Director practice

It's more than a career, it's a calling

MO-SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital

Worker Type:

Regular

Job Highlights:

Named 150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare 2023 - Becker's Healthcare

Named One of America's Greatest Workplaces for Diversity 2023 - Newsweek

Named One of America's Greatest Workplaces for Women 2023 - 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 12,800 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, 13 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.

A Director of Advanced Practice will continue work to create specific reporting structure for APPs, ensure appropriate scope of practice, develop quality metrics, improve interdisciplinary communication, develop relationships with sister SSM SLUCare colleagues, streamline APP advocate efforts, both within SSM and at the state and national level, standardize the APP role within the various specialty services, improve recruitment, onboarding, training, and credentialing, supervise competencies, provide oversight of scope of practice, optimize APP documentation/billing and revenue processes to create an inclusive productivity model for the team, develop an APP clinical ladder to celebrate excellence and enhance APP retention. The APP director would ultimately improve the APP quality of care at Cardinal Glennon.

Having a coordinated group of APPs is imperative. APPs are embedded in quality improvement, at the bedside or in clinic, working with front line staff daily, learning, teaching and ingraining evidence-based practice into the care and outcomes we provide.

In line with SSM values, appropriate utilization of APPs can improve physician efficiency, decrease provider burnout, increase face-to-face time with the patient, increase access, assure fulfillment of core measures, improve patient throughput, and team satisfaction.

A long-term goal would be to recognized as an Advanced Practice Center of Excellence for institutional achievement in advanced practice, improving patient experience, enhancing advanced practice standards, policies and practice, attracting and retaining top APPs, fostering a collaborative culture and growing our business and financial success.

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

Jon Dirksen

Executive Talent Acquisition

#LI-Onsite

Job Summary:

Responsible for directing, planning, organizing, and managing of designated APP's with twenty-four hour accountability

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

Primary Responsibilities

• Directs the development and implementation of policies, procedures, strategies and services for assigned areas.
• Develops departmental goals and objectives consistent with medical, administrative, legal and ethical requirements of the health care delivery system.
• Plans, organizes and directs all activities related to staffing, including hiring, orienting, evaluating, disciplinary actions and continuing education initiatives.
• Directs and evaluates all clinical activities, including care plan development, service level determination, and complaint management to achieve performance and quality control objectives.
• Works collaboratively with providers, administration and Physician Practice Directors to develop streamlined operations where equipment, supplies and staff are utilized efficiently and resourcefully.

• Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education

• Master's degree from nationally accredited Nurse Practitioner program

Experience

• Seven years' experience, with five years' in leadership

Physical 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 

• Nurse Practitioner - Missouri Division of Professional Registration or Registered Nurse Practitioner - Missouri Division of Professional Registration

Licenses / Certifications:

Advanced Practice Nurse (APN) - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR), Advanced Practice Nurse Prescriber (APNP) - Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services, Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) - Oklahoma Board of Nursing (OBN), APN Controlled Substance - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR), Certified Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP-C) - American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), Full Practice Authority APRN Control Substance - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR), Full Practice Authority APRN - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR), Nurse Practitioner - Missouri Division of Professional Registration, Registered Nurse Practitioner - Missouri Division of Professional Registration

Work Shift:

Day Shift (United States of America)

Job Type:

Employee

Department:

Advanced Practice Providers

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

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