Dir - Surgical Svcs

Responsibilities

Doctors Hospital of Laredo, in Laredo, TX, is a 183-bed acute care facility that offers a range of medical services. You'll feel a difference when you walk in our doors. There's pride in the care we deliver and a commitment to serving Laredo's growing healthcare needs.

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JOB SUMMARY:

Responsible for the 24-hour leadership and management of the Surgical Services departments typically including Pre-op, PAT, OR, PACU, Anesthesia, Endo, SPD, OR Supply Management and other assigned areas to ensure the facility meets the established standards of care. Responsible for interacting with hospital staff, patients, families, visitors, and/or ancillary departments regarding patient care, concerns and conflicts by identifying and assisting resolution.

Responsible and accountable for maintaining performance skills of their employees, assuring regulatory and accreditation readiness, and maintaining staff schedules, payroll, orientation, staff meetings, policies, performance improvement, and is accountable for budget compliance and budget variance. Routinely works week days, but may need to support staff at other times when necessary. This position summary contains the most basic duties and does not exclude other assignments not mentioned.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Leadership
  
  Activities:
  
  Provides Clinical and Compliance guidance to facility Surgical Services Departments.
• Surgical Services Integrative Support
  
  Activities:
  
  Assists with assessment, mentoring, and support of facility-based surgical services staff. Provides Surgical Services expertise to Quality, Performance Improvement, Nursing, Finance, Supply Management and Information Technology.
• Surgical Services Policy, Procedure and Practice
  
  Activities:
  
  Creates, reviews and revises Surgical Services policies, procedures and practices as needed.
• Surgical Services Education
  
  Activities:
  
  Assesses current staff education structure and processes within Surgical Services and provides best practices for implementation to include staff education and competencies.
• Facilitation
  
  Activities:
  
  Facilitates sharing of ideas, strategies, and tactics to achieve departmental targets. Mobilizes resources required by the opportunities. Collaborates with Corporate and Facility leaders on the hand off and completion of all initiatives.
• Surgical Services Staffing
  
  Activities:
  
  Assesses and provides UHS Surgical Service Departments with the appropriate staffing to demand within their areas utilizing tools to measure, track, monitor and report the facility department processes.
• Program Administration
  
  Activities:
  
  Develops presentations, projects, work plans, timelines and milestones. Assumes initial responsibility for measuring, tracking, monitoring, and reporting initiatives. Provides routine status updates.

Benefit Highlights

• Challenging and rewarding work environment
• Competitive Compensation & Paid Time Off
• Excellent Benefit Packages
• 401(K) with company match and discounted stock plan
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Career development opportunities across UHS and its 300+ locations!
• Health Stream online learning catalogue with plenty of free CEU courses
• More information is available on our Benefits Guest Website:

About Universal Health Services

One of the nation’s largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services, Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) has built an impressive record of achievement and performance. During the year, UHS was again recognized as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies by Fortune; and listed in Forbes ranking of America’s Largest Public Companies. Operating acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities, outpatient facilities and ambulatory care access points, an insurance offering, a physician network and various related services located all over the U.S. States, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom.

If you would like to learn more about the position before applying, please contact Mariana Lopez Recruiter at .

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