Chief Nursing Officer

Chief Nursing Officer

Inspired by faith. Driven by innovation. Powered by humankindness. CommonSpirit Health is building a healthier future for all through its integrated health services. As one of the nation's largest nonprofit Catholic healthcare organizations, CommonSpirit Health delivers more than 20 million patient encounters annually through more than 2,300 clinics, care sites and 158 hospital-based locations, in addition to its home-based services and virtual care offerings.

As our Chief Nursing Officer, you will define and execute the strategic vision for patient care system-wide, ensuring exceptional, high-quality, and compassionate care delivery. This executive role drives operational excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement. Every day you will strategically direct patient care units and services, fostering clinical excellence. Responsibilities include mentoring senior leaders, setting system-level patient safety and compliance, and optimizing workflows for superior outcomes. You'll represent patient care at the executive level, driving key initiatives. To succeed, you need exceptional executive leadership, visionary strategic management, and profound clinical expertise. You must influence a culture of excellence, drive transformative improvement, and deliver organizational patient care goals, with a proven history of leading complex clinical teams and shaping change effectively.

• Participates in hospital's decision‐making processes by collaborating with leaders from the governing body, health system management, hospital leadership council, medical staff and clinical areas in developing strategic plans, budgets, resource allocation, operational plans and policies.
• Leads nursing leadership in the development of a nursing mission, vision, philosophy, strategic plan congruent with the hospital's mission, vision, and strategic plan.
• Mentors and Develops managers and staff to assume leadership roles both formally and informally, via role modeling and facilitating staff participation in a shared leadership structure.
• Directs patient care team effectively as team leader and change agent.
• Develops and Implements effective communication channels to provide information to all staff members; provide the forum for staff to verbalize concerns, issues and ideas in a non‐threatening environment.
• Develops and continually enhances a positive working relationship and the ability to problem solve with other members of the patient care delivery team including physicians and other departments.

Required

• Registered Nurse (RN) active license in the state of employment or compact license
• Master's Degree in Nursing; If Master's Degree is not in nursing, then must possess a Bachelor's Degree in Nursing and Masters in a related field (M.H.A., M.B.A., or M.S.)
• Ten years of healthcare experience
• 5 years of leadership experience in nursing

St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center provides inpatient and outpatient medical and surgical services to residents of Pasadena, Deer Park, La Porte, Baytown, and Clear Lake. The facility includes 53 medical/surgical beds, eight ICU beds and three endoscopy rooms, and offers a range of primary and specialized services—wound care, general surgery, gastroenterology, occupational health, heart and vascular, women's services, diagnostic imaging, outpatient rehab services, and sleep disorders.

CommonSpirit Health™ is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, parental status, ancestry, veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information about your EEO rights as an applicant, please click here [PDF].

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