Job Description

Staff Specialist Healthcare:  Supports the Perioperative Associate Chief Nursing Officer

Provides highly responsible, complex administrative support for health system senior leadership. 

Coordinates the strategic planning, development, and implementation of new or changed administrative policy and procedures, programs, projects, and activities. Provides staff support to executive groups, including coordination of meetings, forums, agendas, and assistance in preparing and reviewing materials for discussion.

Collaborates with the Senior Nursing Leaders, Clinical Nursing Directors, Supervisors, and other UMH leadership and staff. Employees in this classification typically analyze, compare, and evaluate various courses of action and have the authority to make independent decisions on matters of significance, free from immediate direction, within the scope of their responsibilities. Primary activities and decision-making authority are performed independently affecting business operation to a substantial degree. Under FLSA, incumbents in this position meet the criteria for exempt status. 

Reports directly to the Perioperative Associate Chief Nursing Officer.

• Provide executive staff assistance to the Associate Chief Nursing Officer.
• Represent the Department of Nursing on clinical operations issues within Adult Perioperative Services.
• Provide professional staff support on all aspects of leadership meetings and forums requiring independent judgment and planning. Attend leadership meetings as directed by the ACNO, summarize proceedings, and efficiently distribute to those in attendance so that actions can be implemented and monitored.
• Obtain and provide back-up information required to make strategic priorities progress smoothly, including analyzing, summarizing, and/or reviewing data; reporting findings, interpreting results, and/or making recommendations to assist achievement of goals.
• Coordinate and assist with Adult Perioperative projects, analyze proposals, assist with metric tracking, make recommendations, as appropriate and assigned.
• Analyze proposals and make recommendations, as appropriate.
• Coordinate, review, and summarize relevant literature sources and briefing requests, as assigned.
• Collaborate across departments to evaluate, design, and facilitate implementation of institutional programs.
• Research and analyze operational issues including workflow and design.
• Collaborate with nursing colleagues and management from other departments to improve processes and resolve operational issues.
• Prepare reports, proposals, presentations, A3's, findings, conclusions, recommendations, and correspondence related to various projects for executive management review.
• Represent the Associate Chief Nursing Officer on committees, project teams, in resolution of patient care problems and in contacts with external agencies and organizations.
• Participate in the selection, training, and evaluation of nursing management staff. 
• Prepare administrative and financial reports, including necessary statistical analysis, as assigned. 

• Current licensure as a Registered Nurse in the state of Michigan.
• Master's Degree in Nursing or related field such as Health Care Administration, Public Health, or Business. Bachelor's Degree in management, health care or a related field.
• Minimum of three (3) to five (5) years practicing / managing in a hospital setting.
• Demonstrated leadership and management skills, including personnel management and the ability to perform as a role model for Nursing Staff.
• Demonstrated analytic skills of financial and clinical data.
• Demonstrated excellent computer skills
• Demonstrated excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate in a manner that fosters teambuilding and to provide visionary direction for team members.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with nurses, administrators, physicians, peers, and subordinates.
• Demonstrated knowledge of and commitment to the principles of Patient and Family Centered Care with evidence of successful implementation of initiatives positively impacting patient care.
• Experience with change management process. 
• Lean Training and experience

NOTE: Required qualifications must be met by the candidate to be interviewed and considered for the position.

RESUME REQUIRED (for both internal & external applicants):  

You must attach a complete and accurate resume to be fully considered for this position.

• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with diverse, interdisciplinary teams, and represent the ACNO as required to a wide range of external and internal parties is required.
• Advanced skills in computer software applications such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are necessary.
• Excellent verbal, writing, punctuation, spelling, grammatical skills, and proof-reading skills to facilitate and expedite communication is necessary.
• Demonstrated knowledge of and commitment to the principles of Patient and Family-Centered Care.
• Demonstrated ability to lead efforts of complex change.
• Demonstrated Leadership roles in quality and safety efforts
• Experience in fundamental aspects of root cause analysis and successful action planning
• Familiar with Michigan Medicine policies and procedures
• Familiar with Michigan Medicine nursing specific policies, procedures and the UMPNC contract
• Experience in a complex bargained for work environment
• Familiarity with the continuous quality improvement LEAN processes
• Training and/or experience in process improvement

Required qualifications must be met by the candidate in order to be interviewed and considered for the position. 

If you have questions regarding this posting or would like assistance with nursing opportunities please contact Nurse Recruitment at (734) 936-5183.

Hours: 40 hours/week

Shift: 5 days a week, Shift and hours will flex based on departmental needs

Location: University Hospital, OR Administration

Michigan Medicine conducts background screening and pre-employment drug testing on job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent job offer and may use a third party administrator to conduct background screenings.  Background screenings are performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Report Act.

Michigan Medicine improves the health of patients, populations and communities through excellence in education, patient care, community service, research and technology development, and through leadership activities in Michigan, nationally and internationally.  Our mission is guided by our Strategic Principles and has three critical components; patient care, education and research that together enhance our contribution to society.

Job openings are posted for a minimum of seven calendar days. This job may be removed from posting boards and filled anytime after the minimum posting period has ended.

The University of Michigan is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

About University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

A great university is made so by its faculty and staff, and Michigan is recognized as one of the best universities to work for in the country. The Michigan culture is known for engaging faculty and staff in all facets of the university to create a workplace that is vibrant and stimulating.For two consecutive years, the Chronicle of Higher Education has placed U-M in its "Great Colleges to Work For" survey. In particular, the university earns high marks for strong relations between faculty and administrators, a collaborative system of governance, strong pay and benefits, and a healthy work/life balance.

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