VP/CNO - Health Network

The VP/CNO reports directly to the SVP/President, UCSF Health Network, with a dotted-line reporting relationship to the System Chief Nurse Executive, UCSF Health. As a dyad partner to the Chief Medical Officer, UCSF Health Network, the CNO provides nursing leadership of clinical operations across the Network, aligning nursing priorities with Network goals and collaborating with health system leaders to address complex clinical and operational challenges. This position carries significant accountability for nursing performance across the Network’s community hospitals and ambulatory sites, understanding that nursing excellence and team engagement create the foundation for exceptional patient outcomes and sustainable Network growth.

The Chief Nursing Officer (CNO), Health Network, is a senior nursing leadership role responsible for driving clinical nursing excellence across the UCSF Health Network, including community hospitals and ambulatory divisions. Reporting to the President of the UCSF Health Network, with a matrix relationship to the UCSF Chief Nurse Executive, the CNO provides programmatic, operational, and strategic nursing leadership to drive growth, improve patient outcomes, and integrate nursing practice across the Network.

- Minimum eight to ten years of increasingly responsible experience in hospital management and strategic planning, in community hospitals with experience in matrixed leadership organizations. - Comprehensive and thorough understanding of all elements of health care delivery, including strategy, business planning, operations and financial conditions. - Change management skills to continually transition Network nursing services from current state to future state across a complex, multi-site, matrixed environment. - Expertise in evaluating Health System and organizational issues, initiating actions to make change, planning change with stakeholder buy-in and executing the plan while being flexible to the changing landscape. - Collaborative leadership skills to function in a highly complex and matrixed organizational environment, demonstrates expert skill in building collaborative relationships, developing strategies, and engaging in constructive problem-solving. - Relationship building skills to develop outstanding relationships at all levels of the organization in an environment that is managed through influence and relationships. - Expertise in all aspects of assigned functions, as well as development and management of operational and capital budgets. - Sets high standards of behavior, performance, quality, credibility, and integrity; exhibits judgment and business acumen necessary to raise performance to levels that would not otherwise be achieved. - Knowledge of management information systems and its relevance to nursing practice, quality and safety. - Knowledge of strategic planning and its relevance to nursing operations and future direction. - Demonstrated understanding of the roles of teaching, research and patient care in the academic medical center and active participation in improvements relevant to each mission. - Ability to comply with all nursing practice and Health System policies and procedures for infection control, safety, administrative and clinical practice. - Ability to comply with activities mandated by The Joint Commission/Title 22, CLIA, etc. - Prior experience in a unionized setting/environment. - Served in a Magnet® organization or understands the principles of shared governance and interdisciplinary collaboration. - Direct experience with Lean management and/or an understanding of the Principles of Lean Continuous Improvement.

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