Enterprise Chief Nurse Executive

Title: Enterprise Chief Nurse Executive

Organization: Advocate Health - Charlotte, North Carolina

Position Location Options: Select one of three major markets: Charlotte, Chicago, or Milwaukee

About Advocate Health: Advocate Health is the nation’s third largest, nonprofit healthcare enterprise, achieving over 27B in revenue in our first post-merger year. In December of 2022, four mission driven health systems came together to do more, be better, and go faster to provide equitable care for ALL in North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, and Wisconsin:

• Atrium Health
• Advocate Health Care
• Aurora Health Care
• Wake Forest University School of Medicine

Headquartered in North Carolina, Advocate Health operates 69 hospitals and over 1K ambulatory centers. Together, we support the careers of 115K team members who share in the mission of providing safe, high-quality care to 6M patients annually. Our 42K nurses are pivotal in driving innovation, quality improvement and patient satisfaction. Our complementary strengths, diverse experiences and enhanced capabilities enable us to reimagine health and well-being to deliver the best health outcomes and make care more accessible and affordable for all.

HOW YOU’LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE:

Given our vision, the Enterprise CNE of Advocate Health must be a strategic and transformational leader for the enterprise, driving change within a complex, rapidly changing environment with cost and operating model pressures. The executive plays an integral role in delivering on the organization's Strategic and Operational Priorities.

Serving as a member of the CEO cabinet, the CNE oversees the enterprise nursing organization. This executive provides strategic and operational leadership for all nursing, and other designated patient care functions and services of the healthcare system in alignment with the enterprise strategy and operating model. Responsible for assessing planning, coordinating, implementing, and evaluating nursing practice for all regions across Advocate Health. Accountability for ensuring high quality, safe and effective nursing care, competency of clinical staff, and efficient resource management. Facilitates the design and implementation of patient care delivery, recommending strategies to improve services, reach established goals, achieve target outcomes, and contributes to profitability including designing and driving transformational nursing ways of working for the future. Oversees the talent lifecycle for nursing staff including creating a work environment that makes Advocate Health the “Best Place to Care”. Represents all nursing concerns to the board and Advocate Health leadership.

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

1. Board/Committee Governance

2. Enterprise Nursing Strategy and Innovation: Collaborates with system nursing clinical and administrative leaders to develop and implement a vision that includes coordinating safe, quality patient care and nursing practices that supports the overall system strategy and optimizes system resources. Aligns multiple system facilities and diverse constituencies under a common vision and mission related to nursing practice. Implements nursing strategic and operational initiatives that ensure the organization maintains national prominence.

3. Nurse Liaison and Ambassador: Internal and external to the community and enterprise, serves as the key liaison between nurses, physicians, and other organizational leadership.

4. Quality, Patient Safety & Continuous Improvement: Continuously evaluates existing care models and workflows; serves as a change agent to ensure effective, efficient, patient-centered care. Establishes and maintains scalable systems for developing and maintaining evidence-based practices. Contributes to the development and implementation of the enterprise's high reliability patient safety programs. Identifies, mitigates, and takes action to correct areas of risk/liability in patient care. Collaborates across disciplines and departments to address serious safety concerns.

5. Operations & Financial Management: Oversees enterprise nursing operations and performs ongoing assessment for operational excellence and financial performance of Advocate Health nursing.

6. Nursing Talent Management: Oversees the effectiveness of nursing staff in managing care. Oversees the effective recruiting, onboarding, performance, engagement, development, recognition, and retention of nursing staff. Ensures staff is clinically competent and trained on their role in patient safety, performance improvement, and risk management.

7. Patient Experience: Collaborated with patient and consumer experience to drive strategy and action across the continuum resulting in care that is superior in quality, safety, and experience and evidenced by meeting/exceeding Advocate Health and national benchmarks.

8. Work Environment: Supports a safe culture that assures accountability and respects values and individual contributions. Enables an environment that encourages service excellence, cooperative collaboration, accountability, and results.

WHAT YOU NEED:

License, Certification:

1. Active and current registered nurse license in the state of NC, IL, or WI is required.

2. Current CENP or NEA certification preferred.

Education, Professional Development:

1. Master's degree in nursing, healthcare administration or MBA required. If graduate degree is not in nursing, a Bachelor of Science in Nursing is required; and

2. Doctorate in Nursing or in related field required. (**Degrees in process considered.)

Work Experience, Skills & Abilities:

1. Typically requires 15 years of management experience in nursing and health care administration which includes experiences in advancing nursing practices and strategies, driving the integration of services, and directing nursing research and education programs within a large, complex health care environment.

2. Sensitive to, understands and encourages cultural diversity throughout the system and the community.

3. Broad and comprehensive knowledge nursing systems, theories, practices, and regulatory standards.

4. Consensus builder who is mindful of the dynamics within a large, complex healthcare organization.

5. Change leader that can successfully transform culture, programs, and processes. Navigates and leads others through complex, difficult change.

6. Working knowledge, leadership experience and implementation of quality improvement methodologies (e.g., IHI, Malcolm Baldrige, LEAN/Six Sigma). Understanding of the Magnet designation.

Taking care of our team members and leaders is a top priority. We strive to develop and maintain an inclusive culture where everyone feels welcome, valued, and thrives. Supporting career and professional development is one facet of caring for our leaders through structured leadership onboarding, enhanced tuition reimbursement, progressive developmental programs, succession planning and mentoring performance excellence. Competitive compensation, eligible annual incentive plans and comprehensive health care packages are top of mind to care for your financial health and well-being. If needed, our comprehensive relocation package helps get you here.

*Comprehensive Relocation Assistance available*