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Director Neuroscience SGH

Job ID JR159383 Date posted 02/26/2025
La Mesa, California
  • Grossmont Hospital
  • Day
  • Regular
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Overview

At Sharp, being a nurse means transforming the health care experience for your patients, for your colleagues and for yourself. In a collaborative environment with state-of-the-art facilities and advanced clinical practices, we encourage you to follow your passions wherever they take you.

As a recognized leader in nursing excellence with Magnet® recognitions for high-quality, patient-centered care, we invite you to join us in providing health care the way it should be. We offer a wide variety of nursing positions — from RNs and clinical nurse leads to case managers and clinical nurse specialists.

Success Profile

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  • Innovative
  • Collaborative
  • Resourceful
  • Advocate
  • Person-centered
  • Critical Thinker

Job Details

Job ID JR159383

Hours:

Shift Start Time:

Not Specified

Shift End Time:

Not Specified

AWS Hours Requirement:

8/40 - 8 Hour Shift

Additional Shift Information:

Weekend Requirements:

As Needed

On-Call Required:

No

Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum):

$89.396 - $115.349 - $141.303


The stated pay scale reflects the range that Sharp reasonably expects to pay for this position.  The actual pay rate and pay grade for this position will be dependent on a variety of factors, including an applicant’s years of experience, unique skills and abilities, education, alignment with similar internal candidates, marketplace factors, other requirements for the position, and employer business practices.



What You Will Do
This position provides leadership and operational direction for multifunctional clinical and administrative areas for Sharp Grossmont Hospital. The position is accountable for planning, directing and coordinating the operations and system integration of all departments that report to them.

Required Qualifications
  • Master's Degree
  • 5 Years management, service line, program management/coordination, and/or Neuroscience experience.
  • 7 Years experience in health care organizations.
  • California Registered Nurse (RN) - CA Board of Registered Nursing -REQUIRED
  • AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association -REQUIRED

Other Qualification Requirements
  • Graduate degree is required upon hire or completed within six months of hire date. If candidate has BSN, then MSN or related graduate degree (MHA, MBA, MPH) is acceptable. If candidate does not have BSN, then graduate degree must be MSN.
    • Licensure for area of expertise preferred.

    Essential Functions
    • Key Responsibilities

      Oversees construction of the new Neuroscience Center from a clinical operations perspective.
      Directs the strategic planning for assigned areas.
      Determines direction, goals, and objectives of assigned areas, and ensures implementation of strategic and operating plans. Directs the development of short and long-range plans and budgets for the assigned areas.
      Develops and recommends overall organizational policies and objectives within assigned areas, and ensures their implementation. Ensures organizational compliance with legislation and regulations as they impact assigned areas. Ensures compliance with CSC Certification.
      Responsible for ensuring ongoing problem identification and problem solving for assigned areas, and diffuses any crisis issues through proactive and strategic decision making processes.
      Ensures overall operations management , inclusive of cost management, quality of services delivered, employee and resource management, total care delivery, contract services, and applicable outside relationships.
      Collaborates with Interdisciplinary Team to standardize, update and/or maintain policies and procedures.
      Logistical management of all operational components to deliver quality care/services.
      Manages diverse group of multilevel employees for assigned areas.
      Achieves superior financial, quality, customer services, and clinical outcomes.
      Directs performance improvement for assigned areas and integrates it with other disciplines, nursing departments and entities within the system, as appropriate.
    • Quality
      Maintains quality outcomes through use of clinical expertise, and effective supervisory skills.
      Participates in both unit and level of care quality assurance process.
      Reviews or coordinates the review of quality variance reports for designated unit or units, identifies trends, and develops action plans for resolution.
      Identifies and trends learning needs of staff and works with supervisory and educational personnel to assure needs are met.
      Assures that the standards of care are implemented and evaluated, and updated.
      Assures delivery of quality care that meets all accreditation and regulatory standards.
      Reviews, revises, develops, and maintains safety policies and procedures related to department activities and work environment. Reviews current operations and assesses proactively with Biomed, Risk Management and others to ensure ongoing compliance.
    • Financial Management
      Maintains operating unit or units within budgeted cost per UOS. Develops achievable action plans when actual exceeds budgeted cost per UOS.
      Contributes to the identification of and operationalizes cost reduction measures or identifies revenue enhancing opportunities.
      Develops financial analysis of new programs and services to ensure financial viability and fiscal impacts.
      Maintains unit and or unit’s productivity as outlined yearly.
      Participates in annual budget development.
      Develops business growth plan with administration and physicians.
      Develop marketing plan for Neurosciences Services.
    • Human Resource Management
      Assures that staff performance appraisals are conducted in a timely manner.
      Coaches, counsels, and institutes developmental and corrective action plans as necessary.
      Assures appropriate staff and skill mix for optimal unit functioning.
      Assures that all pertinent information is provided to staff through staff meetings and other forms of formal and informal communication.
      Enable staff to participate in scheduling and staffing. Assure schedule is posted within designated time frame.
      Assists staff to access services provided by Human Resources, EAP and EQD.
      Maintains up-to-date employee records.
      Along with recruitment, develops a Neuroscience Services recruitment plan.
    • Customer Service
      Consistently communicates in a positive and timely manner with staff members, Sharp employees, physicians, patients and visitors.
      Develops collaborative relationships with other departments, entities, healthcare committees, physicians, and other agencies to facilitate and support quality services and financial viability of departments.
      Handles problems in a professional and proactive manner.
      Demonstrates teamwork, cooperation and responsiveness.
      Trends patient satisfaction and implements action plans as necessary to achieve patient satisfaction.
      Identifies and trends the needs of the customers served within SHC service line and implements action plans as necessary to achieve customer satisfaction.
    • Professional Responsibility
      Develops and achieves goals on a yearly basis.
      Belongs to, attends and/or participates in professional related organization(s).
      Participates or attends formal conferences or seminars.
      Participates in community advisory board, task force, or other activities.
      Facility or departmental tour participation.
      Other special projects.
      Represents service line on system wide committee.

    Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
    • Specialized, theoretical and technical skills acquired through education and experience.
    • Managerial/Supervisory skills-demonstrated ability to remain flexible in rapid change environment and current health care dynamic climate. Two or more years in a leadership position. Demonstrated ability to plan, design and implement and evaluate one’s own work and to work independently with minimal observation or supervision.
    • Human Relations skills-demonstrated ability to communicate clearly and effectively and to work collaboratively with multiple others of diverse cultures, education background, experience, etc. Demonstrated knowledge of team building skills and principles of self managed work teams.
    • Political Process skills-ability to function well under condition of current environment; ability to collaborate with multiple others; ability to build partnerships with physicians and others.

    Sharp HealthCare is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability or any other protected class


    Our Mission and Values

    At Sharp, our mission is to improve the health of those we serve with a commitment to excellence in all that we do. We aim to offer quality care and services that set community standards, exceed patients’ expectations and are provided in a caring, convenient, cost-effective and accessible manner.

    We have a vision to transform the health care experience through a culture of caring, quality, safety, service, innovation and excellence. Our goal is to be the best place to work, the best place to practice medicine and the best place to receive care.

    Our team members are the driving force behind our mission and vision. At Sharp, we’re focused on providing an environment that will meet the needs of both our patients and our employees. Our team members are encouraged to connect with their passions and recommit to the purpose of their work each day.

    Benefits

    • Medical, vision
      dental and more

      Our flexible benefits include a choice of two HMO medical plans (both of which include vision), two PPO dental choices, flexible spending accounts, accident insurance, long-term disability insurance and life insurance.

    • Generous vacation
      holiday and sick leave

      We offer one of the most generous plans among health care systems in San Diego, and new Sharp employees start with 25 days of paid time off in just the first year.

    • Wellness
      programs

      We focus on your overall well-being by giving you tools to improve both yourself and your life — mentally, physically, spiritually, emotionally and environmentally. Our focus is on balanced health and wellness to help you reach your health goals and enjoy life along the way.

    • Employee assistance
      program

      At Sharp, we understand that personal problems occasionally arise and you may need to seek outside professional advice. We’re here to help. Our employee assistance program helps employees develop and maintain a lifestyle that supports good health and productivity.

    • Retirement
      plans

      We’re proud to offer two retirement plans to match your needs. The Sharp$aver 401(a) plan matches your after-tax contributions and the 403(b) plan offers a long-term savings plan for pre-tax and Roth contributions with available loan and withdrawal provisions.

    • Educational opportunities
      and tuition reimbursement

      We support and encourage the growth and development of our employees through educational courses for credit in institutions of higher learning, continuing education programs (conferences, workshops, seminars) and specialty certification examinations.

    • Discount programs,
      perks and other benefits

      Our employees are eligible to participate in several group voluntary benefit plans — including group legal, college savings, critical illness insurance, group auto and home insurance and pet insurance.

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