VP Surgical Services

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Work Shift

Day
Work Day(s)
Monday-Friday
Shift Start Time
8:00 AM
Shift End Time
5:00 PM
Worker Sub-Type
Regular

Job Description

The Vice President, Surgical Services provides executive leadership for surgical and perioperative services across the system and is accountable for safe, high-quality, patient and family centered care; operational and financial performance; workforce strategy; growth; and resource stewardship. Serving as the administrative dyad partner to the Surgeon in Chief, Division Chief of General Surgery, and other surgical specialty Chiefs, the VP translates system strategy into surgical services priorities and leads coordinated delivery across the perioperative continuum, including preoperative, operating room, post-anesthesia care, inpatient, outpatient, ambulatory surgery center, and sterile processing services. In partnership with the Children’s Physician Group and community surgeons, physicians, and clinical and operational leaders, the VP ensures measurable outcomes in quality, patient experience, access, capacity, workforce engagement, labor performance, and financial sustainability while creating an optimal environment for providers and meeting the surgical needs of the pediatric community Children’s serves.

Experience

• Ten years of progressive healthcare leadership experience, including at least five years as an executive or senior leader in a complex healthcare organization
• Proven experience leading surgical, perioperative, or other complex clinical and business operations across multiple sites, functions, or service lines
• Demonstrated success partnering with surgeon and physician leaders to develop and execute strategic clinical care, growth, access, and capacity plans
• Demonstrated experience improving operating room throughput, utilization, quality, safety, patient flow, and financial performance while achieving superior clinical outcomes
• Proven experience developing workforce and labor strategies, optimizing staffing models, managing premium labor, and aligning workforce capacity with surgical demand and financial targets
• Experience leading systemwide strategy, large-scale transformation, and measurable performance improvement in partnership with clinical, non-clinical, medical, operational, and administrative stakeholders
• Experience benchmarking against peer health systems and national organizations and translating leading practices and emerging trends into actionable surgical services strategies

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in health administration or business administration
• Pediatric healthcare experience, preferably within surgical or perioperative services

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in business, health administration, industrial engineering, or a related healthcare field

Certification Summary

• No professional certifications are required

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Ability to lead highly complex, cross-organizational surgical services initiatives through influence, collaboration, and negotiation among stakeholders with competing priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multiple perioperative functions and develop and execute systemwide strategy, transformation, and measurable performance improvement.
• Ability to build trusted relationships with patients, employees, surgeons, physicians, and senior clinical and non-clinical leaders across organizational levels and specialty areas.
• Strong executive presence and demonstrated ability to lead necessary organizational and operational changes.
• Demonstrated ability to use financial, workforce, quality, safety, patient experience, access, capacity, and operational data to set priorities, manage risk, and drive measurable improvement.
• Strong business and financial acumen, including budgeting, forecasting, labor productivity, premium labor management, margin improvement, and delivery of high-q