Director Medical Surgical Services

Northside Hospital is award-winning, state-of-the-art, and continually growing. Constantly expanding the quality and reach of our care to our patients and communities creates even more opportunity for the best healthcare professionals in Atlanta and beyond. Discover all the possibilities of a career at Northside today.

1. Assumes responsibility for, through assigned department manager(s) or coordinator(s), the effective management of departments within Med/Surg.  Evaluates daily activities and makes operational changes as necessary to improve service levels.
2. Identifies the needs of those departments and individuals (hospital and Medical Staff) served by the assigned department and develops departmental goals and objectives and policies and procedures which meet those needs and which support and promote the accomplishment of Divi­sion and Hospital goals and the enhancement of services.
3. May develop and provide in‑put into hospital‑wide policies or departmental policies that impact across division lines.  Actively participates on hospital committees which addresses operational issues.
4. Assumes division wide and hospital‑wide responsibilities for projects and issues as assigned by the Vice President.  Actively participates on hospital committees.
5. May negotiate agreements with provider groups for certain products and services.

REQUIRED

• Master’s degree in Nursing or BS degree in Nursing or related healthcare field and a minimum of five (5) years nursing experience, with at least two (2) years in a supervisory or managerial capacity; or equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
• Good written and oral communication skills.

PREFERRED

• Two (2) years clinical experience in specialty.