Clinical Director - General Surgery - Full Time

Company: CHRISTUS Health
Location: Lake Charles
Posted on: January 1, 2026

Job Description:

Job Description Description Summary: Manages the nursing services and staff for a department; ensures quality and full compliance with relevant policies and standards. Responsibilities: - Implementing and monitoring programs and practices for the delivery of safe and efficient quality nursing care for patients and their families - Ensuring consistent application of nursing services policies and standards throughout the organization - Monitoring patient outcomes and the quality and effectiveness of nursing care - Overseeing performance of teams; identifying and addressing staff training and development needs - Apprising medical staff, department heads, and administrators in matters related to nursing service and strategies Standard I: Financial Management - Recognizes the impact of reimbursement on revenue - Understands the relationship between values-based purchasing and quality outcomes with revenue and reimbursement - Creates, monitors, and analyzes a budget, explaining variance - Conducts ongoing evaluation of productivity, forecasting future revenue and expenses - Documents capital appropriations and project authorizations Standard II. Human Resources Management - Evaluates and specifies the critical resources required to accomplish the team's objectives - Initiates requests for required resources based on staff competency with patient acuity - Allocates team resources responsibly and equitably within the scope of labor laws - Calculates resource usage to set a baseline for comparison - Discovers opportunities to improve resource utilization - Implements changes in role consistent with the scope of practice - Anticipates and plans for admission/discharge/transfer needs to facilitate patient flow - Resolves conflicts in a wide variety of situations, such as workload allocation, schedule overlap etc. - Adjusts management and personal style to fit the needs of different people and different situations - Explores motivational factors and tailors motivational efforts to individual needs and situations for the department - Conducts evaluations on personnel performance at the workplace and recommends improvement plans - Coaches others on operating personnel management systems and their processes Standard III. Relationship Management and Influencing Behaviors - Situation Management - Identifies issues that require immediate attention - Applies principles of crisis management to handle situations as necessary - Manages conflict - Promotes team dynamics - Mentors and coaches staff - Promotes Professional Management - Promotes and encourages stress management - Encourages participation in professional action - Applies principles of self-awareness - Fosters a healthy work environment - Diversity - Understands the components of cultural competence as they apply to the workforce - Maintains an environment of fairness and processes to support it - Capitalizes on differences to foster highly effective work groups Standard VI. Performance Improvement/Safe Practice/Quality Care/Regulations - Assesses customer and patient satisfaction while developing and implementing strategies to address satisfaction issues - Provides direct service to internal or external customers - Facilitates the resolution of customer problems, issues, or concerns - Monitors and promotes workplace safety requirements resulting in positive patient outcomes - Applies systems thinking knowledge as an approach to analysis and decision-making - Demonstrates accountability for nursing research and quality improvement activities - Provides evidence-based nursing care - Promotes and communicates patient information effectively across the continuum of care Standard V. Leadership - Serves as a leader of patient care - Utilizes an appropriate style of leadership: autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire/free rein, etc. - Demonstrates leadership qualities: intelligence, influence, determination, integrity, confidence - Manages own behaviors during interactions, such as feedback giving, to shape workplace events - Utilizes positive reinforcement to motivate and attain desired behaviors; increases productivity - Employs leadership theories, such as contingency and transformational, and associated techniques - Applies techniques of “action learning” to problem solve and personally reflect on decisions Requirements: Education - Graduate of a Registered Nursing program, Bachelors of Science in Nursing required - Master's degree in Nursing, Health Administration, Business Administration, Nursing, or related advanced degree in health related field preferred Experience - Minimum of 3-5 years’ of clinical patient care experience in a relevant setting - Minimum of 2 years’ of healthcare leadership Licenses, Registrations, or Certifications - RN license in good standing in state of employment or a compact state, if applicable - Registered Nurse (RN) required - American Heart Association Basic Life Support required Work Schedule: 5 Days - 8 Hours Work Type: Full Time

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