Director Perioperative Services Job Listing at Kaiser Permanente in Wailuku, HI (Job ID 3293954-2024-04-27)

Description

Job Summary:



Provides strategic, administrative and financial accountability for planning, directing, staffing, coordinating, and controlling functions and activities in the perioperative service areas. Develops and implements operational strategies and regulatory compliance for all services and patient care delivered in perioperative and procedural care areas. The continuum of perioperative care includes ambulatory care unit; preoperative unit; operating room; post-anesthesia care unit; sterile processing department; anesthesia services; and assigned procedural and outpatient treatment areas at Maui Memorial Medical Center. Creates and sustains a coordinated infrastructure for the operative patient phases of care with standardized workflows, evaluation tools, and metrics to document the management and efficiencies of the services. Identifies business opportunities for providing new services or enhancing existing services. Coordinates and directs activities between and within various substructures of organization to accomplish departmental and organizational goals. Develops and maintains key relationships with Medical Staff, key community providers, administrative peers and select community partners and programs. This position manages staff.



Essential Responsibilities:

• Oversees 24 hour resource management and performance of perioperative services operationally and fiscally.


• Collaborates with physicians, clinical managers, and other members of the health care team to promote safe and effective patient care in perioperative services and procedural areas.


• Demonstrates effective communication, consultation, negotiation, and collaboration skills with members of the perioperative team and other stakeholders.


• Establishes and oversees on going staff development, education, training, orientation and in-service needs.


• Verifies programs, content, and criteria to be used to educate and train staff in the perioperative services department following professional organization standard requirements and safety guidelines (example ACS, AORN, ASPAN etc.).


• Advises and directs activities of perioperative management team who are responsible for daily activities in each department or specialty area.


• Evaluates practices and ongoing improvements for the perioperative phases of care and patient care delivery system.


• Analyzes, plans, and makes recommendations for future departmental planning needs, regarding physical expansion, renovation and or expansion of services provided.


• Develops and manages operating and capital budget including personnel, supplies, equipment and capital expenditures.


• Evaluates their current level of effectiveness.


• Promotes organizational goals and establishes standards of practice, goals and objectives for departments.


• Develops and implements policies and procedures to reflect same for each specific unit.


• Directs and develops programs for all phases of preoperative, operative, and postoperative care provided for perioperative services department.


• Collaborates with risk management, nursing, and hospital administration to monitor and report pertinent patient care information.


• Assures departmental compliance with all hospital policies, TJC, DOH, OSHA, state and federal legislative requirements and recommendations.


• Collaborates with medical staff and vendors to screen and evaluate products.


• Develops, oversees, and monitors departmental Quality Assurance Program.


• Coordinates Q.M. activities with other departments to assure problem identification and resolution.


• Evaluates, formulates, and regulates activities and policies for maintaining regulatory and accepted standards for sterilization and infection control.


• Facilitates scheduling practices and effective use of OR services.


• Monitors block utilization and coordinates improvements of utilization with Medical Staff.


• Coordinates case requests and scheduling processes with outside providers.


• Serves as resource and participates as member of O.R. related committees and task forces.