Here is the Chief Nursing Officer opportunity you have been looking for!  At Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center, we are small but mighty in delivering high quality, compassionate care to our diverse patient population. We have a welcoming, family-feel culture that promises meaningful relationships and an intimate team experience.

The VP CNO is responsible for hospital wide nursing patient care programs, policies, and procedures that describe how patients’ nursing care needs, treatment, and services are assessed, evaluated and met.  The VP CNO is influential in hospital and organizational strategic planning and implementation in concert with the organization’s mission and vision.

Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center is East County’s full-service hospital, always expanding to meet our diverse community’s growing needs and offering an award-winning patient experience delivered with a personal touch. We offer advanced imaging, a modern emergency department, a welcoming family birth center, surgical services, intensive care, cancer care, gastroenterology and more. We are designated as a Center of Excellence in robotic surgery and gastrointestinal services.

Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center proudly serves the diverse community of East County, Oregon with significant representation from Hispanic, Asian, African American, and Native American communities. The Chief Nursing Officer will play a pivotal role in fostering an environment that respects and celebrates this diversity, ensuring that every patient receives inclusive and culturally competent care, enhancing patient outcomes and community health

Legacy Health is a locally owned, nonprofit health system driven by our mission to improve the health of those around us. We offer a unique blend of health services across the Portland/Vancouver metro area and mid-Willamette Valley — from wellness and urgent care to dedicated children’s services and advanced medical centers — to care for patients of
all ages when and where they need us.

• Six hospitals; dedicated children’s care at Randall Children’s Hospital at Legacy Emanuel
• More than 70 primary care, specialty and urgent care clinics
• Nearly 3,000 doctors and providers
• Almost 14,000 employees
• Research and hospice
• Partnership with PacificSource health plan

GENERAL ACCOUNTABILITIES AND ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Develops and communicates a shared nursing vision.
• Participates in setting strategic direction through active involvement with senior management team.
• Designs and implements patient care delivery model that supports and promotes strategic planning, vision, and mission of the hospital.
  
• Maintains knowledge of clinical practices and implements evidence-based practice.
• Demonstrates fiscal responsibility for all defined areas of accountability.
• Assists in directing, managing, and guiding the assigned functions including planning, budgeting, financial control, and management/development of staff.
• Establishes a plan to monitor, evaluate and improve the quality of clinical services, patient, and staff satisfaction.
• Ensures that written organization clinical policies and procedures are reviewed and updated in accordance with evidence-based practice.
• Builds relationship through creation of an environment that establishes collaboration, mutual respect/trust, and credibility with all stakeholders.
• Creates an environment in which professional and personal growth is an expectation including building a reputation for high ethical standards, participation and involvement professional organizations/networks, and assurance nursing perspective is included in organizational decisions.
• Assures that Nursing personnel are knowledgeable and accountable for practicing within their scope of license/certification.

COMPETENCIES:

If competencies are required for this position (either by regulation or law), competencies will be identified and assessed by the manager according to the required timeframes.

Education:  MSN/MN and/or Doctoral degree in nursing required.

Experience:  Eight years of diverse and progressively more responsible health care and/or related administrative experience, including minimum of three years’ experience in a clinical nursing leadership role. 

Skills/Abilities: Able to lead people in setting goals, giving appropriate support, evaluating, directing, and holding employees accountable while maintaining high morale and productivity.  Excellent communication skills (verbal and written).  Thorough understanding of current developments and trends in healthcare management and areas of defined accountability.  Knowledge of development and implementation of effective operational and financial controls. Keyboard skills and ability to navigate electronic systems applicable to job functions are essential.

LEADING AT LEGACY:

Demonstrates the ability to act consistently with Legacy’s Values in Action, exemplifies our core organizational values, and exhibits the leadership competencies outlined in Leading at Legacy.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Vet/Disabled

Certification/Licensure:  Current Oregon State RN licensure.