Executive Director, Nursing – Orange County

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago, and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.  

The Executive Director of Nursing (EDON) is a registered professional nurse who provides leadership and management of specific service lines through the application of advanced competencies in communication, health care knowledge, leadership, professionalism, and business skills. This executive is a member of the associate chief nursing officer’s administrative team and serves as the designee for assigned responsibilities. Effectively partners with hospital or clinical leadership, medical staff, and other departments to create a center of excellence for their specialty service and to meet the institution’s mission, vision, and goals.

The Executive Director of Nursing provides direct leadership for the staff who comprise their specialty service lines and/or areas of responsibility. EDON is a standard bearer and holds leaders and staff accountable for the delivery of safe, quality care and services through effective communication, fiscal accountability, and employment of transformational leadership, instilling an accountability-based practice setting. The executive director of nursing serves as the sponsor for performance improvement; inspires others to seek opportunities to grow and improve their performance and successfully applies lean and evidenced-based practice to ensure nursing outcomes are achieved. Effectively uses data and technology to make decisions and proactively mitigates unnecessary risks for their area of responsibility providing instruction and mentoring for assigned leaders to be able to do the same. This executive ensures that leaders and staff create a desirable, safe work environment that enables the organization to meet or exceed all licensure, regulatory and accreditation standards. EDON models the way by fostering exemplary skills in attaining effective teamwork and collaboration with physicians, staff, patients, and other departments.

As a successful candidate, you will:

• Responsible for the overall operations of the department(s), including compliance with all regulatory agencies for all areas of responsibility.
• Responsible for goal development, planning, execution and evaluation of goal achievement. Develops short, mid, and long-term goals with plans to facilitate/guide goal achievement that are consistent with the mission and values of the City of Hope.
• Effectively communicates with patients, visitors, management staff, departmental personnel, physicians, peers, and other City of Hope personnel. Participates in required meetings. Demonstrates effective problem solving, negotiating, and conflict resolution skills. Promotes teamwork.
• Serves as role model, motivates, mentors, and inspires management staff and department personnel; demonstrates flexibility and impartiality when dealing with others.
• Performs annual employee performance evaluation(s) and motivates employees to perform in an efficient and professional manner; recruits and maintains the staff necessary to carry out the functions of the departments.

Your qualifications should include:

• Master’s degree in nursing or in related field. If a master’s degree is in a related field, then must have bachelor’s degree in nursing.
• 10+ years nursing experience required with a minimum of 7+ years in nursing leadership.
• Current California license required or must be obtained within 6 months of hire.
• APRN is required if providing oversight for Advanced Practice Providers.
• National Certification effective June 1, 2021.

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