Director Transplant Services

We are searching for a Director of Transplant Services, someone who works well in a fast-paced setting. In this position, you will provide 24 hour accountability for the administrative, regulatory, and fiscal oversight of all solid organ, vascularized composite allograft, and palliative care program services. Additionally, you will ensure that high quality outcomes will result through leading, planning, managing, and implementing operational improvement processes, and work closely with transplant medical and surgical leadership to deliver cost effective services and provide strategic planning to promote program growth, leading to revenue generation and increased market share.

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Responsibilities:

• Ensure the delivery of safe, high quality, age appropriate, cost-effective care and/or service within a family-centered care environment, as measured by variance analysis reports, revenue enhancement/expense reduction, patient satisfaction scores, patient complaints, regulatory compliance, and new programs/initiatives
• Lead/participate in Quality Improvement projects to enhance patient care delivery and/or patient satisfaction
• In coordination with service line executives and marketing, collaborate on and develop active marketing and outreach programs to grow and sustain market share for each program
• Foster a strong customer service focus and culture in the Transplant service line
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with medical leadership, direct reports and appropriate interdepartmental liaisons to ensure the achievement of identified goals
• Interact and serve as a resource and leader to individuals responsible for coordinating all aspects of the delivery of care with the Transplant service line
• Ensure creation of a work climate that fosters employee participation, satisfaction and organizational commitment as measured by annual employee survey results, turnover rates, and employee initiatives
• Develop appropriate financial reporting and control mechanisms
• Responsible for annual budgeting, projections, and revenue integrity for all transplant programs
• In collaboration with executive, medical and surgical leadership, develop and prioritize service based goals that support the organization’s strategic plan
• Serve as the liaison with Government Reporting, Financial Reporting, and Decision Support
• Ensure regulatory compliance with all applicable regulatory entities such as the Joint Commission (TJC), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Texas Department of Health and Human Services (THHS), and United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing and Master’s Degree in Nursing, Business, or healthcare related field required
• RN - Lic-Registered Nurses by Texas Board of Nursing or Nursing Licensure Compact required
• CNL - Cert-Clinical Nurse Leader by American Association of Colleges of Nursing preferred
• At least 5 years of experience in nursing, including 3 years of management/leadership experience and 3 years of transplant experience required

About Texas Children’s

Since 1954, Texas Children’s has been leading the charge in patient care, education and research to accelerate health care for children and women around the world. When you love what you do, it truly shows in the smiles of our patient families, employees and our numerous accolades such as being consistently ranked as the best children’s hospital in Texas, and among the top in the nation by U.S. News & World Report as well as recognition from Houston Business Journal as one of this city’s Best Places to Work for ten consecutive years. 

Texas Children’s comprehensive health care network includes our primary hospital in the Texas Medical Center with expertise in over 40 pediatric subspecialties; the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI); the Feigin Tower for pediatric research; Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women, a comprehensive obstetrics/gynecology facility focusing on high-risk births; Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus, a community hospital in suburban West Houston; Texas Children’s Hospital The Woodlands, the first hospital devoted to children’s care for communities north of Houston; and Texas Children’s Hospital North Austin, the new state-of-the-art facility providing world-class pediatric and maternal care to Austin and Central Texas families. We have also created Texas Children’s Health Plan, the nation’s first HMO focused on children; Texas Children’s Pediatrics, the largest pediatric primary care network in the country; Texas Children’s Urgent Care clinics that specialize in after-hours care tailored specifically for children; and a global health program that is channeling care to children and women all over the world. Texas Children’s Hospital is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine, one of the largest, most diverse and successful pediatric programs in the nation. 

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 Texas Children’s is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.