Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) Mary Bridge Children's

About the role

Join a team that shares your calling

At MultiCare, you’re more than just a job title — you’re part of a team built on trust that cares for each other, our patients and our communities. Belonging here means living our mission and values every day. If your purpose and passions align with ours, you’ll find a place to grow, do meaningful work and build a career you love in a community that feels like home.

• FTE: 1.0 Shift: Days Schedule: Business Hours
• The pay scale is $264,010-$326,056
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Position Summary

The Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) - MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital and Health Network – System Pediatrics is a senior executive leader responsible for advancing nursing excellence, clinical operations, quality, safety and patient experience across Mary Bridge Children's Hospital and Health Network. As a key member of the Mary Bridge executive leadership team, the CNO provides strategic vision and operational oversight for nursing services across the region's premier freestanding children's hospital and expansive pediatric ambulatory network.

The CNO is directly accountable for professional nursing practice, nursing operations, workforce development, nursing leadership development and care delivery across Mary Bridge Children's inpatient, ambulatory and community-based pediatric and neonatal services. The role ensures high-quality, safe, family-centered care, regulatory compliance and operational excellence while fostering a culture of professional practice, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

The CNO establishes pediatric nursing standards, leads quality and safety initiatives, and partners closely with nursing physician, operational and administrative leaders to improve clinical outcomes, patient experience and organizational performance across the MultiCare System.

In addition, the CNO serves as the pediatric and neonatal nursing representative on the MultiCare Chief Nursing Executive Council, providing expertise, influence and advocacy to advance systemwide nursing strategy, standards of care, workforce development and clinical excellence.

Through collaboration with MultiCare nursing leaders, the CNO helps ensure the unique needs of infants, children, adolescents and their families are represented in system-wide nursing priorities and initiatives.

This position has a dual matrixed reporting structure to President, Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital and Health Network and the MultiCare System Senior Vice President and System Chief Nursing Executive.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for nursing operations of Mary Bridge Children’s facilities, units and programs throughout the Pacific Northwest.
• Responsible for defining pediatric nursing care and establishing a consistent approach to clinical practice.
• Responsible for the development and implementation of clinical pathways and departmental policies and procedures that describe how nursing care needs of pediatric patients are assessed, evaluated, and met.

Requirements

• BSN required.
• Master’s or Doctoral degree in Nursing, Nursing Practice or other related field (MSHA, MHA, MBA, etc.).
• Current Registered Nurse license in Washington State or Multistate License endorsement (MLS).
• Ten (10) years of experience in progressively more responsible pediatric nursing management positions, preferably in a children’s hospital.
• Seven (7) years of clinical experience.
• Demonstrated executive experience leading complex inpatient nursing and patient care services in a pediatric hospital, including daily operations, acute care, critical care, specialty programs, staffing systems, capacity management, care coordination, and multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience in a children’s hospital, pediatric service line, or academic pediatric healthcare setting is strongly preferred.

Belonging for all

Resource Groups and outreach programs help ensure every team member feels safe, seen, heard and valued.

Pacific Northwest lifestyle

Work and live where natural beauty, adventure and strong community connections are part of everyday life.

Pay and Benefit Expectations

• We provide a comprehensive benefits package, including competitive salary, medical, dental and retirement benefits and paid time off.
• As required by various pay transparency laws, we share a competitive range of compensation for candidates hired into each position.
• Pay is influenced by factors specific to applicants, including but not limited to: skill set, level of experience, and certification(s) and/or education.
• If this position is associated with a union contract, pay will be reflective of the appropriate step on the pay scale to which the applicant’s years of experience align.

Associated benefit information can be viewed here.