Vice President of Critical Care Patient Care Services

Help shape the future of pediatric critical care at Children's Hospital Colorado. As Vice President of Patient Care Services - Critical Care, you will lead system-wide strategy and clinical excellence across some of our most complex and high-acuity services, ensuring children and families receive the highest quality, safest care when it matters most. This role offers a powerful opportunity to partner with executive, physician, and academic leaders to advance a unified System of Care, strengthen teams, and drive outcomes that reflect our mission to improve the health of children, today and for generations to come.

Children's Hospital Colorado is seeking a visionary and accomplished Vice President for Patient Care Services, with a focus in Critical Care Services.

The Vice President Patient Care Services will partner with Divisional VPs in providing strategic and operational leadership for the Division of Patient Care Services. In addition, they will focus on a System strategy for Critical Care Services, advancing clinical practice and operations to achieve exceptional patient outcomes in a dynamic academic healthcare environment.

Services include: Pediatric Intensive Care, Heart Institute including intensive care and progressive care services, ECMO, CRRT, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Neonatal Nurse Practitioners, Labor and Delivery and Lactation.

This leader will be a key member of the executive leadership team, collaborating with clinical, academic, and administrative leaders to ensure the highest standards of care, patient safety, and nursing excellence.

Key Initiatives

• Strategic Leadership: Develop and implement strategic plans to enhance nursing and clinical practice, operational efficiency, and patient outcomes in critical services
• Operational Oversight: Oversee operations of critical services, ensuring alignment with the hospital's mission, vision and goals.
• Team Development: Recruit, mentor and retain top nursing and clinical talent while building high performing teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, professional growth, and accountability
• Clinical Excellence: Promote evidence-based practice, innovation, and quality improvement initiatives to advance pediatric nursing and clinical care
• Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Partner with physicians, researchers, community partners, and administrative leaders to integrate clinical care, education and research

Duties & Responsibilities

An employee in this position may be called upon to do any or all the following essential functions. These examples do not include all the functions which the employee may be expected to perform.

• Collaborates with the Chief Nurse Executive (CNE) and Patient Care Services leaders across the system to develop a system-wide vision for the division, ensuring alignment with the larger system vision and strategy. Drives performance outcomes for clinical and nursing functions, while ensuring alignment with the system-wide vision and strategy for patient care services.
• Participates in leadership activities for the system, contributing to the achievement of goals and objectives; serves as a champion of organizational culture, influencing culture change to support organizational objectives.
• Oversees the execution of operational policies that guide system-level patient care and service delivery; serves as executive sponsor on major projects; provides advice and guidance to senior leadership on the operational impact of strategic initiatives; handles operational and customer service escalations.
• Develops and oversees functions and services to meet system needs, to include creating and maintaining organizational design for designated clinical and nursing functions and reviewing and approving resource plans.
• Manages communications across the system on nursing and clinical operations and outcomes within Patient Care Services. Maintains effective working relationships with executives across the system to drive performance towards the system's strategic plan; builds and maintains relationships with external stakeholders and community groups to support both operational and organizational strategic initiatives.
• Assigns and reviews annual goals and strategic goals; provides work instruction, coaching, mentoring and development to leaders. Evaluates performance of leaders, providing continuous feedback and maintaining succession plans. Manages discipline and performance issues; hires and terminates leaders.
• Carries overall financial management responsibility for nursing and clinical functions, reviewing and approving recommendations made by leaders for assigned areas, departments, and units.
• Ensures compliance against federal, state, and local regulations for operations, to include accountability for accreditation readiness for assigned areas, departments, and units.
• Serves as the administrator on-call as designated.

Minimum Qualifications

• Degrees
  • Master's degree in health-related field
• Experience
  • Five (5) years of nursing clinical experience and five (5) years of leadership experience over clinical operations and staff required.
  • Applicants with clinical and/or leadership experience related to area of specialty (Critical Care), Pediatric experience, and/or Academic Healthcare experience preferred.
• Licenses & Certifications
  • An ANCC recognized certification.
  • Active member in a nursing or professional healthcare organization.
  • Nurse Executive or Nurse Executive Advanced required within 12 months of hire.

Salary Information
Pay is dependent on applicant's relevant experience.
Minimum Salary: 256,480.00

Benefits Information
Here, you matter. As a Children's Hospital Colorado team member, you will receive a competitive pay and benefits package designed to take care of your needs that includes base pay, incentives, paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, company provided life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, 403b employer match (retirement savings), a robust wellness program, and access to professional development tools, including an education benefit to help you advance your career.

As part of our Total Rewards package, Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April.

Children's Colorado delivers annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on their performance over the previous year.

EEO Statement
It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. Be aware that none of the questions are intended to imply illegal preferences or discrimination based on non-job-related information. The position is expected to stay open until the posted close date. Please submit your application as soon as possible as the posting is subject to close at any time once a sufficient pool of qualified applicants is obtained.

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