Director, Perioperative Services

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Exemption Status: Exempt Hiring Range: $128,939.20 - $232,107.20 Please note that the final offer may vary within this range based on a candidate’s experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity considerations .

Schedule Details: Monday through Friday, On Call - Required Scheduled Hours: Monday through Friday with off hours required as needed Shift: 1 - Day Shift, 8 Hours (United States of America) Hours: 40 Cost Center: 10020 - 2110 Operating Room This position may have a signing bonus available a member of the Recruitment Team will confirm eligibility during the interview process.

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At UMass Memorial Health, everyone is a caregiver – regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care, academic excellence and leading-edge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts, and a place where we can help you build the career you deserve. We are more than 20,000 employees, working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients, community and each other. And everyone, in their own unique way, plays an important part, every day.

Responsible for the development of short and long-term planning and goal setting for assigned patient care units across the University, Memorial and Hahnemann campuses of the Medical Center. Develops new programs and expands existing services. Establishes systems that ensure continuity of care across the Medical Center. Serves as a resource to affiliate hospitals for program needs and provides consultation services and program oversight.

I. Major Responsibilities: 1. Oversees patient care management and ensures that professional nursing is practiced in accordance with established standards of regulatory and nursing standards of practice at UMMHC. 2. Ensures the delivery of quality services for customers.  Investigates service expansion, recommends new programs, and oversees implementation as opportunities present themselves. 3. Provides administrative and financial accountability for planning, directing, staffing, coordinating, and controlling functions and activities of all phases of the surgical services departments. 4. Manages the overall operations of Medical Center Perioperative Services in accordance with hospital policies, standards of nursing practice, and governmental regulations providing excellent care for all perioperative patients. 5. Plans, develops, and implements strategy for operational/marketing management and development to meet organizational performance plans within budgets and time frames. 6. Maintains reports and statistics for administrative and regulatory purposes. Recommends purchases to be considered in the capital budget process.  Ensures proper follow up of approved expenditures. 7. Exemplifies UMMH Standards of Respect, demonstrates and upholds them in all interactions and builds structures to develop and support healthy work environment within Perioperative/Perianesthesia/Endoscopy services, collaborating departments, the Medical Center, and the Health System. 8. Uses evidence-based strategies to champion and manage change. Actively drives and supports innovative initiatives that promote transformative progress ensuring alignment with best practice and the organization's vision and strategic goals. 9. Leads and facilitates cross-site collaboration. Promotes and enhances collaboration across Medical Center sites, supporting seamless communication and teamwork to achieve unified operational excellence. Builds strong partnerships with perioperative/procedural leaders across UMass surgical/procedural locations. Collaborates to scale, implement, and standardize best practices to align across UMass sites.

Standard Management Level Responsibilities: 1. Directs and supervises assigned personnel including performance evaluations, scheduling, orientation, and training.  Makes recommendations on employee hires, transfers, promotions, salary changes, discipline, terminations, and similar actions.  Resolves grievances and other personnel problems within position responsibilities. 2. Develops and recommends the budgets for the areas managed. Manages activities to assure financial goals are met. 3. Coordinates the assignment of tasks and helps resolve technical and operational problems. Evaluates the impact of solutions to ensure goals are achieved. 4. Provides effective direction, guidance, and leadership over the staff for effective teamwork and motivation and fosters the effective integration of efforts with system-wide initiatives. 5. Encourages and supports diverse views and approaches, demonstrates Standards of Respect, and contributes to creating and maintaining an environment of professionalism, respect, tolerance, civility and acceptance toward all employees, patients and visitors. 6. Integrates diversity into departmental objectives, such as hiring, promotions, training, vendor selections, etc. 7. Participates in performance improvement initiatives and demonstrates the use of quality improvement in daily operations. 8. Ensures compliance with regulatory agencies such as Joint Commission, DPH, etc.  Develops and maintains procedures necessary to meet regulatory requirements. 9. Ensures that department complies with hospital established policies, quality assurance programs, safety, and infection control policies and procedures. 10. Ensures adequate equipment and supplies for department. 11. Develops and maintains established departmental policies, procedures, and objectives. 12. Ensures compliance to all health and safety regulations and requirements. 13. Maintains, regular, reliable, and predictable attendance. 14. Performs similar or related duties as required or directed.

All responsibilities are essential job functions.

II. Position Qualifications: License/Certificatio

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