Director, Perinatal Services

About the Role

The Director of Perinatal Services is accountable for the strategic planning, direction, organization and control of the inpatient Women’s Services Department and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). This position is responsible for the direction of clinical delivery of care and meeting fiscal goals for such specialized areas as Labor Delivery, Couplet Care, GYN & Well Women’s Care, Perinatal Clinic (California Sweet Success;

Diabetes in Pregnancy Program), Lactation and Childbirth Education, and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The Director will direct and oversee the entire Perinatal Service Line by aligning operations and performance improvement activities across multiple entities, with special emphasis placed on integrating policies, standards of care, staff/management recruitment and training, and capital equipment purchases. The Director, Perinatal Services, will be accountable at a strategic level for planning, developing, or creating linkages with existing services and new services and programs, and assisting with the marketing of the service line strategies in a highly competitive marketplace.

The position serves as a liaison between Medical Staff and Administration and is accountable to the Country, State and Federal agencies as well as the Joint Commission for maintaining compliance with all applicable laws, regulations and standards, and contributing quality patient outcomes while consistently maintaining the highest level of customer service.

• Administrative operations for all Perinatal Service Areas.
• Establish Women’s Service Line Leadership Plan for the development of Women’s screening, health & wellness programs.
• Implement Best Practices & Standardized Procedures in all service areas.
• Integrate Women’s Services department’s services with ARMC’s primary functions.
• Coordinate and integrate services within Women’s Services and with other departments.
• Develop and implement policies and procedures that guide and support the provision of services.
• Recommend a sufficient number of qualified and competent individuals to provide care.
• Determine the qualifications and competence of staff and those who are not licensed practitioners.
• Continuously assess and improve performance of the Women’s Services Department.
• Maintain appropriate quality control programs throughout women’s service line.
• Provide for orientation, in-service training, and continuing education of all staff in the Women’s Services department.

As the Director of Perinatal Services, the Director is responsible for directing the clinical nursing practice in the NICU; coordination and assessment of critical care educational development and clinical competency of the nursing staff and for ensuring continued neonatal critical care nursing competency through educational programs for both newly hired and experienced nursing staff; consultation with staff on complex neonatal critical care nursing issues;

oversight of comprehensive parent and/or primary caretaker education activities; and ensuring the implementation of a coordinated and effective discharge planning program.

• Neonatal Transport Program with a written neonatal transport plan that includes a summary of the Neonatal Transport Training Program; annual evaluation and documentation of competency in neonatal transport of the neonatal transport team members; requirement of a minimum number of preceptored neonatal transports for new neonatal team members, and maintenance of written records of each neonatal transport completed which must be available for review by the CCS program staff.
• High Risk Infant Follow-up Program which ensures that all high risk infants discharged from the NICU are followed in a program that conforms with the CCS high risk infant eligibility criteria and components of services.
• Regional Cooperation Agreement: works with CHOC’s NICU team for joint education and training of perinatal health professions; joint development of guidelines for consultation by perinatal, neonatal and other specialty disciplines as necessary; joint development of guidelines for maternal and neonatal patient…