Director - Cardiovascular Service Line

PeaceHealth is seeking a Nursing Leader to drive continuous improvement and foster a positive and collaborative work environment for the Cardiovascular Service Line at Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver, Washington.

Join our nursing leadership team in this Director of Cardiovascular Services role, providing leadership and oversight for clinical operations and nursing practice of the following service line departments: Cath Lab, CVOR, Cardiac Prep & Recovery, Echocardiology, Cardiac Rehab and our PeaceHealth Medical Group CV clinics.

About Peacehealth: PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center is a 450-bed level II trauma center hospital that is part of PeaceHealth, a non-profit mission driven healthcare system in the Pacific Northwest. Located in Vancouver, WA, Southwest and our multi-specialty medical group provide comprehensive specialty care for more than 280,000 patients annually in Southwest Washington.

Position Summary

This role is responsible for developing, promoting, and implementing a high-performing clinical services and professional nursing practice environment that ensures the delivery of exceptional patient care with a focus on safety, reliability, efficiency, and high-quality outcomes. Position drives continuous improvement efforts to enhance service, operations, and the overall patient experience while ensuring seamless coordination of clinical support services. Additionally, this role fosters a positive work environment that supports caregivers, promotes growth, enhances communication, ensures collaboration, and strengthens job satisfaction. Serving as a key liaison between medical staff, system programs, and hospital operations, the Director facilitates collaborative professional relationships that contribute to a healing and supportive environment for both patients and healthcare teams. This position upholds the organization's mission and core values, enforces compliance with nursing policies and procedures, and holds staff accountable for meeting industry best practices and regulatory standards. In collaboration with the Vice President of Surgical and Cardiovascular Services and system peers, position leads efforts to advance, develop, refine, and innovate clinical delivery operations. The role ensures that quality and performance improvement initiatives meet established targets and that all activities comply with federal, state, and local regulations. Position is also responsible for maintaining continuous survey readiness to uphold regulatory and accreditation standards within assigned areas.

Position Details:

• In conjunction with the VP of Surgical and Cardiovascular Services, leads committees or councils to establish strategic direction, agenda, monitoring and facilitation of work, projects and outcomes related to clinical excellence and practice and performance improvement. Works closely with leadership throughout the organization to maximize operational efficiencies and meet capital and operating budget goals. Participates in operational planning and implementation of organizational strategic plans and ensures overall operational performance. Under the direction of the VP of Surgical and Cardiovascular Services, designs and directs the implementation of programs and processes to support organizational mission and goals. Assists and mentors Nursing Leadership in growth and development.
• Promotes change, facilitates redesign, and implements systems and processes to maintain compliance with regulatory standards and accreditation within all programs and clinical units.
• Creates and monitors infrastructure, systems, processes and standards to achieve desired outcomes in collaboration with medical directors, leadership, department chairs and medical staff.
• Develops patient care programs and implement an effective ongoing program to measure, assess and improve the quality and outcomes of nursing care delivered to patients.
• Partners with medical staff and nursing colleagues to ensure practice and standards are current and that care is delivered across the continuum.
• Leads continuous improvement on issues including patient safety, healthcare quality, emerging technology and innovation. Maintains alignment with system and regional direction on these issues.
• Manages operational units as assigned including providing leadership for clinical excellence, personnel management, fiscal accountability, operational effectiveness, and positive relations with other departments, members of the medical staff, physician practices and all stakeholders within scope and span of control.
• Develops effective interdisciplinary relationships with medical staff to ensure the presence of an on-going quality improvement program by providing leadership for patient safety, quality improvement, service excellence and physician satisfaction.
• Develops budget and accountable for all operational departments assigned ensuring all financial performance measures are met.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Required: Graduate of an Accredited School of Nursing
• Required: Bachelor's Degree in Nursing, Masters preferred
• Required: Washington State Registered Nurse License
• Required: Minimum of 5 years progressively responsible Cardiovascular Service Line leadership experience.
• Preferred: cath lab and/or CVOR nursing experience, experience with collective bargaining unions, previous experience working with clinical teams and physician groups to reach consensus

Compensation and Benefits : PeaceHealth is committed to the overall wellbeing of our caregivers: physical, emotional, financial, social, and spiritual. We offer a competitive and comprehensive total rewards package, including:

• A competitive salary range of $166,296 - $249,454
• Relocation Assistance
• Some of the many benefits included in our benefits package are full medical/dental/vision coverage; 403b retirement plan employer base and matching contributions; paid time off; employer-paid life and disability insurance with additional buyup coverage options; tuition and continuing education reimbursement; wellness benefits, and expanded EAP and mental health program.

For questions or additional information, please contact Lisa Wishard, Recruiter, at Lwishard@peacehealth.org.

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Salary : $166,296 - $249,454