Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) - Full-Time/Exempt

Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) - Watsonville Community Hospital - Watsonville, CA

About the Opportunity

Are you a visionary healthcare leader who wants to make a tangible impact?

Watsonville Community Hospital is seeking a compassionate and strategic Chief Nursing Officer to partner in the continued efforts to build and create a hospital that delivers residents with the highest quality, sustainable healthcare long into the future.

Step away from corporate bureaucracy. Step into a community where your leadership directly shapes local healthcare.

Rooted in the heart of a vibrant agricultural community, our 106-bed acute care facility has proudly served local families and farmworkers for generations.

While we are currently navigating a season of financial challenges, we view this as a unique opportunity for an innovative leader to help stabilize our operations, optimize resources, and secure a thriving, sustainable future for our patients.

Position Summary: The Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) is responsible for: providing leadership to nurse employees that will enroll their support, create ownership of goals and have them actively participate in decisions that impact the Hospital; maintaining necessary regulatory and compliance approvals and quality accreditations; partnering with physicians who use or will use the hospital; assisting in planning new services that generate additional sources of profitable revenue; creating an environment that will encourage recruiting and retention of clinical employees; managing costs by continually seeking data that will identify opportunities and take action to eliminate non-value costs; establishing standards for nursing practices and maintain authority, accountability and responsibility for nursing services; developing organizational patient care programs, policies and procedures that describe how nursing care is assessed, delivered and evaluated; developing and managing the nursing services budget and ensuring sufficient number of qualified staff to assess patient needs; plan and provide nursing care interventions and prevent complications, promote improvement and patient comfort and wellness; analyzing areas in planning, promoting and conducting organization-wide performance improvement activities; representing the nursing services at all meetings including medical staff and hospital board of director meetings; participates with leaders in designing and providing patient care and services. As a member of the Hospital senior management team, the CNO will participate in functional decision-making processes necessary to the successful attainment of the hospital's mission in addition to maintaining an awareness of changes in healthcare clinical matters that could have an impact on the success of the hospital. The CNO will oversee multiple departments within the hospital. This position reports directly to the hospital CEO.

Education

• Must possess a Bachelor's degree in Nursing form an accredited institution.
• Master's Degree preferred.

Experience

• 5+ years of demonstrated successful leadership in an acute-care hospital environment (For-profit experience preferred).
• Must be proficient in written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with hospital staff, physicians, patients and patient's families.
• Ability to maintain confidential information concerning personal, financial or medical matters.

Licensure/Certification

• Valid California Registered Nurse license required
• American Heart Association Healthcare Provider certification required