HonorHealth hiring Sr. Director Advanced Practice Providers in Scottsdale, Arizona, United States | LinkedIn (2024)

Overview Looking to be part of something more meaningful? At HonorHealth, you’ll be part of a team, creating a multi-dimensional care experience for our patients. You’ll have opportunities to make a difference. From our Ambassador Movement to our robust training and development programs, you can select where and how you want to make an impact. HonorHealth offers a diverse benefits portfolio for our full-time and part-time team members designed to help you and your family live your best lives. Visit honorhealth.com/benefits to learn more. Join us. Let’s go beyond expectations and transform healthcare together. HonorHealth is one of Arizona’s largest nonprofit healthcare systems, serving a population of five million people in the greater Phoenix metropolitan area. The comprehensive network encompasses six acute-care hospitals, an extensive medical group with primary, specialty and urgent care services, a cancer care network, outpatient surgery centers, clinical research, medical education, a foundation, an accountable care organization, community services and more. With nearly 14,000 team members, 3,700 affiliated providers and hundreds of volunteers dedicated to providing high quality care, HonorHealth strives to go beyond the expectations of a traditional healthcare system to improve the health and well-being of communities across Arizona. Learn more at HonorHealth.com. Responsibilities Job Summary This position provides clinical management, operational direction, and leadership for areas of responsibility. Serves as the leader as it relates to daily operations, personnel supervision, physician relationships, driving quality initiatives and supply cost control. Assists with the implementation of service line strategic plans, program development. The Senior Director, Advanced Practice Providers will provide strategic leadership and oversight for the daily operational responsibilities to Advance Practice Providers (NP, PA, CRNA, CNS and CNM) throughout the system. The Senior Director will cultivate and foster an empowered and engaged workforce by establishing and maintaining a practice environment consistent with the commitment to patient and family centered care, new knowledge and innovation, team collaboration and evidence-based practice. The Senior Director will help establish relationships and partner with departmental HR representatives, medical directors, department heads and organizational leaders to improve the integration and consistency of APPs across the continuum. All RN staff who have direct responsibility for the care of stroke patients must have knowledge of:

• Stroke symptoms and warning signs
• Protocols and pathways used to identify, evaluate and management of stroke patients
• NIHSS
• Stroke Alert activation and protocol
• Stroke quality indicators
• Available stroke patient education materials and community resources
• Educational requirements
• Stroke Center website resources Leadership: Partners with administrative, nursing, and departmental leaders across the enterprise to methodically operationalize the infrastructure for Advanced Practice Providers. Ensure effective communication of vision and models to advanced practice, medical, and nursing staff, and health system leadership and stakeholders. Identifies and addresses issues on topics such as APP practice, recruitment and retention, scope of practice, utilization, credentialing, orientation, competency, compliance, and professional development. Attends medical executive committee meetings and additional meetings as a voting member. Practice Model Optimization: Serves as an expert resource in the utilization and integration of established and emerging APP practice models across multiple venues of care throughout the enterprise. Creates systems to demonstrate APP value through outcomes/metrics including cost-effectiveness ratios, clinical outcomes, evidence of growth in quality, and improvement of patient care. Performance Evaluation and Management: Ensure there is a consistent process and standard for metric-based assessment of APP performance, the provision of effective feedback to APP staff and managers, and the development of individual plans for remediation or coaching for further professional growth. Training and Professional Development: Identify and provide opportunities for APPs to increase knowledge and skills aligned with education, licensure, and experience to promote professional development and accountability. Establish and maintain clinical AP Fellowships, residencies, and student programs. Recruitment and Retention: Coordinates centralized APP recruitment function and serve in an advisory capacity for job description development, hiring decisions, on-boarding, license and certification requirements, and market-sensitive compensation. Performance Metrics: Identifies internal and external benchmarks for evaluation of APP performance (billable and non-billable activities) and creates systems to measure APP value through outcome and process metrics, as appropriate. Credentialing and Privileging: Ensures ongoing review of role, scope of practice, and regulatory concerns for APPs. Educates and maintains relevant FPPE and OPPE processes and assists in establishing formal documents that detail scope of practice and privileges. Partners with Credentialing leadership to establish standards for credentialing documentation. Qualifications Education Master's Degree in Nursing from an accredited program or Master of Physician Assistant Studies is required. Required Experience 5 years direct clinical experience Required 2 years leading people, projects or teams Required Licenses and Certifications Physician Assistant OR Nurse Practitioner Required Basic Life Support (BLS) BLS Required Fingerprint Clearance Card - State Fingerprint Clearance Card, or within seven (7) days after employment shall apply and be eligible for a Fingerprint Clearance Card (Pediatric Behavorial Sites Only) Required