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Children's Hospital Colorado has defined and delivered pediatric healthcare excellence for more than 100 years.

Here, the nation's brightest nurses, physicians, scientists, researchers, therapists, and care providers are creating the future of child health. With an optimist's outlook, a trailblazing spirit, and a celebrated history, we're making new strides every day.

We've been Magnet-designated four times by the American Nurses Credentialing Center and are consistently recognized among the best of the best pediatric hospitals with #1 rankings in Colorado and the region by U.S. News & World Report.

As a national leader in pediatric care, we serve children and families from all over the nation. Our System of Care includes four pediatric hospitals, 11 specialty care centers, 1,300+ outreach clinics and more than 10,000 healthcare professionals representing the full spectrum of pediatric care specialties.

Here, we know it takes all of us, every role, to deliver the best possible care to each child and family we treat.

That's why we build our teams toward a foundation of equity in access, advancement, and opportunity. We know teams of individuals with different identities and backgrounds can nurture creativity and innovation. We know we can see, treat, and heal children better when our team reflects the diversity of our patient population. We strive to attract and retain diverse talent because we know a truly inclusive and equitable workforce will help us one day realize our most basic calling: to heal every child who comes through our doors.

A career at Children's Colorado will challenge you, inspire you, and motivate you to make a difference in the life of a child. Here, it's different.

Children's Hospital Colorado is seeking a transformational, innovative, and operationally savvy Senior Vice President/Chief Nursing Executive (SVP/CNE) responsible for strategically organizing, planning, directing and evaluating all nursing functions and other patient care areas (e.g., social services, emergency medicine, pharmacy, rehabilitation and respiratory care services) throughout CHCO. This position recommends and implements policies and procedures to improve efficiency and delivery of quality patient care.

The Chief Nursing Executive encourages innovative and transformational leadership at the department level empowering nurses' decision-making control over nurse practice and establishes interdisciplinary teams throughout the organization, supporting nursing care and patient care services. The CNE will be responsible for advancing all nursing functions, including developing a collaborative team that possesses balanced capabilities; holding the team members accountable, both individually and as a group; and creating a motivating team environment. This executive will collaborate with other members of the executive leadership team to build programs and initiatives to help advance the success of CHCO and will have a close working relationship with the president and chief executive officer (CEO), Jena Hausmann.

Compensation
Minimum Salary: $395,520
The salary for the position varies based on the candidate's qualifications.

• Education: Master's Degree in public health, hospital or business administration, or related field
  • Equivalency: Bachelor's degree plus two years of leadership experience in lieu of Master's degree.
• Minimum of 10 years of nursing leadership experience
  • Preferred: 5 years of experience in executive leadership
  • Preferred: Extensive senior management experience in large, complex hospital systems, academic medicine, university and patient-centric environments
• Registered Nurse and an ANCC recognized certification. Nurse Executive or Nurse Executive Advanced required within 12 months of hire. Active member in a nursing or professional healthcare organization.

• Develops mission, vision and strategy for the organization. Reviews and approves strategic plans, annual goals, and performance metrics for operations, ensuring conformity to the organization's vision.
• Functions as a member of executive leadership, providing guidance and direction to leaders and team members in the achievement of organizational goals and objectives; evaluates organizational performance. Creates organizational design for entire organization based on vision; serves as a champion of organizational culture, influencing culture change to support strategic objectives. . Develops, implements, and maintains business segments and service lines to meet organizational needs. Handles operational and customer service escalations.
• Manages communications to the organization on mission, vision, strategic objectives; supports communications on major projects and initiatives that are generated from supported operations. Maintains effective working relationships with executives across the organization and the board of directors to drive performance towards the organization's strategic plan; builds and maintains relationships with external stakeholders and community groups to define and support both operational and organizational strategic initiatives.
• Assigns and reviews annual goals and strategic goals, provides work instruction (OTJ or formal training) and develops leaders. Evaluates performance of leaders, providing continuous feedback. Manages discipline and performance issues; hires and fires leaders. Reviews and approved resource plans for operations.
• Carries overall financial management responsibility for one or more operations or the entire organization, reviewing and approving recommendations made by leaders.
• Develops and implements broad operational policies; serves as executive sponsor on major projects for functional areas. Provides advice and guidance to board of directors on the operational impact of strategic initiatives.
• Ensures compliance against federal, state, and local regulations for operations and for the organization.

It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. Be aware that none of the questions are intended to imply illegal preferences or discrimination based on non-job-related information.

Here, you matter. As a Children's Hospital Colorado team member, you will receive a competitive pay and benefits package designed to take care of your needs that includes base pay, incentives, paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, company provided life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, 403b employer match (retirement savings), a robust wellness program, and access to professional development tools, including an education benefit to help you advance your career.

As part of our Total Rewards package, Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April.

Children's Colorado delivers annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on their performance over the previous year.