**Employment Type:** Full time **Shift:** **Description:** St. Joseph’s Health is a regional non-profit health care system based in Syracuse, NY. St. Joseph’s has been an innovative leader in health care since our founding in 1869 as the first public hospital in the city of Syracuse. Offering primary, specialty and home care, a Magnet-recognized hospital, and collaboration with community partners, St. Joseph’s Health advances the well-being of the communities we serve through an expanding range of services to ensure our patients achieve optimum long-term health. + 431 Bed Teaching Hospital + 12 Adult Inpatient Units + 2 Adult ICUs (CVICU, MSICU) + NICU + Birthing Center + Surgical Center (CVOR, OR, PACU, ENDO) + Emergency Center including Psychiatric Emergency Center **POSITION PURPOSE** Serves as a member of the St Joseph’s Health (SJH) senior leadership team. Provides clinical and administrative leadership for planning, organizing, directing, monitoring and evaluating safe high-quality patient care across the continuum to advance clinical practice and patient care consistent with the ANA Scope of Practice and American Nurses Credentialing Center Magnet Standards. **ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS** 1. Knows, understands, incorporates, and demonstrates the Trinity Health Mission, Vision, and Values in behaviors, practices, and decisions. 2. Participates in the administration SJH as a full member of the senior leadership team, including strategic planning, execution, change management, and organizational decision-making. Develops and implements nursing’s mission, vision, values and strategic, short- and long-term goals and objectives, standards of care and operating plans for patient care services. 3. Collaborates with the senior leadership team in the development and implementation of operating and capital budgets. 4. Develops and implements ongoing measures/evaluation methods related to all dimensions of performance inclusive of budget and productivity targets. 5. Develops and implements plans, including education and required competencies that ensure staffing for safe high-quality patient care. 6. Ensures the recruitment, retention, development, succession planning for and engagement of quality patient care associates and leadership. Promotes an environment of shared leadership and decision making. 7. Participates in evaluating, selecting and integrating health care technology and information systems that support patient care. 8. In collaboration with the Chief Medical Officer and the Chief Quality Officer, serves as a sponsor and develops and directs the implementation of effective evidence-based programs to measure, analyze and continuously improve the safety and quality of all patient care services through empiric outcomes. 9. Ensures compliance with all health care standards and requirements established by various licensing, regulatory and accreditation bodies. 10. Communicates on a regular basis with senior leaders, the medical staff, the board and other identified stakeholders’ achievements and concerns related to patient safety, quality, patient loyalty, associate engagement and physician satisfaction. 11. Maintains a working knowledge of applicable Federal, State, and local laws and regulations, Trinity Health’s Organizational Integrity Program, Standards of Conduct, as well as other policies and procedures in order to ensure adherence in a manner that reflects honest, ethical, and professional behavior. 12. Responsible for the determining the types and numbers of staff necessary to provide nursing care for all patient care areas of the organization and standards of nursing practice **LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES** **As a Trinity Health Executive, the incumbent is expected to demonstrate leadership traits which support our Mission Statement and Core Values as identified below:** **Mission Statement:** We, Trinity Health, serve together in the spirit of the Gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. **Core Values:** + **Reverence:** We honor the sacredness and dignity of every person. + **Commitment to Those who are Poor:** We stand with and serve those who are poor, especially those most vulnerable. + **Justice:** We foster right relationships to promote the common good, including sustainability of Earth. + **Stewardship:** We honor our heritage and hold ourselves accountable for the human, financial and natural resources entrusted to our care. + **Integrity:** We are faithful to those we say we are. + **Safety:** We embrace a culture that prevents harm and nurtures a healing, safe environment for all. **MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS** 1. State Registered Nursing license 2. Bachelor of Science in Nursing Degree with appropriate Master's Degree in Nursing, Business or Health Administration. Doctoral education preferred. 3. Minimum of five (5) years executive/director level leadership experience in patient care in an acute care setting 4. Advanced knowledge of professional nursing practice in an executive or specialty practice area as evidenced through certification (e.g. CENP, NEA-BC, FACHE, etc.). Certification required within 18 months of hire. 5. Member of a professional nursing organization 6. A thorough understanding of the Electronic Medical Record, concepts of clinical informatics, and other advanced health care technologies 7. A thorough understanding of the health care environment and all applicable laws and regulations 8. In depth knowledge of system thinking, change leadership, shared governance, matrix reporting, continuous improvement, process excellence, and financial and productivity management 9. Demonstrated ability to collaborate with all members of the administrative and health care team 10. The ability to synthesize and interpret large amounts of clinical, quality, and financial data 11. Demonstrated problem solving and critical thinking skills 12. Demonstrated ability to model the use of evidence-based leadership/practice, and project management skills. 13. Displays excellent interpersonal and communication skills to provide advice, counsel and leadership to staff, physicians, patients and the community **PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS** Leadership and management skills necessary to foster the growth and development of direct reports, motivate individuals and teams, and resolve problems in a diplomatic professional manner. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to provide advice, counsel and leadership to staff, physicians, patients and the community. These skills must also be used to effectively develop and foster collaborative working relationships with all levels of staff/management/leadership, influence results and gamer support. Strong analytical and critical thinking skills necessary to conceptualize ideas in an unstructured, fast paced, dynamic and multifunctional environment requiring creativity, innovation, foresight and mature judgment **PHYSICAL AND MENTAL REQUIREMENTS AND WORKING CONDITIONS** 1. Must be able to balance, manage and adapt to frequently changing work priorities, and be able to prioritize and balance the requirements of working with the System Office and Regional Health Ministries (RHMs). 2. Must be able to travel to the various Trinity Health sites as needed. _The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by persons assigned to this classification._ _They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of duties so assigned._ **Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion** Trinity Health is one of the largest not-for-profit, Catholic healthcare systems in the nation. Built on the foundation of our Mission and Core Values, we integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion in all that we do. Our colleagues have different lived experiences, customs, abilities, and talents. Together, we become our best selves. A diverse and inclusive workforce provides the most accessible and equitable care for those we serve. Trinity Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other status protected by law. Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion Trinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions. Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity. EOE including disability/veteran