AVP Nursing Ambulatory & Med Grp Svcs

Join a team that shares your calling

At MultiCare, you’re more than just a job title — you’re part of a team built on trust that cares for each other, our patients and our communities. Belonging here means living our mission and values every day. If your purpose and passions align with ours, you’ll find a place to grow, do meaningful work and build a career you love in a community that feels like home.

FTE: 1.0, Shift: Day, Schedule: Business Hours

The Pay Scale is $199,804,80 to $287,539,20

Position Summary

Provides leadership for advancing, developing, refining, and innovating nursing clinical delivery operations throughout the Ambulatory/Medical Group care settings in accordance with nursing policies and procedures. Collaborates with operational and medical staff leaders in ambulatory patient care, ensuring alignment of goals and outcome measures with the network and system. Brings the acute and ambulatory care settings together to create seamless care pathways for patients; contributes to the development and implementation of the organization’s plan for providing nursing and other non-provider clinical care to patients for all ambulatory or clinic-based programs.

Provides strategic leadership across a large, multi-site ambulatory and medical group platform, ensuring consistent clinical practice standards, operational excellence, and coordinated patient care delivery across diverse care settings.

Responsibilities

• Provide executive leadership for ambulatory nursing strategy, including clinical quality outcomes, workforce planning, and care delivery model design
• Serves as a key member of the leadership team providing strategic direction on patient care and nursing related issues. Leads effectively as a team member in a dynamic executive environment in a matrix organization and promotes teamwork within and across the organization by maintaining positive relationships and utilizing effective problem-solving skills. Collaborates with the system chief nurse executive, presidents and executive teams in ambulatory and clinic structure networks and other key stakeholders to lead and support population health efforts.
• Fosters a culture of provider, employee, patient and family engagement.
• Leads and strengthens cross-functional collaboration across Ambulatory/Medical Group providers, clinical leaders, academic partners, and hospital operations to advance integrated, patient-centered care delivery.
• Builds and sustains high-performing, engaged teams by fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement across ambulatory nursing and clinical operations.
• Develops and empowers leaders and staff to achieve strategic, operational, and professional goals, including supporting growth, recognizing performance, and advancing succession planning.
• Drives a culture of engagement and inclusion by creating structured opportunities for staff input, feedback, and shared decision-making to inform practice improvements and operational enhancements.
• Promotes a supportive and healing environment for patients and staff through intentional team development, strong professional relationships, and alignment of organizational values with daily practice.
• Responsible and accountable for establishing and maintaining clinical quality excellence in nursing practice, as well as effectiveness and efficiency of nursing operations within defined areas of responsibility; enhances value in all clinical services by increasing quality, constructing cost effective care delivery models and improve operational efficiencies
• Responsible for outpatient nursing practice and education assuring safe, reliable, and efficient care delivery that is based on evidenced based practice.
• Regularly displays and encourages ethical behavior in the areas of business ethics, legal compliance, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, vendor relationships and the reporting of questionable activities. Serves as a role model and mentor to nursing leaders.
• Maintains knowledge and achieves compliance with federal, state, and local regulatory requirements, licensure, accreditation requirements, record procedures and internal controls. Regularly informs and updates staff on organizational and industry issues.
• Works to continuously improve patient services while enhancing service to patients and optimizing relationships with business partners.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Nursing, Healthcare Administration, or related field
• Active RN license
• 10 years progressive nursing experience
• 5 years experience in leadership, preferably in the ambulatory setting

Why MultiCare?

Rooted in the local community

Partnering with patients, families and neighbors across the Pacific Northwest for more than 140 years.

Growth and education

Competitive tuition assistance, award-winning residencies, fellowships and career development to invest in you.

Well-being and support

Generous PTO, Code Lavender and Employee Assistance Programs to help you maintain balance and feel cared in your work and life.

Living our values

Respect, integrity, kindness and collaboration guide how we care for patients, communities and each other.

Belonging for all

Resource Groups and outreach programs help ensure every team member feels safe, seen, heard and valued.

Pacific Northwest lifestyle

Work and live where natural beauty, adventure and strong community connections are part of everyday life.

Pay and Benefit Expectations

We provide a comprehensive benefits package, including competitive salary, medical, dental and retirement benefits and paid time off. As required by various pay transparency laws, we share a competitive range of compensation for candidates hired into each position. Pay is influenced by factors specific to applicants, including but not limited to: skill set, level of experience, and certification(s) and/or education. If this position is associated with a union contract, pay will be reflective of the appropriate step on the pay scale to which the applicant’s years of experience align.

Associated benefit information can be viewed here.