Administrative Director Of Nursing - St. Louis Children's at CoxHealth

Facility:

CoxHealth South: 3801 S National Ave, Springfield, Missouri, United States of America, 65807

Department:

1047 SLC-CH Pediatric ICU

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Hours:

Work Shift:

Day Shift (United States of America)

CoxHealth is a leading healthcare system serving 25 counties across southwest Missouri and northern Arkansas. The organization includes six hospitals, 5 ERs, and over 80 clinics. CoxHealth has earned the following honors for workplace excellence:

 

• Named one of Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to work five times.

• Named one of America’s Greatest Workplaces, Greatest Workplaces in Healthcare (2025, 2026), Greatest Workplaces for Women (2023, 2024), and Greatest Workplaces for Diversity (2024) by Newsweek and Plant-A Insights Group. 

• Acknowledged by Forbes as one of the Best Employers for New Grads.

• Healthcare Innovation's Top Companies to Work for in Healthcare (2025).

 

Benefits

• Medical, Vision, Dental, Retirement with Employer Match and more (20+ hrs/week)  

• For a comprehensive list of benefits, please click here: Benefits | CoxHealth

Job Description:

Coordinates and directs care given by other team members. Addresses system issues to facilitate the provision of quality efficient care. The incumbent provides oversight and management of operational, regulatory, and business processes across the system. The position leads their departments in facilitating change, fostering innovation and self-development to achieve excellence in operations, patient safety and quality. Excellent communication skills, leadership ability, time management, and problem solving skills required.

This position will overall all of inpatient and outpatient pediatrics, including PICU and NICU.Education:
▪ Required: Bachelor of Science in Nursing
Experience:
▪ Required: 3 - 5 years’ previous hospital or nursing management experience
Skills:
▪ Represents the departments on several process improvement, standardization, and regulatory committees
▪ Operates strategic plan by setting and monitoring key performance measures and goals
▪ Determines scope of care or service in relation to values, mission, and strategic plan of the institution
▪ Assist with developing their departments’ long term plans
▪ Working knowledge in human relations, customer service, inventory management, and budget management
▪ Ability to work with multiple people while meeting numerous requests and deadlines
▪ Goal oriented with initiative and potentials for self-development. Maintains organizational and priority setting skills
▪ Delegates appropriately to other team members
Licensure/Certification/Registration:
▪ Required: Nursing License active in the state of Missouri