboration with hospital leaders to align staffing strategies with patient care demands, operational goals, financial stewardship, and ensuring proactive workforce planning and optimal coverage.Implements transformative labor strategies to enhance overall workforce value. Provides extensive subject matter expertise and to executive leadership in implementing initiatives and development of sustainment/control plans for solutions related to scheduling/labor management.Performs other duties as assigned.

Education

Master's degree

Experience

Seven years' experience with demonstrated progressive leadership responsibility

Physician Requirements

Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.Frequent keyboard use/data entry.Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.Rare climbing.

Required Professional License and/or Certifications  

Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA) andRegistered Nurse (RN) - Missouri Division of Professional Registration or Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State  

Work Shift:

Day Shift (United States of America)

Job Type:

Employee

Department:

8726030033 Workforce Strategy and Operations

Scheduled Weekly Hours:40

Benefits:

SSM Health values our exceptional employees by offering a comprehensive benefits package to fit their needs.

Paid Parental Leave: we offer eligible team members one week of paid parental leave for newborns or newly adopted children (pro-rated based on FTE). 

Flexible Payment Options: our voluntary benefit offered through DailyPay offers eligible hourly team members instant access to their earned, unpaid base pay (fees may apply) before payday.

Upfront Tuition Coverage: we provide upfront tuition coverage through FlexPath Funded for eligible team members. 

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SSM Health is an equal opportunity employer. SSM Health does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Click here to learn more.