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Location: Ithaca, NY (Finger Lakes region of NYS) | Schedule: Full-time, on-site | Compensation: $155,000–$165,000

Overview

A leading healthcare organization is seeking an experienced Director of Perioperative Services to provide system-level operational, financial, clinical, and administrative leadership across its perioperative services. This highly visible System Director role oversees a broad surgical and procedural portfolio and is central to improving patient safety, satisfaction, efficiency, throughput, quality, workforce performance, and financial results across multiple perioperative locations.

What you'll do

• Provide system-level leadership for perioperative services
• Direct daily operations of perioperative departments
• Oversee operating room, preoperative and postoperative care, preadmission testing, OR scheduling, endoscopy, and sterile processing functions
• Ensure compliance with Joint Commission, local, state, and federal regulations and accreditation requirements
• Establish and implement short- and long-term operational goals, policies, and procedures
• Monitor operational effectiveness and implement improvements as needed
• Develop an organizational structure and staffing model to meet operational and clinical objectives
• Provide administrative leadership and solutions to surgical-services and executive leadership teams
• Foster strong collaboration between clinical departments and medical staff leadership
• Coordinate resources across the organization to achieve operational and financial objectives
• Improve access, throughput, efficiency, patient experience, and financial performance
• Establish performance targets and metrics for efficiency, patient satisfaction, service levels, and quality
• Develop management reports analyzing capacity, staffing ratios, utilization, quality, coding, scheduling, and other operational data
• Develop and implement policies and standardized workflows
• Partner with nursing, finance, information services, and other departments to optimize centralized services and information flow
• Maintain 24/7 accountability for clinical and building services
• Lead recruitment, retention, performance management, and professional development
• Coach and mentor managers and emerging leaders
• Monitor quality outcomes and develop performance-improvement plans
• Participate in development and management of annual operating and capital budgets
• Conduct cost and productivity analyses and make fiscally responsible recommendations
• Serve as a leadership representative during regulatory reviews
• Identify and implement best practices to improve efficiency, throughput, quality, and patient outcomes
• Re-engineer processes and develop strategies to improve surgical operations
• Build consensus across a complex, matrixed healthcare organization
• Support strategic growth and operational initiatives for perioperative services

Required qualifications

• BSN required
• 5+ years of healthcare experience with a focus on surgical services
• 3+ years of surgical-services leadership experience
• Current RN license
• Demonstrated knowledge of operating-room and perioperative clinical standards
• Strong understanding of surgical operations and healthcare business processes
• Strong fiscal-management and analytical capabilities
• Experience with budgeting, cost control, productivity analysis, and performance metrics
• Strong employee-development, recruitment, retention, and performance-management skills
• Ability to work effectively in a matrixed organizational structure

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree preferred
• AORN, CASC, or another appropriate leadership certification
• Experience leading multiple perioperative departments or locations
• Experience with operational redesign, process improvement, and throughput optimization
• Strong project-management capabilities
• Experience using healthcare information, financial, and database systems
• Demonstrated ability to develop and implement operational and marketing strategies

Compensation and benefits

• $155,000–$165,000 annually
• Excellent benefits package

Why this role

This is an exceptional opportunity for a seasoned perioperative leader to assume system-level responsibility for a comprehensive surgical and procedural operation, with significant influence over clinical quality, patient experience, staffing, operational efficiency, financial performance, and the strategic growth of perioperative services.