Vice President, Operations, PeriOperative and Procedural Services

About the role

Number of Positions In Requisition

1



Job Details

The VP Periop provides oversight and strategic leadership for perioperative and procedural services across multiple hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, procedural centers, and other locations throughout the organization.

About the role

The VP Periop establishes an integrated operating model across sites and services to maximize the use of available capacity and appropriately match patients, procedures, physicians, equipment, staffing, and facilities to the most appropriate location.

The VP Periop will lead a highly integrated enterprise operating model and may have direct or matrixed responsibility for perioperative and procedural leaders across multiple locations.

• Enterprise strategy & growth: identify opportunities to expand surgical and procedural capacity and improve access across the enterprise.
• Perioperative & Procedural Operations: Optimize OR and Procedural room utilization, block allocation, scheduling practices, turnover, throughput, and prime-time capacity.
• Physician Partnership & Governance: Establish strong, collaborative partnerships with surgical and procedural department chairs, in order to establish clear expectations between physician practices, and PeriOp operations regarding scheduling and operational readiness.
• Capacity Management & Access: Establish methodologies to measure demand versus available capacity by site, specialty, physician, room, equipment, and workforce.
• Quality, Safety & Regulatory Compliance: Partner with quality, infection prevention, risk management, medical staff, and nursing leadership to improve surgical and procedural outcomes.
• Workforce & Organizational Development: Assess current and future workforce requirements based on procedural demand, operating hours, productivity, specialty mix, and growth plans.
• Capital & Equipment Management: Partner with surgeons, physicians, nursing, Supply Chain, Biomedical Engineering, Finance, and Value Analysis to assess clinical need, utilization, lifecycle, technology requirements, and financial impact.
• Sterile Processing & Surgical Supply Chain: Provide strategic oversight and accountability for Sterile Processing/Distribution and its integration with perioperative operations. Ensure SPD capacity is aligned with current and projected surgical and procedural growth.
• Data Analytics & Performance Management: Use data to identify performance variation between sites and service lines and develop targeted improvement plans.

Areas of responsibility may include

• Operating rooms across hospital and ambulatory locations
• Perioperative services and patient preparation
• Post-anesthesia care and recovery services
• Ambulatory surgery and hospital-based procedural centers, including GI and endoscopy services
• Non-operating room procedural areas, including GI/Endoscopy, bronchoscopy suites, interventional radiology, cardiac catheterization, and electrophysiology labs
• Sterile Processing / Sterile processing distribution
• Perioperative scheduling and access
• Surgical/procedural capacity management
• Operating room technology and equipment
• Procedural capital planning
• Perioperative supply and resource utilization
• Surgical/procedural throughput and patient flow
• Enterprise procedural growth initiatives

Qualifications

Education

• Master’s Degree required

Experience Requirements

• Minimum of five years demonstrated experience in leadership role in perioperative services.
• Prior hospital operations executive leadership experience strongly preferred.
• Work Shift
• Workday Day (United States of America)
• Worker Sub Type
• Regular
• Employee Entity

Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, Inc.

Primary Location Address

• 111 S 11th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
• Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value.

Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research.

Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students.

Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region.

Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.

Benefits

Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts.

Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.

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