Nurse Director Labor & Delivery - Antenatal

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Job Summary

Nurse Director Labor & Delivery Antenatal Services Department

Join Brigham and Women’s Hospital and help define the future of women’s health, maternal-fetal care, and nursing leadership.
Full time 40 hours | Main Campus Boston.

Exceptional leadership opportunity for an experienced and accomplished Nurse Director of Labor & Delivery and Antenatal Services committed to advancing maternal and fetal care. This role offers a unique opportunity to influence care for some of the most complex maternal and neonatal patients at a nationally recognized academic medical center.

Why Brigham and Women’s Hospital:
• Ranked #1 hospital in the nation for Obstetrics and Gynecology by U.S. News & World Report
• As part of the Mary Horrigan Connors Center for Women’s Health, this role supports a high volume, high acuity service that delivers more babies than any other hospital in the region and provides specialized care for high risk, complex, and multiple pregnancies.
• The institution is nationally recognized for pioneering in utero procedures, lifesaving prenatal interventions, and advanced fetal monitoring techniques that shape modern obstetric practice.
• Home to the largest NICU in Massachusetts.
• Founding member of Mass General Brigham, a world-class academic health system.
• Collaborative environment that values innovation, research, professional development, and nursing excellence.

The Opportunity:
• Lead one of the region's most advanced inpatient obstetric programs.
• Oversee: 23-bed Labor & Delivery Unit, 12-bed Antenatal Unit, 4 Obstetric Operating Rooms, 8 Obstetric Triage Rooms.
• Provide strategic, operational, financial, and clinical leadership.
• Partner closely with physicians, advanced practice providers, and interdisciplinary leaders to advance care and ensure a caring, healing and collaborative environment.
• Shape the future of maternal-fetal nursing care within a nationally recognized medical center.

What You'll Do:
Provide Strategic and Operational Leadership
• Lead the overall clinical, operational, financial, and strategic direction of Labor & Delivery and Antenatal Service.
• Foster an environment of inclusivity, collaboration, psychological safety, trust and respect for patients, families, and interdisciplinary clinicians and colleagues.
• Drive quality improvement, safety, patient-experience, and exceptional clinical outcomes as well as compliance, and accreditation readiness.
• Contribute to developing, refining, implementing Department of Nursing vision, practice model and aligning with MGB goals
• Collaborate in creation annual operating budgets, including proposals for new initiatives, and ongoing monitoring.

Lead and Develop High-Performing Teams
• Lead workforce engagement, recruitment, retention, team building, and succession planning.
• Mentor and develop nursing leaders and frontline staff.
• Design and adapt staffing to be responsive to dynamic care environment.
• Responsible for the supervision of an assistant nurse director, registered nurses, surgical technicians and others as directed.
• Reports to the Associate Chief Nurse, Nursing and Clinical Services of the designated areas.
• Work schedule is primarily days with 24/7 accountability.

Advance Clinical Excellence
• Partner closely with physicians, advanced practice providers, and interdisciplinary leaders to advance care and ensure a caring, healing and collaborative environment.
• Creates an environment that supports and celebrates the professional growth of nursing practice at all levels of experience.
• Advance evidence-based practice, innovation, and nursing scholarship.

Qualifications:

• 1. Current registration/licensure in nursing in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

• 2. MSN, DNP, PhD, or BSN with a Master's degree in a related field, required.

• 3. Current certification required or to be attained within two years from date of hire. Certification must be maintained while employed in this position.

• 4. Minimum 3 years of leadership experience in Women's Health.

• 5. Demonstrated evidence of exemplary nursing practice in Labor and Delivery.

• 6. Three years labor and delivery nursing experience preferred.

• 7. Recent experience as a nurse leader responsible for collaboration in a highly matrixed leadership structure helpful.

• 8. Experience with labor relations preferred.

Who We're Looking For

• Accomplished nursing leader with expertise in Labor & Delivery and Women's Health.

• Strong operational, strategic, and people leadership skills.

• Experience leading complex inpatient services and multidisciplinary teams.

• Proven ability to drive change, engagement, and clinical excellence.

• Commitment to innovation, accountability, and nursing professional practice.

Onsite75 Francis Street40RegularDay (United States of America)

Pay Range

$147,097.60 - $213,959.20/Annual

Grade

9At Mass General Brigham, we believe in recognizing and rewarding the unique value each team member brings to our organization. Our approach to determining base pay is comprehensive, and any offer extended will take into account your skills, relevant experience if applicable, education, certifications and other essential factors. The base pay information provided offers an estimate based on the minimum job qualifications; however, it does not encompass all elements contributing to your total compensation package. In addition to competitive base pay, we offer comprehensive benefits, career advancement opportunities, differentials, premiums and bonuses as applicable and recognition programs designed to celebrate your contributions and support your professional growth. We invite you to apply, and our Talent Acquisition team will provide an overview of your potential compensation and benefits package.2200 The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, military service, genetic information, and/or other status protected under law. We will ensure that all individuals with a disability are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. To ensure reasonable accommodation for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Veteran’s Readjustment Act of 1974, and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, applicants who require accommodation in the job application process may contact Human Resources at (857)-282-7642.

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