You

You bring your body, mind, heart and spirit to your work as the Director, Surgical Services.

You know how to move fast. You know how to stay organized. You know how to have fun.

Youâ™re equally strong at developing and building strong teams, juggling many initiatives, and remaining deadline and detail oriented.

Us

St. Vincent Healthcare is part of SCL Health, a faith-based, nonprofit healthcare organization that focuses on person-centered care. Our 286-bed level II trauma center has provided care in Montana and the surrounding area since 1898, and our 30-clinic network ensures community needs are met. We offer comprehensive, specialty care, and are proud to extend SCL Healthâ™s missions by treating the poor, the vulnerable, our community and each other.

Benefits are one of the ways we encourage health for you and your family. Our generous package includes medical, dental and vision coverage. But health is more than a well-working body: it encompasses body, mind and social well-being. To that end, weâ™ve launched a Healthy Living program to address your holistic health. Healthy Living includes financial incentives, digital tools, tobacco cessation, classes, counseling and paid time off. We also offer financial wellness tools and retirement savings plan.

With this position, you are eligible to participate in the At Risk Compensation (ARC) Plan. This plan enables SCL Health to provide leaders with an additional performance compensation opportunity. The ARC Award opportunities are calculated as a percentage of your base salary. Awards are paid out based on attainment of selected SCL Health Board-approved goals. In addition, to show our commitment to you and to assist with your transition into our organization, we may also offer a sign-on or retention bonus and a relocation package when applicable.

We

Together weâ™ll align mission and careers, values and workplace. Weâ™ll encourage joy and take pride in our integrity.

Weâ™ll laugh at each otherâ™s jokes (even the bad ones). Weâ™ll hello and high five. Weâ™ll celebrate milestones and acknowledge the value of spirituality in healing.

Weâ™re proud of what we know, which includes how much there is to learn.

Your day

As the Director of Surgical Services, you will oversee all aspects of the department. The role involves significant physician interaction, leadership and facilitation of strategic and operational activities / projects. The Director leads the operations of:

• Inpatient & Outpatient Surgery


• Anesthesia Techs


• Central Transport


• Infusion


• GI Clinic


• Surgery Plus


• PACU


• Sterile Processing


• Perfusionist

In this role you need to know how to:

• Oversee and participate in the planning, implementations and evaluation of divisional quality improvement activities. Participate in work re-design projects.


• Assist and participate in developing standards of performance excellence in collaboration with other leaders.


• Identify problems, propose solutions, and review the findings of monitoring and evaluation activities. Identify risk, promptly investigate problems and complaints, and take action as appropriate to improve service.


• Collaborate with other divisions / departments or disciplines and recommend methods or systems for improving quality, and reducing costs utilizing an interdisciplinary planning process to plan and implement change.


• Maintain accountability for the quality of department activities and services delivered for departments with scope of responsibility.


• Monitor performance of all departments under the purview of this position for compliance with operating targets.


• Encourage and facilitate the professional advancement of employees by affording opportunities for further education and experience. 

Your experience                                       

We hire people, not resumes. But we also expect excellence, which is why we require:

• Masterâ™s degree in health related field or business, required


• Five (5) years of healthcare or related management level experience, required


• Demonstrated broad function knowledge of the technology and key operational drivers of each assigned department, required


• Current license to practice in Colorado (or ability to obtain), required


• Minimum of three years of senior level nursing leadership in an acute environment, required


• Experience with High Reliability Organization methodology, preferred


• Minimum of ten years in a leadership position managing a large and complex product/service line, preferred

Your next move

Now that you know more about being the Director of Surgical Services at St. Vincent Healthcare, we hope youâ™ll join us. At SCL Health youâ™ll reaffirm every day how much you love this work, and why you were called to it in the first place.