Senior Director, APP - Oncology

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A Brief Overview
The Senior Director of Advanced Practice provides direction and supervision for all Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) including Nurse Practitioners (NP) Physician Assistants (PA) and Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNS) in designated in-patient and out-patient services lines in collaboration with the Center for Advanced Practice. Leads and supports advanced practice to ensure quality and efficient patient care and ensuring all clinical standards are met. Assists with identifying measuring and evaluating clinical and departmental outcomes. The Senior Director Provides strategic and operational direction for APP practice including oversight of hiring onboarding terminating and managing disciplinary action within the Service Line. The Senior Director will be responsible for staffing allocation ensuring independent practice where appropriate and the presence of consistent and fair coverage across the Service Line.

What you will do

• Responsible for the hiring onboarding and managing Service Line APPs in collaboration with Service Line operational and medical leadership and the Center for Advanced Practice.

• In conjunction with operational leaders allocates staffing and ensures appropriate coverage of patient care needs during transitions or leave of physicians or APPs.

• Coordinates and integrates independent practice and monitors quality of care within and among the sections to achieve desired goals and outcomes.

• Oversees the quality of clinical practices and procedures for Staff APPs and Lead APPs in collaboration with medical leadership.

• Collaborates with operational managers to implement and evaluate new programs in conjunction with division/service physicians and hospital and clinic leadership.

• Collaborates with faculty patient care directors clinic managers nursing staff and support services to determine staffing standards and ensure the appropriate number of APP staff; assessing scheduling practices based on service requirements establishing productivity guidelines and monitoring implementation of these guidelines and scheduling practices.

• Manages patient care human resources systems and workflow processes to achieve and maintain a budget neutral status.

• Accountable for strategic oversight of Advanced Practice Providers withing a Service Line/Destination Service Line including advancing APP-Faculty care models within SHC and at network and affiliate partners.

• Oversees the advancement of research through active training and participation in clinical trials in collaboration with faculty and research staff.

• Ensures alignment with national trends in APP-led clinical care pathways and clinic models. Works with operational and faculty leaders to design implement and monitor APP-led care models supporting patients across the care continuum.

• Participates in the Interdisciplinary Practice Committee and other APP leadership committees as appropriate.

• Mentors and assists Directors Managers Lead APPs and staff APPs in achieving inpatient and outpatient patient care mission and goals.

• Initiates and maintains an organizational structure for the APPs and creates a culture that facilitates collaboration and participation within the service line.

• Works collaboratively with the Center for Advanced Practice and the Nursing Shared Leadership structure in developing house wide APP initiatives.

• Communicates institutional and service line goals develops a plan collaboratively for implementation and then operationalize quality goals and improvements in patient care.

• Collects analyzes and synthesizes clinical quality financial and outcomes data for effective decision-making.

• Serves on appropriate leadership committees in the Service Line and provides routine updates at those meetings to promote necessary changes and report on quality/outcomes data.

• Manage a large portfolio of APPs across multiple service lines and/or multiple sites with significant scope and complexity.

• Responsible for national accreditation and other quality standards of APP practice broadly or within their service lines.

Qualifications

• Masters degree in a related field from an accredited college or university

• Minimum of Twelve (12) years of experience as an Advanced Practice Provider.

• In addition five (5) years of broad and extensive experience managing and leading programs work units or departments of comparable size scope and complexity.

• PA - Physician Assistant State Licensure or NP - Nurse Practitioner or CRNA - Certified Nurse Anesthetist or CNS - Clinical Nurse Specialist

Required Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• Demonstrated experience providing effective staff supervision including planning and assigning work according to the nature of the job to be accomplished the capabilities of subordinates and available resources; controlling work through periodic reviews and/or evaluations; determining subordinates training needs and arranging for such training; motivating subordinates to work effectively; determining the need for disciplinary action and either recommending or initiating disciplinary action.

• Knowledge of professional nursing theory clinical practice standards medical practice guidelines and scope of APP roles.

• Demonstrated experience providing leadership and promote change in a positive manner that supports all employees of the department and health system.

• Demonstrated experience independently seeking out resources and solving complex problems under stressful and/or crisis situations.

• Demonstrated experience communicating effectively with APPs team leaders patients families visitors healthcare team physicians administrators leadership and others.

• Demonstrated experience processing and prioritizing information performing health assessments treatment and follow-up.

• Ability to prepare reports and presentations.

• Demonstrated proficiency in using standard business software applications and ability to quickly learn new software programs.

• Demonstrated experience providing leadership in clinical area of expertise and in meeting organizational goals.

• Demonstrated experience to navigate the Hospital to provide clinical expertise to specific patient populations.

• Knowledge of the principles and practices of leadership and management including planning organizing directing motivating controlling and decision making; organization and operation of hospitals; standards and requirements relating to compliance with external regulatory accrediting and certifying bodies for assigned programs/areas of responsibility; principles and practices of human resources management employee relations organizational behavior program planning and financial management.

• Demonstrated ability to sell a vision strategic planning/thinking abilities values diversity and teamwork; collaborative work style demonstrates integrity and ethics in conduct and decision-making demonstrates initiative creativity and flexibility demands accountability of self and others even when others are not direct reports.

• Ability to build relationships and lead with influence across the SHC ecosystem including collaborative work with SOM faculty UMP Physicians and operational leadersagile in matrixed environments and strong verbal and written communication skills.

These principles apply to ALL employees:

SHC Commitment to Providing an Exceptional Patient & Family Experience


Stanford Health Care sets a high standard for delivering value and an exceptional experience for our patients and families. Candidates for employment and existing employees must adopt and execute C-I-CARE standards for all of patients families and towards each other. C-I-CARE is the foundation of Stanfords patient-experience and represents a framework for patient-centered interactions. Simply put we do what it takes to enable and empower patients and families to focus on health healing and recovery.



You will do this by executing against our three experience pillars from the patient and familys perspective:

• Know Me: Anticipate my needs and status to deliver effective care

• Show Me the Way: Guide and prompt my actions to arrive at better outcomes and better health

• Coordinate for Me: Own the complexity of my care through coordination

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Equal Opportunity Employer Stanford Health Care (SHC) strongly values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity and non-discrimination inall ofits policies and practices including the area of employment. Accordingly SHC does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race color sex sexual orientation or gender identity and/or expression religion age national or ethnic origin political beliefs marital status medical condition genetic information veteran status or disability or the perception of any of the above. People of all genders members of all racial and ethnic groups people with disabilities and veterans are encouraged to apply. Qualified applicants with criminal convictions will be considered after an individualized assessment of the conviction and the job requirements.

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors including but not limited to internal equity experience education specialty and training. This pay scale is not a promise of a particular wage.