Chief Clinical Officer

SUMMARY:

The Chief Clinical Officer (CCO) has overall authority for providingleadership, direction, and administration of direct patient care activities,nursing practice, and nursing education and development across theorganization. The CCO is responsible for driving, supporting and modeling aculture focused on employee engagement, quality, patient safety, fiscalresponsibility, and the overall patient experience.
The CCO also has overall authority formanagement, development and guidance for regulatory, legal and complianceacross the organization.

ESSENTIALDUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enableindividuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Strategizes and drives process improvements focused on innovative care delivery and/or operational models designed to improve clinical services, outcomes, patient throughput, and patient safety
• Promotes the use and implementation of technology in the workplace in order to streamline operations, facilitate communications, and optimize work processes
• Collaborates with other disciplines for the implementation of programs, policies, and procedures that address how patient care needs of the patient population served are assessed, met, and evaluated
• Ensures patient and family centered care is comprehensive and coordinated and monitored for effectiveness through the quality improvement model that leads to systematic improvements over time resulting in outcomes measures that outperform benchmark statistic of national database used in patient and nursing sensitive indicators
• Promotes interdisciplinary collaboration with clear expectations and direction to all practicing nurses about the importance of partnerships with patient and families, and with all disciplines to ensure a comprehensive care plan
• Enhances quality outcomes by partnering with leadership for shared clinical decision making, but has overall responsibility for all of patient care
• Serves as a member of the executive leadershipteam, building and supporting effective collegial relationships with applicableinternal and external constituents and stakeholders and ensuring optimaloperating effectiveness and strategic positioning
• Approves nursing policies, nursing standards of patient care, treatment and services
• Directs employees in regulatory compliance and maintains the effectiveness of the Corporate Compliance Program
• Develops risk management controls and systems
• Designs processes to eliminate or mitigate potential risks
• Creates contingency plans to manage crises
• Identifies potential threats and creates plans to prevent and mitigate problems
• Practicing and adhering to the "Code of Conduct" philosophy and "Mission and Value Statement."
• Performing other duties as assigned

COMPETENCIES:

• Strategic Thinking
• Business Acumen
• Leadership
• Results Driven
• Financial Management
• Problem Solving/Analysis
• Collaboration Skills

WORKENVIRONMENT:

This job operates in a professional officeenvironment. This role routinely usesstandard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filingcabinets.

PHYSICALDEMANDS:

While performing the duties of this job, the employeeis regularly required to talk and hear. This is largely a sedentary role.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree nursing plus a minimum 5+years of experience in clinical nurse management in the long term carebusiness
• Currently licensed as a registered professionalnurse in the state in which he or she practices, in accordance with law andregulation
• Working knowledge and proven experience inmanagerial and administrative techniques
• Minimum of seven years' experience in health care facility administration
• Possession of an advanced degree in a relatedfield desirable