UTHealth Houston

Key Responsibilities

• • Developing and sustaining an environment in the patient care units that supports excellence and innovation in clinical practice and patient care through assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating programs and standards that support positive patient care outcomes, including excellent risk-adjusted outcomes.
• • Performing staff management functions, including interviewing, hiring, evaluating, counseling, and terminating of assigned management, clinical, and support staff.
• • Facilitating, reviewing, and approving the budget for UTHealth Houston and Surgery Services, including estimates of future personnel and equipment needs; ensuring that hospital resources are optimally utilized through participation in strategic planning and financial budgeting processes, and development of practices that achieve specific objectives and resolution of unfavorable performance variances; providing leadership and implementing strategies to provide cost-effective quality care.
• • Providing coaching, mentoring, support, and consultation to clinical managers, attending physicians, research personnel, colleagues, and clinical staff.
• • Serving as a role model in professional behavior and leadership skills, problem-solving ability, and interpersonal skills.
• • Delegating authority and accountability to clinical & nursing staff for clinical practice and patient care decisions consistent with professional standards, regulatory agencies, and organizational policies and procedures.
• • Identifying patient and family needs of the populations served; recommending and/or developing new programs and services to meet those needs; assuring that age-specific equipment, supplies, and educational resources are available for assigned units/services.
• • Collaborating with UTHealth Houston and hospital administration and physicians to identify future opportunities and define the direction of department services; developing and implementing plans to achieve identified goals, including OR efficiency, productivity, and patient throughput targets across the care continuum.
• • Maintaining an ongoing departmental Quality Improvement Plan and process consistent with the organizational Quality Management Plan; developing and implementing unit-specific standards, policies, and procedures that guide and support the provision of care and services; continuously assessing and improving assigned departments' performance while enhancing service.
• • Reviewing appropriate financial reports and making appropriate modifications in UTHealth Houston and MHH to reduce costs associated with supplies, staffing, and service agreements and/or identify sound alternatives for purchasing equipment and supplies.
• • Participating in and/or chairing committees, work groups, and meetings as appropriate.
• • Assuring interdisciplinary performance improvement programs are active, maintained, and ongoing. Following up to ensure that complaints have been satisfactorily handled. Collaborating to maintain a focus on providing excellent clinical services.