Food Services Director - Nursing Home jobs in Helena, MT

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The Nursing Director is responsible for providing leadership and operational direction to Surgical Services at St. James Hospital. The director will partner with the Chief Nursing Officer, along with additional leaders and facility management to ensure optimal patient care, attainment of financial goals, and coaching and development of the management team. The director has accountability for all department rolling up to Surgical Services at St. James, along with budget management, budget development, supply acquisition, process improvement, and employee performance evaluations. The director will develop goals to meet the Intermountain/Regional Strategic Plan and hold employees accountable to those goals.

Along with offering a chance to work in a stable, strong, mission-based environment, this role offers the opportunity to experience Montana's diverse culture and incredible landscape. You'll be able to explore abundant outdoor recreational opportunities, including skiing, hiking, and fishing, as well as stunning national parks and forests, all within hours of where you'll call home. Becoming a part of the Intermountain team means gaining a family and finding a place to plant your roots.

Benefits are one of the ways we encourage health for you and your family. Our generous package includes medical, dental, and vision coverage. But health is more than a well-working body: it encompasses body, mind, and spiritual well-being. To that end, we've launched a Healthy Living program to address your holistic health. Healthy Living includes financial incentives, digital tools, tobacco cessation, classes, counseling, and paid time off. We also offer financial wellness tools and retirement planning.

This is an exempt, full-time position. To show our commitment to you and assist with your transition into our organization, we may offer a sign-on and/or relocation bonus when applicable.

With this position, you are eligible to participate in an annual pay-for-performance opportunity ("AP4P"). This plan enables Intermountain Health to provide leaders with an additional performance compensation opportunity. The AP4P opportunities are calculated as a percentage of your base salary. Awards are paid out based on attainment of selected Intermountain Health Board-approved goals.

As the Nursing Director, you need to know how to:

• Oversee and direct the surgical services department at St. James Hospital.

• Develop the strategic planning process, for day-to-day operations, standards of care and attainment of organizational goals.

• Problem solve among interdepartmental disciplines, along with allocating available resources to promote efficient, effective, safe and compassionate nursing care based on current standards of practice.

• Responsible for shared decision-making and professional autonomy by providing input into executive-level decisions, and by keeping managers informed of executive level activities.

• Implement the vision, mission, and core values of the Nursing Philosophy of CARING and Intermountain Health's Healing Commitments. Operational Effectiveness.

• Be accountable for the financial management of designated departments/service lines, which includes the development, implementation and monitoring of annual capital/operating and personnel (FTEs) budgets, along with supporting and educating the management team for meeting financial goals.

• Model and foster an environment of professionalism and ensure competent and sufficient number of leadership staff to meet department and patient care needs.

• Guide the development of recruitment, retention, and employee satisfaction that keeps high performers in place and maintains focus on succession planning.

• Act as a role model through the demonstration of personal professional development, continuous learning and competency improvement.

• Participate in and contribute to educational offerings and visibility in professional organizations.

• Assure the delivery of safe high-quality patient care through ongoing process evaluation and reviewing clinical outcome metrics.

• Implement clinical program protocols, ensuring that ongoing monitoring and process improvement occurs to assure goals are achieved.

• Collaborate with departments, physicians, service lines, and across the facility and region on benchmarks and best practices to ensure optimal patient care, along with medical director and system colleagues in the development and implementation of clinical program goals.

• Participate in a professional nursing organization appropriate to position and service line.

• Assure that processes and programs are in place that supports the achievement of patient satisfaction and service quality goals.

• Act as a leader/mentor for staff in Healing Connections and promote and support department-based and service line research activities.

• Partner with physicians at the service-line level to achieve clinical, operational, and service goals.

• Participate in community outreach activities and support staff participation in outside community organizations such as volunteer health clinics, health fairs and advisory boards for not-for-profit organizations.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master's degree from an accredited university is required

• Either the bachelor's or master's degree must be in Nursing (degree will be verified)

• RN License, required

• Basic Life Support certification (BLS) for healthcare providers

• 3 years management experience and 2 years clinical experience, required

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We care about your well-being - mind, body, and spirit - which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

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Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.