Baptist Health Louisville is seeking a dynamic and experienced Assistant Director of Critical Care to oversee the operations of our ICU/CCU departments. This role is responsible for ensuring high-quality patient care through the establishment and maintenance of clinical standards of practice and performance. The ideal candidate will support departmental operations through effective fiscal, resource, and human resource management while collaborating on the development and implementation of hospital-wide patient care programs, policies, procedures, and performance improvement initiatives. This position also plays a key role in fostering strong communication and collaboration with providers, as well as supporting recruitment and retention strategies, staff education, and competency development. Additionally, the role is responsible for leading and implementing process improvement projects aligned with organizational strategic initiatives and contributing to the overall strategic planning efforts for nursing services and the hospital.
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in nursing required.
MSN preferred and/or will be required within two years of hire.
Five years of nursing leadership experience with a strong knowledge of critical care practice required.
Work Experience
Education
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.
Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.
Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.
Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.
Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
