Senior Director of Outpatient Oncology – Mount Sinai Hospital – Full-Time-Days

The Senior Director of Nursing is responsible for the daily operations of the Department of Nursing and all assigned clinical programs, which includes overall strategic planning for all clinical programs to ensure implementation of the mission, philosophy, patient care standards and nursing informatics to support nursing practice. S/he is accountable for budgetary planning and resources to enhance the quality of patient care.

The Senior Director of Nursing is responsible for facilitating the overall strategic plan for personnel and resource management, annual goals and objectives, and fiscal targets in collaboration with Nursing senior leadership.

Patient Experience

1. Leads

• nursing practice using the tenets of the Professional Practice Model of
• Relationship Centered Care and the Care Delivery Model of Modified Primary
• Nursing for the promotion of the patient experience.

1. Demonstrates

• proficiency in all aspects of Purposeful Hourly Rounding (PHR) and role models
• expected behaviors.

1. Ensures

• the integration of PHR into clinical activities to enhance Relationship
• Centered Care.

1. Confirms

and periodically observes daily patient rounding.

1. Validates

• Director of Nursing competency in PHR, and provides consistent meaningful
• feedback with more focused feedback as needed.

1. Synthesizes

• quantitative and qualitative feedback regarding the patient experience and
• staff engagement to Directors of Nursing, Associate Nursing Directors, Clinical
• Nurse Managers, Assistant Nurse Managers, Nursing Shift Managers and the
• Interdisciplinary Patient Care Team that leads to the development and implementation
• of an action plan.

1. Follows

• up on all patient concerns in a timely manner, provides service recovery as
• needed and escalates patient concerns as appropriate.

1. Demonstrates

• caring, respect, compassion, empathy and active listening through dialogue,
• body language and actions.

Quality and Safety

1. Designs,

• supports and leads a safe, therapeutic and efficient patient-centered care
• environment for professional practice.

1. Identifies

• and investigates issues or variances in practice/operations by participating in
• the RCA process and develops and implements corrective action plans.

1. Fosters

• a fair and open culture that encourages error and near-miss occurrence
• reporting.

1. Leads

• interdisciplinary quality improvement teams using the principles of high
• reliability.

1. Communicates

• with staff and leadership about unit progress, changes, and compliance with
• quality and safety metrics.

1. Responds

• to escalations of potential safety hazards or gaps from best practice by
• correcting concerns following institutional chain of command protocol.

1. Monitors

• institutional information technology infrastructure and corrects gaps in
• clinical nurse documentation.

1. Leads

• staff participation in quality and safety initiatives and mandated compliance
• measures.

1. Demonstrates

• accountability for all unit quality and safety practices and compliance, and
• insures required evaluation of staff competencies is maintained.

1. Reviews unit progress,

• changes and compliance with quality and safety metrics with Directors and
• Associate Directors.

1. Coaches and mentors

• Directors in the resolution of potential safety hazards and validation of
• compliance with hospital and departmental policies and procedures and
• regulatory agency standards.

1. Fosters a professional

• practice environment through the facilitation of collegial interdisciplinary
• relationships, peer review, nursing research, innovation and joint practice
• arrangement through affiliating universities.

Operations and Administration

1. Supports

• implementation of the mission, vision, goals and objectives of the department,
• throughout the clinical service and individual patient care units.

1. Provides

• administrative oversight to service lines, departments or groups of units to ensure
• that all activity (staffing, support services, inter disciplinary
• collaboration, resources and financial viability) supports the goals of the organization.

1. Works

• collaboratively with the Director of Nursing/Associate Director/ Clinical Nurse
• Manager/Assistant Nurse Manager/Nursing Shift Manager, physician dyads and all
• members of the healthcare team to develop a cohesive unit leadership group.

1. Maintains

• service line compliance with all regulatory agency mandates, including the regulations
• of NYS DOH and The Joint Commission.

1. Oversees

• nursing leadership and managers to ensure 24 hour patient care delivery,
• throughput, staffing and processes to insure efficient and effective
• operations.

1. Oversees

• the development and implementation of several unit or service line budgets,
• including capital equipment allocation, budget variances, management of OT and
• vacancies, according to MSHS financial goals.

1. Oversees

control of positions and the recruitment and retention of qualified staff.

1. Maintains

patient/employee confidentiality in the management of information.

1. Monitors

availability and maintenance of nursing equipment and supplies.

1. Evaluates Director/Associate

• Director of Nursing performance. Mentors, coaches, counsels and disciplines
• staff as needed.

1. Conducts leadership staff

• meetings with Directors to ensure communication about progress, changes and
• compliance with all hospital policies and procedures and regulatory agency
• standards.

1. Encourages, recognizes and

• rewards manager and staff participation in quality and safety initiatives,
• compliance and successes.

1. Facilitates organizational

change initiatives by using effective strategies.

1. Leads a shared decision-making model by establishing a structure of shared governance, just culture and

staff engagement in practice councils, departmental meetings and initiatives.

1. Interprets and implements

• collective bargaining agreements affecting staff while enforcing compliance of
• union contracts.

1. Serves as chairperson/member

in hospital wide committees to represent nursing.

1. Serves in the position of

Administrator on Call (AOC) as assigned.

Professional Development

1. Evaluates

• and directs the environment of care to support clinical colleagues, patients
• and their families and members of the health care team.

1. Advances

• clinical competence in nursing practice and leadership to progress from
• competent to expert.

1. Develops

• and leads an environment that cultivates a professional image of nursing to
• colleagues, communication standards include styles and methods that demonstrate
• caring, respect, empathy and trust.

1. Recommends

• and supports standards that ensure that ethical principles are incorporated
• into decision making for patient and family in collaboration with the clinical
• nursing staff and the health care team.

1. Encourages

• and facilitates a spirit of scholarship, inquiry, life-long learning and
• innovation for self and others.

1. Oversees

• and supports staff in shared decision making through facilitating specialty
• practice councils, and as a chairperson/ member of nursing department
• committees, and unit initiatives.

1. Acquires

• and disseminates knowledge and skills relative to the role, patient population,
• clinical specialty and global or local health community needs

1. Serves

• as a professional role model and preceptor for new leadership, staff and
• students.

1. Establishes

• and implements a system that supports best practice patient care decisions,
• safe and efficient patient throughput and access to resources for the
• unit/clinical service area.

1. Incorporates the values of

• research and evidenced based practice and its application to the environment of
• care.

1. Contributes to the

• profession of nursing through leadership and participation in professional
• organizations.

Education Requirements

• Bachelor of Science with a major in nursing required
• Master's Degree in Nursing or healthcare-related field required

Licensing and Certification Requirements

• Licensed as a registered nurse with current registration in New York State
• Basic Life Saver (BLS) Issuing Agency: AHA
• OCN & Chemo Bio Certification preferred

Experience Requirements

• Minimum of 5-7 years of progressive nursing leadership experience demonstrating solid management abilities.
• Oncology Leadership Experience
• Must have relevant clinical competence in the area of Oncology

Compensation Statement

The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides salary ranges that comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $153,723.00 - $230,584.00 Annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and operational need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.