System Director-Nursing Operations

Pay Range:

$64.50 - $96.75Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS) is seeking a System Director-Nursing Operations to join our team. The System Director-Nursing Operations is responsible for leading enterprise nursing operational initiatives across HSHS, with a focus on translating analytics and strategic priorities into standardized operational execution across ministries. This role partners with system, market, ministry, nursing, finance, throughput, and operational leaders to implement workforce strategies, labor effectiveness plans, productivity improvement initiatives, patient flow and capacity management solutions, and system-wide nursing operational standardization. The role maintains oversight of the Transfer Center and ensures continued optimization of transfer operations, access to care, throughput, escalation pathways, operational dashboards, and regulatory compliance. The System Director-Nursing Operations serves as a strategic implementation partner to ministry Chief Nursing Officers and system leadership, bridging the gap between performance insights and measurable operational improvement.

Position Specifics: 
o  Department: Operations 
o  Core Function: Corporate Services 
o  Schedule: Full Time, Hybrid-day to day remote, on-site as needed (avg once a year)
o  Facility: St. John's Hospital 
o  Location: Springfield, IL 
o  Compensation that aligns with your experience

Education Qualifications

• Master's degree in Nursing, Healthcare Administration, Business Administration, or related healthcare field is required.
• Bachelor's degree in Nursing is required.

Experience Qualifications

• 5 years of progressive healthcare leadership experience is required.
• 10 years of acute care of health system operations experience is preferred.
• Must be able to travel up to 20% of the time.

Certifications, Licenses and Registrations

• Licensed Registered Nurse (RN) in the state of practice is required or obtain license within 60 days of hire date. Wisconsin: RNs may practice with a valid multi-state RN license as outlined in the Nurse Licensure Compact rules.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) is required.

Job Description

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Throughout communities in Illinois and Wisconsin, 13 hospitals, numerous community-based health centers and clinics, our 13,000+ colleagues have built a culture based on our solid core values of respect, care, competence, and joy. These are the ideals we believe in, work by, and live each day.

Built upon more than 145 years of service to the communities we serve, we now look to the future and our place in it as a health care system that strives to continually improve processes, procedures, and outcomes with the latest and most advanced technologies and treatments.

Regardless of how far our passion for excellence carries us, our focus will always remain on the most important person in our entire organization: The patient.

Benefits:  HSHS provides a benefits package designed to support the overall well-being of our colleagues including their physical, emotional, financial, spiritual, and work health. Colleagues budgeted to work at least 32 hours per pay period are eligible for HSHS benefits.

• Comprehensive and affordable health coverage includes medical, prescription, dental and vision coverage for full-time and part-time colleagues.

• Paid Time Off (PTO)  combines vacation, sick, and personal days into one balance to allow you the flexibility to use your time off as you need.

• Retirement benefits including HSHS
  contributions.

• Education Assistance benefits include up to $5,250 of educational assistance each calendar year and tuition discounts to select colleges with no waiting period.

• Adoption Assistance provides financial support up to $7,500 for colleagues growing their families through adoption   to reimburse application and legal fees, transportation, and more!

• Other benefits include: Wellness program with incentives, employer-paid life insurance and short-term and long-term disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, employee assistance program, ID theft coverage, colleague rewards and recognition program, discount program, and more!

Benefits

HSHS and affiliates is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE).

HSHS is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.

Notice Regarding Potential Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Hiring Process

Hospital Sisters may use automated tools, including artificial intelligence or machine-learning technologies, to assist with certain administrative aspects of the recruitment process. These tools may help our recruiting team organize applications, search for resumes, identify qualifications reflected in application materials, and facilitate communications or scheduling with applicants.

Information used by these tools may include materials you provide during the application process, such as your resume, work history, education, qualifications, and responses to application questions.

These tools are used only to support our recruiting process. Hiring decisions are made by HSHS personnel, and automated tools do not make employment decisions on behalf of HSHS.

Applicants who have questions about this notice or who require a reasonable accommodation or alternative evaluation method may contact HSHS Human Resources at Contact@hshs.org