The Director Advanced Practice — Institute provides institute-level APP leadership and serves as the primary APP program resource for institute leadership. The role is responsible for aligning APP workforce strategy, recruitment and retention priorities, collaborative practice models, onboarding execution, competency, professional development, quality and performance expectations, and operational priorities across institute services. The Director partners with physician leaders, administrative leaders, local APP leaders, and enterprise advanced practice leadership to improve APP role clarity, APP utilization, workforce deployment, APP leader development, and local execution of enterprise advanced practice standards. This position is primarily administrative and leadership-focused and may include a limited clinical practice component, as operationally appropriate, to maintain connection to specialty APP practice and support clinical credibility.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
EDUCATION, CERTIFICATION, AND/OR LICENSURE:
1. Current licensure in one of the following issued by the state in which services will be provided:
• Advanced Practice RN Licensure AND board certification
• Physician’s Assistant License AND board certification
To be completed as established by department: (Administered at Department level)
Basic Life Support (BLS) certification
Advanced Life Support (ACLS)
EXPERIENCE:
2. Seven (7) years of APP clinical practice experience or comparable advanced practice leadership
3. Three (3) years of progressive APP leadership, management, or administrative experience in specialty practice, institute operations, or a complex clinical service line in an academic medical center and/or multihospital system
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
EDUCATION, CERTIFICATION, AND/OR LICENSURE
1. Doctoral degree or additional advanced degree such as DNP, DMSc, MBA, MHA, or PhD.
EXPERIENCE:
2. Experience partnering with physicians and operational leaders in a matrixed environment.
3. Experience with APP workforce planning, APP utilization, APP development, and quality / performance oversight.
CORE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
The statements described here are intended to describe the general nature of work being performed by people assigned to this position. They are not intended to be construed as an all-inclusive list of all responsibilities and duties. Other duties may be assigned.
1. Provides institute-level APP leadership across institute services and serves as the central APP leadership point of coordination for the institute.
2. Works collaboratively with institute executive and medical leadership, physician leaders, operational leaders, the Assistant Vice President for Advanced Practice, and applicable APP oversight or governance structures to support institute operations, strategic planning, and APP program development.
3. Establishes and supports an APP governance structure for the institute and aligns APP leadership expectations, communication pathways, decision processes, and escalation pathways across institute programs and service areas.
4. Serves as the primary institute resource regarding APP utilization, collaborative practice models, workforce deployment, role design, growth planning, and care model development across institute services.
5. Partners with finance, Human Resources, recruitment, and operational leadership to support pro formas, FTE planning, job-description development, hiring decisions, recruitment and retention strategies, and other APP workforce-planning needs within institute services.
6. Coordinates existing APP leaders within the institute and supports alignment across specialty practice areas, service areas, or disease-focused programs as applicable.
7. Supports local implementation of APP onboarding, orientation, competency, professional development, and transition-to-practice expectations within institute services and identifies institute-specific barriers, gaps, and opportunities for improvement.
8. Promotes APP engagement, mentorship, communication, and leadership development within the institute and supports APP leaders in addressing volume growth, complexity, coverage, and organizational-design needs.
9. Partners with Medical Staff Affairs, Credentialing/CVO, enterprise advanced practice leadership, and physician leaders on APP credentialing, privileging, competency support, FPPE/OPPE processes, and institute-level interpretation of APP professional-practice expectations.
10. Collaborates with department chairs, medical staff leadership, Human Resources, Legal, and institute leadership on APP professionalism, conduct, and performance issues and escalates significant concerns through appropriate channels.
11. Provides leadership for APP-related quality, safety, patient experience, access, and performance priorities within the institute and partners with quality and operational leaders to identify and implement improvement opportunities.
12. Uses clinical, operational, and financial data, including productivity, ROI, access, staffing, quality, and utilization metrics, to inform APP workforce planning, performance oversight, APP value measurement, and operational decision-making within institute services.
13. Supports development and advancement of research efforts, learner support, academic partnerships, or specialty program initiatives that strengthen APP practice and workforce development within the institute, as appropriate.
14. Serves as the APP leadership representative for the institute in enterprise APP forums and cross-functional discussions, communicates enterprise APP priorities and decisions to institute APP leaders and stakeholders, and escalates institute APP issues, opportunities, and structural needs to enterprise advanced practice leadership.
15. Participates in committees and activities that enhance patient care, APP practice, operations, education, research, and clinical integration across the institute.
16. Maintains clinical practice within his/her specialty. 30% clinical effort is encouraged.
17. Performs other duties as assigned.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
1. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health recommends minimizing the need for employees to manually lift patients, and limit safe patient handling to 35 pounds. All transfers, lifts and re-positioning will be completed utilizing the lift equipment and/or other patient handling aids as indicated by the patient’s profile and appropriate algorithms.
2. Heavy/Hard work: Work requires strength and/or stamina, lifting, moving, stooping, reaching, standing, walking, and carrying of materials and equipment weighing 40+lbs.
3. Visual acuity must be within normal range.
4. Hearing within normal range is required (i.e. to assess breath sounds, bowel sounds, apical pulse, monitors, etc.)
WORKING ENVIRONMENT:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
1. Work in close contact with patients, families, and members of the healthcare team in a high-acuity clinical environment.
2. Work variable, extended, and/or irregular hours based on patient care and operational needs.
3. Frequent exposure to biohazardous materials, infectious diseases, and other clinical hazards consistent with the healthcare environment.
4. Exposure to electrical and other equipment-related hazards associated with patient care and monitoring equipment.
5. Frequent handwashing and exposure to water, cleaning agents, and other clinical substances required in the delivery of patient care.
6. Occasional exposure to deceased patients in the course of clinical practice, as applicable.
SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
1. Strong service-line / institute leadership skills in a complex specialty environment.
2. Ability to work effectively in a matrixed environment with physician, administrative, operational, and APP leaders.
3. Strong communication, influence, consensus-building, and conflict-resolution skills.
4. Ability to support APP workforce alignment, governance implementation, and institute-level execution of enterprise priorities.
5. Strong problem-solving, operational-planning, and performance-management capabilities.
6. Ability to use clinical, operational, and financial data to inform APP workforce and performance decisions.
7. Ability to coach APP leaders, build alignment across distributed APP structures, and support change management.
8. Ability to maintain credible working relationships across specialty clinical, operational, academic, and executive stakeholders.
Additional Job Description:
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40
Shift:
Exempt/Non-Exempt:
United States of America (Exempt)
Company:
UHA University Health Associates
Cost Center:
500 WVUH Administration
Address:
1 Medical Center DriveMorgantownWest Virginia
Equal Opportunity Employer
University Health Associates and its subsidiaries (collectively "UHA") is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. UHA strictly prohibits and does not tolerate discrimination against employees, applicants, or any other covered persons because of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, sex (including gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), age, physical or mental disability, citizenship, past, current, or prospective service in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. All UHA employees, other workers, and representatives are prohibited from engaging in unlawful discrimination. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, training, promotion, discipline, compensation, benefits, and termination of employment.
The West Virginia University Health System, which operates under the brand WVU Medicine, is West Virginia’s largest health system and the state’s largest employer with more than 3,400 licensed beds, 4,600 providers, 35,000 employees, and $7 billion in total operating revenues. The Health System is comprised of 25 hospitals – including J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital, an 880-bed academic medical center, and the 150-bed WVU Medicine Golisano Children’s Hospital in Morgantown, West Virginia – and five institutes. To learn more, visit WVUMedicine.org.
