Nurse Director Ambulatory Oncology
Listed on 2026-03-11
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Nursing
Director of Nursing, Healthcare Nursing
Nursing Director – Mass General Brigham Cancer Institute – Multidisciplinary Clinics
- The Nursing Director for the Mass General Brigham Cancer Institute at Brigham and Women's Hospital multidisciplinary clinics is responsible for the support and oversight of ambulatory cancer care including medical oncology, radiation oncology, and surgical oncology.
- The Ambulatory Nurse Director for a multidisciplinary cancer clinic is responsible for leading and supporting nursing practice across complex oncology specialties, ensuring high-quality, coordinated outpatient care that is patient- and family-centered, culturally sensitive, and grounded in collaborative, team-based cancer care.
As the clinical leader of the discipline, the Nursing Director is responsible for establishing and maintaining the standards of nursing care and practice. The Nursing Director, nurse managers, nurse practitioner team managers, professional development managers, and other members of the nurse leadership team establish and maintain true collaborative relationships with nursing staff, all disciplines, and departments necessary to foster optimal patient outcomes and a professional practice environment.
They partner with inter‑professional and intra‑professional leadership to set mutual goals that advance teamwork, interdisciplinary learning, just culture, and the environment of care.
While this position supports an MGBCI cost center operationally, the Nursing Director functions within the Brigham and Women's Hospital Department of Nursing professional governance structure, and all nursing staff maintain reporting alignment through BWH nursing leadership.
The Nursing Director collaborates in the creation of annual operating budgets, inclusive of proposals for new initiatives to enhance the clinical services of the department to achieve institutional and departmental strategic priorities. They participate in the development, refinement, communication, and actualization of the BWH Department of Nursing (DON) vision, professional practice model, and relationship‑based care delivery system, ensuring alignment with Mass General Brigham Cancer Institute strategy and goals.
PrincipalDuties and Responsibilities
- Creates an environment that supports and celebrates the professional growth of nursing practice.
- Actively supports the development of new nursing knowledge.
- Assures the use of and adherence to evidence‑informed practice/standards for nursing care.
- Assures the practice environment supports reflective practice, e.g. through the use of narratives, and meets the needs of the relevant patient population.
- Professional development
-self- Participates in self‑performance appraisal process in ongoing manner.
- Seeks feedback from his/her professional colleagues.
- Shares strengths and areas to be developed with associate chief nurse and other colleagues as appropriate.
- Maintains necessary clinical and managerial expertise through evidence‑based practice.
- Participates in service- and department‑wide developmental initiatives.
- Demonstrates commitment to lifelong learning, e.g. through active participation in professional organizations.
- Conducts timely assessments of staff learning needs and assure programs/projects are in place to address them, including collaboration with the Professional Development Managers and the center for Nursing Excellence.
- Facilitates opportunities for staff to precept and teach others.
- Serves as a clinical leader/coach/mentor to staff.
- Promotes staff participation in annual goal setting for his/her patient care area[s] and the Department of Nursing.
- Serves as a leader within the community of nursing, in accordance with the standards of the discipline of nursing, including adherence to the ANA Code of Ethics.
- Assures appropriate personnel to meet the needs of the designated patient population.
- Designs and implements staffing patterns responsive to a dynamic care environment.
- Interviews, hires and oversees the orientation of new employees considering departmental, divisional, local and individual employee needs as basis of decisions.
- Provided ongoing formal and informal feedback regarding…
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