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**Job Description** **Job Summary: Key Job Responsibilities** The Associate Director, Clinical Operations is responsible for organizing, directing and oversight of daily operations. Areas of oversight include Cancer Center Clinic, Infusion Center and Nursing. Responsible for management of operational programs and services, financial oversight and staff management. Assumes fiscal responsibility through preparation of operational, and capital budget for respective departments. Serves as liaison with medical staff, ancillary departments and other personnel to ensure patient advocacy. Guides and precepts nursing staff in the provision of nursing care/practice consistent with nursing standards. Promotes the maximum growth and development of each employee, supports research and participates in strategic planning, both long and short-term departmental goals. Promotes departmental focus by establishing goals consistent with organizational practice. Collaborates and coordinates interdepartmental problem solving which supports and enhances operational flow and department efficiency. -Develops business and operation plans for the departments and for specific programs by preparing, monitoring and controlling budget and ensuring conformity with established budgetary goals. Manage monthly reports to explain variances and make recommendations for corrective action, as needed. -Reviews and approve departmental expenditures for appropriateness and compliance within budget; reduces expenses and generates increased revenue. -Creates policies and procedures and implement performance improvement initiatives and set up data collection processes and reporting systems as necessary. -Develops staffing plan to ensure appropriate staff level based on patient volume and activity. Responsible for hiring, maintaining and improving competencies, and staff development to increase their skills, knowledge and experience. Conduct performance reviews, disciplinary actions and action plans. -Responsible for assuring staff competency for implementation regarding the provision of age-related patient care. Provides appropriate assessments, interventions and evaluations of patients with consideration of developmental milestones in the adolescent, adult and geriatric patient population. -Drives and ensures positive and effective full service patient care to include patient advocacy. Assures that the unit maintains a patient focus by serving as a role model with consistent focus of customer relations, providing feedback regarding positive and negative patient comments and participating in customer satisfaction initiatives -Ensures compliance with all federal, state and municipal laws, regulations and ordinances of respective clinical support programs. Maintain staff compliance with CSMC policies, procedures, standards of care, clinical guidelines and protocols. -Maintains positive work climate, ensure appropriate staff education, promote environment that foster self-directed staff, assist employees to develop and contribute to the organization, and applies human resource policies fairly and consistently. -Applies Improving Organizational Performance principles in daily oversight of the department/unit. **Qualifications** **Education** RN required High School Diploma/GED Bachelor's Degree Healthcare Administration, Public Health, Business Administration, Science in Nursing, and/or related. Master's Degree Healthcare Administration, Public Health, Business Administration, Science in Nursing, and/or related. For Clinical Support Programs, the MSN is required. **Experience** 5 years Within a healthcare setting such as medical, surgical, stroke, radiation and/or related department/unit 4 years Managing academic clinical department(s), service line(s), and/or related. 3 years Supervisory/Management experience and overseeing department(s)/service line(s) in a healthcare setting. **Licenses/Certifications** RN required **PHYSICAL DEMANDS/WORKING CONDITIONS** Standing, Walking, Sitting, Lifting 50 lbs. Carrying 50 lbs. Pushing 75 lbs. Pulling 75 lbs. Balancing, Stooping, Eye/Hand/Foot Coordination, Reaching, Handling, Grasping, Feeling, Talking, Hearing **About Us** Cedars-Sinai is a leader in providing high-quality healthcare encompassing primary care, specialized medicine and research. Since 1902, Cedars-Sinai has evolved to meet the needs of one of the most diverse regions in the nation, setting standards in quality and innovative patient care, research, teaching and community service. Today, Cedars- Sinai is known for its national leadership in transforming healthcare for the benefit of patients. Cedars-Sinai impacts the future of healthcare by developing new approaches to treatment and educating tomorrow's health professionals. Additionally, Cedars-Sinai demonstrates a commitment to the community through programs that improve the health of its most vulnerable residents. **About the Team** Cedars-Sinai is one of the largest nonprofit academic medical centers in the U.S., with 886 licensed beds, 2,100 physicians, 2,800 nurses and thousands of other healthcare professionals and staff. Choose this if you want to work in a fast-paced environment that offers the highest level of care to people in the Los Angeles that need our care the most. **Req ID** : 10368 **Working Title** : Associate Director of Cancer Center Operations and Nursing - #1 Hospital in CA **Department** : Cancer Center Exams **Business Entity** : Cedars-Sinai Medical Center **Job Category** : Clinical Operations **Job Specialty** : Clinical Operations **Overtime Status** : EXEMPT **Primary Shift** : Day **Shift Duration** : 8 hour **Base Pay** : $72.91 - $131.24 Cedars-Sinai is an EEO employer. Cedars-Sinai does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of the race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition (cancer-related or genetic characteristics or any genetic information), marital status, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age (40 or older), military and/or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal or state law.

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