Disaster Recovery Director jobs in Cambridge, MA

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

I. Scholarship

1. Creates an environment that supports and celebrates the professional growth of nursing practice.

2. Actively supports the development of new nursing knowledge.

3. Assures the use of and adherence to evidence-informed practice/standards for nursing care.

5. Professional development –self

a. Participates in self-performance appraisal process in ongoing manner.

b. Seeks feedback from their professional colleagues.

d. Maintains necessary clinical and managerial expertise through evidence-based practice.

e. Participates in service- and department-wide developmental initiatives.

6. Conducts timely assessments of staff learning needs and assure programs/projects are in place to address them, including collaboration with the Professional Development Managers and the center for Nursing Excellence.

7. Facilitates opportunities for staff to precept and mentor others.

II. Authentic Leadership

1. Serves as a clinical leader/coach /mentor to staff.

2. Promotes staff participation in annual goal setting for their patient care area[s] and the Department of Nursing.

3. Serves as a leader within the community of nursing, in accordance with the standards of the team of nursing, including adherence to the ANA Code of Ethics.

4. Assures appropriate personnel to meet the needs of the designated patient population.

5. Designs and implements staffing patterns responsive to a dynamic care environment.

6. Interviews, hires and oversees the orientation of new employees considering departmental, divisional, local and individual employee needs as basis of decisions.

7. Provided ongoing formal and informal feedback regarding performance to staff members.

8. Delegates authority and/or responsibility to others as appropriate while maintaining 24x7 accountability.

9. Demonstrates consistent leadership in the maintenance of a fair and just culture.

10. Assures staff participation in local-based decision making, Department of Nursing committees and initiatives.

III. Meaningful Recognition

1. Provides formal and informal opportunities for staff to develop personal career goals and plans for their achievement.

IV. Relationship Based Care

1. Creates an environment that celebrates the professional growth of nursing practice.

2. Responsible for creating and maintaining a caring, therapeutic, healing, patient- and family-centered care environment

3. Assures the presence of interventions to promote/assure a patient and family centered healing environment.

V. Outcome Focused Measures

a. example, required licensure, orientation, ongoing education and annual

b. competencies and screenings for ongoing employment].

9. Provides leadership in developing quality-driven and cost-effective plans to deliver patient care, including participation in strategic planning

10. Assures the accurate attainment and review of data (complexity, volume, acuity, etc) in relation to staffing effectiveness

11. Develops and participates in creating systems to monitor the patient care environment, knowledgeable about and mindful of relevant regulatory compliance.

VI. True Collaboration

1. Contributes to nursing as a department/team

c. Assures self and staff participation in DON and interdepartmental committees.

d. Represents service/DON as requested on various hospital task forces/committees.

VII. Fiscal Responsiveness

1. Accountable to seek necessary information, including active engagement of staff, to establish trends necessary to determine appropriate personnel and supply budgets.

2. Manages to budget and articulates any short or long-term variances.

3. Collaborates with Associate Chief Nurse to be fiscally responsive, i.e. managing volume and acuity to hours per workload index (HPWI).

4. Develops schedules/ staffing plans that meet patient care needs on a continuous basis.

5. Collaborates with nurse leaders and other departments to assure adequate supplies, operational, capital resources are available to staff caring for patients.

Qualifications - External

Qualifications

• Current registration in nursing in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

• MSN (or) DNP (or) PhD, (or) a BSN with a Master’s degree in a related field, required.

• Current certification required or to be attained within two-year period from 10-1-18 or from date of hire after 10-1-18. Certification must be maintained while employed in this position.

• Minimum of 3 years nursing experience required.

• Minimum of 3-5 years’ experience in nursing administration within an academic medical center (preferred).

• Current nursing licensure in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

• Clinical experience will be evaluated on an individual basis by the hiring senior nursing director.

• Previous leadership experience with demonstrated management ability is preferred.

• Experience in leading and providing care in a procedural space preferred.

Skills and Abilities Required

• Must have demonstrated clinical competence in nursing practice.

• Must possess analytical abilities necessary to organize, to supervise and to evaluate the work of others; to develop and to administer policies, procedures, budgets, and utilize current concepts of nursing practice.

• Must possess interpersonal skills sufficient to provide effective leadership to staff, and to interact with patients, visitors, physicians, other clinical teams and a variety of hospital departments.

• Must possess both management and leadership skills to be effective with multiple levels of staff.

Supervisory Responsibilities: Responsible for the supervision of RN’s, LPN’s, nurse flow managers, technical and support personnel.

Accountability: Reports to the Senior Nursing Director of Procedural Services, Nursing and Clinical Services of the designated areas.

Working Conditions: Works in a variety of patient care environments where there is potential exposure to communicable disease, and hazardous materials.

• Current registration in nursing in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

• MSN (or) DNP (or) PhD, (or) a BSN with a Master’s degree in a related field, required.

• Current certification required or to be attained within two-year period from 10-1-18 or from date of hire after 10-1-18. Certification must be maintained while employed in this position.

• Minimum of 3 years nursing experience required.

• Minimum of 3-5 years’ experience in nursing administration within an academic medical center (preferred).

• Current nursing licensure in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

• Clinical experience will be evaluated on an individual basis by the hiring senior nursing director.

• Previous leadership experience with demonstrated management ability is preferred.

• Experience in leading and providing care in a procedural space preferred.

• Must have demonstrated clinical competence in nursing practice.

• Must possess analytical abilities necessary to organize, to supervise and to evaluate the work of others; to develop and to administer policies, procedures, budgets, and utilize current concepts of nursing practice.

• Must possess interpersonal skills sufficient to provide effective leadership to staff, and to interact with patients, visitors, physicians, other clinical disciplines and a variety of hospital departments.

• Must possess both management and leadership skills to be effective with multiple levels of staff.

Supervisory Responsibilities: Responsible for the supervision of RN’s, LPN’s, nurse flow managers, technical and support personnel.

Accountability: Reports to the Senior Nursing Director of Procedural Services, Nursing and Clinical Services of the designated areas.