Vice President Surgical Services

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Monday-Friday

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8:00 AM5:00 PMRegular

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The Vice President, Surgical Services provides executive leadership for surgical and perioperative services across the system and is accountable for safe, high-quality, patient and family centered care; operational and financial performance; workforce strategy; growth; and resource stewardship. Serving as the administrative dyad partner to the Surgeon in Chief, Division Chief of General Surgery, and other surgical specialty Chiefs, the VP translates system strategy into surgical services priorities and leads coordinated delivery across the perioperative continuum, including preoperative, operating room, post-anesthesia care, inpatient, outpatient, ambulatory surgery center, and sterile processing services. In partnership with the Children’s Physician Group and community surgeons, physicians, and clinical and operational leaders, the VP ensures measurable outcomes in quality, patient experience, access, capacity, workforce engagement, labor performance, and financial sustainability while creating an optimal environment for providers and meeting the surgical needs of the pediatric community Children’s serves.

Experience

• Ten years of progressive healthcare leadership experience, including at least five years as an executive or senior leader in a complex healthcare organization
• Proven experience leading surgical, perioperative, or other complex clinical and business operations across multiple sites, functions, or service lines
• Demonstrated success partnering with surgeon and physician leaders to develop and execute strategic clinical care, growth, access, and capacity plans
• Demonstrated experience improving operating room throughput, utilization, quality, safety, patient flow, and financial performance while achieving superior clinical outcomes
• Proven experience developing workforce and labor strategies, optimizing staffing models, managing premium labor, and aligning workforce capacity with surgical demand and financial targets
• Experience leading systemwide strategy, large-scale transformation, and measurable performance improvement in partnership with clinical, non-clinical, medical, operational, and administrative stakeholders
• Experience benchmarking against peer health systems and national organizations and translating leading practices and emerging trends into actionable surgical services strategies

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in health administration or business administration
• Pediatric healthcare experience, preferably within surgical or perioperative services

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in business, health administration, industrial engineering, or a related healthcare field

Certification Summary

• No professional certifications are required

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Ability to lead highly complex, cross-organizational surgical services initiatives through influence, collaboration, and negotiation among stakeholders with competing priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multiple perioperative functions and develop and execute systemwide strategy, transformation, and measurable performance improvement.
• Ability to build trusted relationships with patients, employees, surgeons, physicians, and senior clinical and non-clinical leaders across organizational levels and specialty areas.
• Strong executive presence and demonstrated ability to lead necessary organizational and operational changes.
• Demonstrated ability to use financial, workforce, quality, safety, patient experience, access, capacity, and operational data to set priorities, manage risk, and drive measurable improvement.
• Strong business and financial acumen, including budgeting, forecasting, labor productivity, premium labor management, margin improvement, and delivery of high-quality surgical care within established financial parameters.
• Ability to develop and use dashboards, key performance indicators, and scorecards to monitor operating room utilization, throughput, quality, workforce, and financial performance and guide executive decision-making.
• Ability to develop a comprehensive surgical services workforce strategy, align staffing models and skill mix with demand, strengthen recruitment and retention, and ensure responsible stewardship of labor resources.
• Ability to evaluate and prioritize capital investments in technology, equipment, facilities, and programs based on return on investment, clinical impact, risk, capacity, and strategic value.
• Advanced analytical capability to assess needs, evaluate costs and benefits, identify risks and mitigations, and make timely, well-informed decisions.
• Commitment to patient care, service excellence, continuous improvement, workforce engagement, and partnerships with surgeons and physicians.
• Excellent executive-level written and verbal communication skills and the ability to deliver results in a fast-paced, high-accountability environment.

Job Responsibilities

• Provides executive leadership for safe, efficient, integrated, and fiscally responsible surgical and perioperative operations across hospitals and outpatient surgery centers, including preoperative, operating room, post-anesthesia care, and sterile processing services.
• Partners with the Surgeon in Chief, the Division Chief of General Surgery, other surgical specialty Chiefs, surgeons, physicians, specialty leaders, and clinical and non-clinical leaders to translate system strategy into surgical services priorities and ensure coordinated operations across the perioperative continuum.
• Develops and executes surgical services strategy for growth, access, capacity, competitive threat mitigation, optimal deployment of services, and targeted utilization across system operative locations.
• Ensures alignment of surgical services priorities, performance, and resource decisions with broader system goals and targets.
• Sets expectations and drives measurable improvement in patient safety, clinical quality, patient and family experience, workforce engagement, operating room utilization, throughput, on-time performance, case volume, and operational reliability.
• Leads surgical services workforce planning and strategy, including demand and capacity planning, staffing model and skill-mix optimization, recruitment, retention, leadership development, succession planning, performance accountability, and employee engagement.
• Maintains accountability for labor productivity, premium labor, workforce utilization, scheduling efficiency, and labor cost performance, ensuring staffing resources align with surgical demand, quality requirements, and established financial parameters.
• Maintains accountability for operating and capital performance, budgeting, forecasting, revenue, expense management, margin improvement, resource utilization, capacity, key volumes, and the financial sustainability of surgical services.
• Prioritizes and allocates people, operating, and capital resources across surgical services to advance strategic initiatives, improve access and throughput, and achieve organizational priorities.
• Evaluates and prioritizes investments in technology, equipment, facilities, and programs based on return on investment, clinical impact, risk, capacity, and strategic value in collaboration with key stakeholders.
• Develops and uses dashboards, key performance indicators, and scorecards to monitor quality, safety, experience, workforce, access, utilization, throughput, and financial performance; identifies trends and ensures timely corrective action.
• Oversees regulatory and accreditation readiness for surgical and perioperative services, communicates material performance risks to executive leadership, and ensures timely mitigation and resolution.
• Maintains a visible leadership presence, builds trusted relationships with staff and stakeholders, and responds decisively to operational issues, opportunities, and risks using data and stakeholder input.
• Partners with surgical chiefs and operations leaders to develop and implement innovative surgical programs, modalities, technologies, and care delivery models.
• Owns and drives talent management for Surgical Services, including talent selection, performance accountability, leadership development, succession planning, retention, and employee engagement.
• Achieves Operate with Excellence targets across people, patient experience, quality and safety, operations, growth, and financial performance.

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, citizenship, age, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic covered by applicable law.

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