Job Description

Overview

To be part of our organization, every employee should understand and share in the YNHHS Vision, support our Mission, and live our Values. These values - integrity, patient-centered, respect, accountability, and compassion - must guide what we do, as individuals and professionals, every day.

The Nursing Director is responsible for the 24-hour operational management of designated unit(s) and serves as the direct link between YNHH executive leadership, YNHCH executive leadership and the managers and staff on the patient care teams. Achieves superior clinical quality and financial outcomes and attains performance management goals for Patient Services with a focused effort on patient, clinician and staff engagement and satisfaction. Responds to market and environmental forces, which have a significant impact on the delivery of acute care services. Develops an effective response to these forces in all clinical areas. Collaborates with others to achieve the Hospital's strategic mission and objectives. 

To ensure we are prepared to support our increasingly complex pediatric patient care needs, we are restructuring our leadership with three Director nursing leadership roles. These roles will lead an engaged team of caregivers in the delivery of accessible high quality care delivery.

• Director of Nursing – Pediatric Intensive Care Units
  Lead at the highest level of pediatric critical care. This role provides strategic and operational leadership across the Children’s Intensive Care continuum, including the PICU, PCICU, Neonatal ICUs at YSC (Units 10 & 11), and the Bridgeport Campus NNICU. You’ll partner closely with physician and executive leaders to advance clinical excellence, mentor high-performing nursing leaders, and shape the future of care for the most medically complex children and families. This is a role for a leader who thrives in high-acuity environments and sees systems, not silos.
  
  
• Director of Nursing – Pediatric Inpatient Units
  The Director of Nursing for Pediatric Inpatient Units provides leadership across diverse and highly specialized services, including Hematology/Oncology & BMT, Medical/Cardiology, Surgery and Solid Organ Transplant, Neurosciences/Epilepsy, Short Stay, and the Bridgeport Campus inpatient unit. You’ll drive quality, innovation, and team development while ensuring compassionate, family-centered care remains at the core of everything we do. Ideal for a leader energized by complexity, growth, and meaningful clinical impact.
  
  
• Director of Nursing – Pediatric Emergency, Behavioral Health & Procedural Services
  As Director of Nursing, you’ll lead nursing practice across the Children’s Emergency Department, inpatient and outpatient Behavioral Health, and Pediatric Procedural Services—including the Children’s OR, PACU, and  Interventional Radiology. You’ll shape care delivery in fast-paced, high-visibility settings while building resilient teams and advancing patient-centered, trauma-informed care. Perfect for a bold leader who’s calm under pressure and driven to improve systems where moments matter most.

Responsibilities

• 1. Overall:
• 1.1 Through exceptional leadership, innovation and commitment, develops a team of highly skilled managers and clinical and non-clinical staff who work together to achieve Patient Services goals.
• 2. Unit & Hospital Specialty Objectives:
• 2.1 Collaborates with physician partners,  and  Patient Services Managers to assure the delivery of safe, high-quality patient centered care.
• 3. Fiscal Management:
• 3.1 Develops and manages a department budget to ensure the delivery of cost-efficient , safe,  and cost-effective quality care.
• 4. Human Resource Management:
• 4.1 Provides leadership to patient services management and staff in a collaborative environment that offers job satisfaction and engagement recognition, and career development.  Holds leadership accountable for implementation of initiatives to achieve outcomes.
• 5. Organizational Leadership:
• 5.1 Leads department and/or hospital centered interdisciplinary initiatives and Cost and Value initiatives.
• 6. Outcomes Management:
• 6.1 Achieves customer service/satisfaction goals and provides leadership in establishing new expectations and resolving any negative trends achieving top performance.
• 7. Patient & Family Satisfaction:
• 7.1 Ensures that departmental staff is held accountable for achieving patient satisfaction and high reliability goals.
• 8. Summary:
• 8.1 Directors of Nursing have the authority to execute the vision, objectives and strategies consistent with the Hospital-s mission and policy. They determine how resources are deployed effectively within their areas of responsibility, and they    are responsible for exploring innovative care models, as well as escalation of workforce needs as appropriate.

Qualifications

EDUCATION

Bachelor's degree in Nursing required. Master's degree required in Nursing or a related field (Ex MBA, MHA, MBOE). Doctoral degree strongly preferred, either DNP or PhD.

EXPERIENCE

Minimum of five (5) years demonstrated successful leadership/management experience in an acute care setting managing complex services. Academic medical center experience preferred.

LICENSURE

Connecticut State RN licensure and/or eligibility for Connecticut State licensure required. Nursing leadership certification strongly preferred- CENP (Certified Executive in Nursing Practice) or NE-BC (Nurse Executive-Board Certified) Certification in area of specialty preferred.

SPECIAL SKILLS

Exceptional customer relations skills; ability to build relationships in a complex environment.

PHYSICAL DEMAND

Requires prolonged standing, sitting, walking, use of sight, hearing, and touch. Frequently requires pushing, pulling, bending, reaching, stooping, squatting and working in awkward positions. Able to help lift objects and patients ranging from five (5) to three hundred (300) pounds. Moderate stress from coordinating and supervising unit staff. May be exposed to infectious diseases/blood/body fluids. Will be exposed to physical, mental and emotional illness as well as end of life conditions and death. Moderate stress and risk of injury from patient care.

Additional Information

• Must have a proven record of nursing leadership, including  Execution of positive outcomes, and ability to  lead initiatives.
• Experience leading multiple service areas needed.

About Yale New Haven Health Children's Hospital

Leading healthcare system, Leading career opportunities. Yale New Haven Health provides an experience unrivaled by other hospitals with a comprehensive orientation program, ongoing education programs, and professional advancement.Yale New Haven Health is non-profit health system that includes 5 acute-care hospitals – Yale New Haven, Bridgeport, Greenwich, Lawrence + Memorial and Westerly – a medical foundation, several multispecialty centers and dozens of outpatient locations and ambulatory sites stretching from Westchester County, NY, across Connecticut and into Rhode Island.As a non-profit health system that’s accredited by the Joint Commission, our hospitals are nationally ranked among the best hospitals in the country according to U.S. News & World Report. And through our affiliation with the highly-ranked Yale School of Medicine our patients benefit from even more access to the latest medical treatments, advanced research and innovation.

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