Walker Baptist Medical Center, Jasper, Alabama

Walker Baptist Medical Center is a 267-bed acute care facility in Jasper, Alabama, with more than 600 employees. The hospital offers a comprehensive range of clinical services, including obstetrics/gynecology, orthopedics, emergency services, pain center and a Senior Care Unit, in addition to specialized medical and surgical care.

Walker BMC joined the health ministry of Baptist Health System in 1995. Serving an area covering Walker, Winston, Marion and Fayette counties, Walker BMC was the first hospital built in Alabama with all private rooms. Walker Baptist Medical Center has more than 100 qualified physicians on staff representing over 20 specialties. The physician who admits you is responsible for directing your care while you are in the hospital and should be consulted if you have questions about your illness.

Baptist Health System, which was founded in Birmingham in 1922 by a group of local Baptist congregations, is a ministry of the churches of the Birmingham Baptist Association, whose representatives elect the System's Board of Trustees. We honor God and others through our commitment to delivering high quality, compassionate healthcare.

In October of 2015, Baptist Health System and Tenet Healthcare Corporation (NYSE/THC) signed a definitive agreement that created a joint venture to operate a healthcare network serving Birmingham and central Alabama. This new network includes all Baptist Health System hospitals, Tenet's Brookwood Medical Center and each organization's related businesses. Under the joint venture arrangement, Tenet is the majority partner and manages the network's operations. The new company unites Baptist Health System's four hospitals: Citizens Baptist Medical Center, Princeton Baptist Medical Center, Shelby Baptist Medical Center, and Walker Baptist Medical Center, with Brookwood Medical Center. Together, the new system has more than 1,700 licensed beds; 77 outpatient and physician office facilities, including clinics delivering primary and specialty care; approximately 7,300 employees and approximately 1,500 affiliated physicians.

Our people are at the heart of our mission to serve our communities. Deeply instilled in each of our leaders is the sincere dedication to bring expert health care through world-class innovation and service to our communities. By maintaining close relationships with the people in our communities, our leaders have access to consistent, reliable feedback that helps us strengthen our care processes and improve the health of everyone we serve.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Chief Nursing Officer provides strategic leadership as the senior executive position responsible for all nursing and other designated patient care functions and services within the hospital organization. The role assumes responsibility for assessing, planning, coordinating, implementing and evaluating nursing practice on a facility level. The role assumes 24/7 responsibility and has accountability to ensure high quality, safe and appropriate nursing care, competency of clinical staff, and appropriate resource management related to patient care. The Chief Nursing Officer represents nursing concerns on the governing board and at medical staff leadership meetings.

FUNCTIONAL EXPECTATIONS & REQUIREMENTS:

Retaining great people at the facility

• Collaborate with human resources and other team members to select, on-board, orient, and provide coaching for direct reports.
• Evaluate and monitor facility level people pillar statistics, participate on related calls as necessary.
• Consider and/or implement nurse residency programs to ensure pipeline for facility.
• Collaborate with team members to formulate programs to enhance work life balance.
• Partner with related team members to promote a safe work environment that is based on a zero tolerance for sexual harassment, workplace violence and verbal and physical abuse.
• Collaborate with related team members to promote an effective facility level competency program.
• Collaborate to promote a robust employee development and education program that responds to the unique needs of employees across the career continuum (novice to expert).
• Work cohesively with related team members to develop and implement recruitment and retention strategies that ensure a qualified and stable workforce.
• Participate in workforce planning to ensure an adequate and competent workforce.
• Support the design of effective and competitive compensation and benefits programs.

Communication and Relationship Building

• Effectively communicate with all internal and external constituents, including staff, colleagues, and physicians.
• Communicate and administer human resource programs and procedures in accordance with established policies.
• Manage organizational relationships in a manner which builds mutual trust and respect. Establish trusting and collaborative relationships.
• Address and manage conflict in a constructive and productive manner.
• Give timely feedback and reinforce positive behaviors.

Leadership Influence

• Create and communicate a compelling shared vision.
• Develop effective strategies for addressing organizational priorities.
• Develop, communicate and monitor performance expectations.
• Formulate objectives, goals, and specific strategies related to the organization's mission and vision.
• Understand effective organizational outcome measures in order to balance cost, quality and service.
• Measure and analyze performance from the learning and growth, business process, customer, and financial perspectives.
• Promote a results-oriented environment.
• Develop succession plan for nursing leadership.
• Demonstrate effective change management; able to serve as an organizational change agent.
• Coach and mentor aspiring nurse leaders.
• Create an environment in which professional and personal growth is an expectation.
• Articulate the application of ethical principles to operations.
• Manage organizational and individual performance with appropriate rewards.
• Represent nursing and patient care issues within the organization's governance and medical staff structures.
• Represent nursing and patient care in strategic planning and quality initiatives with the governing body.
• Educate the organization's board members and physicians regarding healthcare/value of nursing care.

Diversity

• Create an environment that recognizes and values diversity.
• Develop processes to incorporate cultural beliefs into care.

• Design strategies that address the unique needs of a diverse workforce, patient population, and community.
• Assess the current environment and establish indicators of progress toward cultural competency.

Shared decision-making/Shared Leadership

• Engage staff and others in decision-making.
• Promote decisions that are patient centered.
• Provide an environment conducive to opinion-sharing.
• Promote systems thinking as a value in the nursing organization.
• Consider the impact of nursing decisions on the health care organization as a whole.
• Provide leadership in building loyalty and commitment throughout the organization.
• Synthesize and integrate divergent viewpoints for the good of the organization.
• Involves employees in decision-making.
• Attend and participate in regional CNO calls and meetings.

Clinical Practice Leadership

• Understand and articulate patient care standards reflected in federal and state regulation, TJC, the state Nurse Practice Act, and organizational policies and procedures.
• Maintain knowledge of current nursing practice and roles and functions within nursing and other healthcare disciplines.
• Maintain current knowledge of patient care delivery systems and innovations.
• Ensure that nursing practice is consistent with current standards and current evidenced based practice.
• Ensure that the care delivery model, clinical environment of care and related technology is appropriate to needs of caregivers and patients.
• Serve as change agent when patient care work/workflow is redesigned.
• Advocate use of documented best practices.
• Teach and mentor others to routinely utilize evidenced based data and research.
• Assure that the clinical perspective is included in organizational decisions.
• Supports regional senior director and Tenet CNO.

Academic Relationships

• Provide a supportive and stimulating learning environment for nursing students.
• Participate in the academic community through advisory and collaborative efforts.
• Ensure that the educational system is aligned with organizational needs.
• Collaborate with nursing programs to provide required resources; evaluate graduates.
• Collaborate with academia in nursing research and incorporate nursing research into practice.

Resource Management

• Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of organizational revenue, expense performance and capital planning.
• Manage fiscal, human and material resources in a cost-effective manner.
• Design and maintain effective systems for resource management in nursing.
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