Associate Chief Nursing Officer (ACNO) of Ambulatory Clinical Administration

Job Description

UC Health is hiring an Associate Chief Nursing Officer (ACNO) for the Ambulatory Clinical Administration department.

In collaboration with VP Ambulatory Operations, the ACNO Ambulatory is responsible for the development, implementation and ongoing improvement of evidence-based professional practice and processes across the clinic settings. Facilitates a robust professional practice governance framework to optimize standards, manage risk, support continuous improvement, and facilitates a learning culture. Supports the development of an adaptable and resilient workforce based on modern and innovative designs that overcomes current workforce challenges and delivers cutting-edge care delivery. Responsible for assuring an engaged and dynamic support staff across the ambulatory settings and sites of care.

About UC Health

UC Health is an integrated academic health system serving Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. In partnership with the University of Cincinnati, UC Health combines clinical expertise and compassion with research and teaching-a combination that provides patients with options for even the most complex situations. Members of UC Health include: UC Medical Center, West Chester Hospital, Daniel Drake Center for Post-Acute Care, Bridgeway Pointe Assisted Living, University of Cincinnati Physicians and UC Health Ambulatory Services (with more than 900 board-certified clinicians and surgeons), Lindner Center of HOPE and several specialized institutes including: UC Gardner Neuroscience Institute and the University of Cincinnati Cancer Center. Many UC Health locations have received national recognition for outstanding quality and patient satisfaction. Learn more at uchealth.com.

Responsibilities

  • Responsibility for establishing Evidence-Based nursing practice throughout all service lines and clinical sites of care.
  • Assists the VPs of Ambulatory with support for education and growth of the nursing model of care along with the nursing shared governance process.
  • Displays relentless focus on redesigning the clinical care delivery to improve efficiency, service, and quality
  • Manages and maintains the overarching portfolio of work for Ambulatory including scope, deliverables, and timelines.
  • Escalates any risks and associated mitigation strategies to relevant stakeholders.
  • Provides oversight of clinical operations of services/clinics, including meeting performance metrics and driving optimal operational performance.
  • Assesses and sets the tone for the Ambulatory clinical settings and identifies opportunities to make improvement to quality, efficiency, and team productivity.
  • Reduces waste throughout the system.
  • Identifies talent, coaches, and mentors individuals to their highest levels of performance.


Qualifications

Education:
  • Master of Science in Nursing

Licensure and Certification:
  • State of Ohio Registered Nursing License

Years of Experience:
  • 6 - 10 years of clinical experience
  • Preferred: 10+ years of clinical leadership experience
  • Prior procedural area experience is preferred

Skills and Knowledge:
  • Excellent communication skills with ability to interface across large and highly matrixed organizational environments.
  • Demonstrates initiative, creativity, flexibility, and inspirational leadership.
  • Ability to effectively manage multiple and diverse tasks; achieve expected outcomes; appropriately delegate, follow-up, and evaluate programs and assignments; correctly identify problems and recommend or implement viable solutions or alternatives.
  • Demonstrates the ability for adapting projects and services to the diversity of the ever-changing healthcare environment.
  • Ability to foster professional and inter-professional relationships.
  • Extensive leadership experience, including optimized results/outcomes, patient-centered care, common objectives, value analysis, operational/clinical efficiencies, and capital planning.
  • Exceptional ability to impact and influence behavior, drive consensus, and achieve alignment.
  • Extensive experience with change/project management and continuous improvement principles to standardize/transform care, scale up learnings, and optimize system goal alignment
  • Ability to build effective teams and coalitions to drive consensus across disparate stakeholders
  • Advanced operational expertise related to clinical operations, practice management, performance improvement, and regulatory compliance.

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