Chief Nursing Officer - Seaside Hospital

Description

The Role:

The Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) provides executive leadership for nursing, ancillary, and support departments while overseeing hospital operations. This dual leader partners with clinical and operational leaders, medical staff, and the CAO to ensure efficient operations, successful execution of strategic plans, strong workforce recruitment and retention, and an exceptional patient experience.

As the senior nursing executive, the CNO is responsible for all nursing services at the facility level and ensures alignment with Providence Health & Services system and regional goals. This role ensures optimal care delivery, regulatory readiness, quality outcomes, and evidencebased nursing practice, all while fostering a culture grounded in safety, collaboration, and patientcenteredness.

The CNO advances the PHSOR Nursing strategic vision, drives operational excellence, and leads change across departments and service lines. A dottedline reporting relationship to the Regional CNO ensures strong alignment across the Providence system.

What You'll Do:

• Provide strategic direction to achieve local, regional, and system initiatives, including nursingspecific strategic goals.
• Integrate regional and sitebased programs to maximize resources, expand services, and meet community needs.
• Oversee inpatient care units and assigned departments, ensuring clinical and operational excellence.
• Partner with the Regional CNO, CMO, and medical directors to achieve quality, safety, and patient satisfaction goals.
• Collaborate with physicians, ensuring an optimal clinical practice environment and supporting medical staff needs.
• Participate in strategic planning and budget development with the CAO, finance leaders, and site managers.
• Keep patients at the center of all decisions, champion exceptional patient and family experiences.
• Develop coordinated systems of care that enhance seamless care across the continuum.
• Implement evidencebased practice models to reduce variation and improve outcomes.
• Lead implementation of the Quality Strategic Plan and monitor outcomes across the continuum.
• Represent Providence in community organizations, boards, and public events, advocate for improved health and nursing practice.
• Ensure regulatory compliance readiness and support audit preparation.
• Coordinate service line development and business priorities in collaboration with system and regional leaders.
• Serve as sponsor or lead for key councils, committees, and multidisciplinary teams.
• Promote professional growth through mentoring, coaching, leadership development, and succession planning.
• Support technology implementation and optimization, including electronic health record improvements.
• Participate in facility planning, equipment needs, and physical redesign projects.
• Lead service excellence initiatives and timely resolution of patient/customer concerns.
• Support leadership team meetings, staff education, and organizationwide learning.
• Provide oversight of assigned infrastructure functions as designated by the CAO.
• Model Providence's Mission and Values in all interactions and leadership actions.

What You'll Bring:

• Education
• Bachelor's degree in nursing
• Master's degree in healthcare or business administration
• Certifications & Licensure
• Oregon Registered Nurse License (Vendor Managed) - required
• National certification in nursing administration or ACHE credential - preferred
• Experience
• 10+ years of administrative experience in healthcare
• At least 5 years in a nursing, finance, or operations director role - or CNO role
• Experience leading multiple clinical and operational departments in a complex health system
• Skills & Competencies
• Ability to inspire, focus, and energize teams toward missionaligned goals
• Strong grasp of Providence's Mission, Core Values, and professional nursing standards
• Proven experience leading change, continuous improvement initiatives, and clinical transformation
• Executive presence with strong communication, consensusbuilding, and relationshipbuilding skills
• Deep knowledge of nursing practice, care delivery models, and regulatory requirements
• Strong business acumen in hospital operations, financial management, resource planning, and strategic development
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, balance competing demands, and maintain confidentiality
• Expertise navigating complex organizational, political, and interdisciplinary environments

Why Join Us?

• Lead clinical excellence : Guide nursing and operational teams in delivering outstanding, patientcentered care.
• Shape organizational strategy : Influence longterm planning, quality priorities, and growth initiatives.
• Collaborate with top leaders : Partner closely with executives, medical staff, and regional leadership.
• Elevate nursing practice : Advance evidencebased care models and staff development.
• Drive meaningful transformation : Lead initiatives that strengthen integration, technology, and service experience.

Ready to Shape the Future of Healthcare?

If you are a strategic, compassionate, and missiondriven nursing executive ready to guide clinical excellence and organizational performance, we invite you to apply and help us transform care for the communities we serve.

At Providence we believe in the importance of human connection and the impact of in-person collaboration towards team cohesion and caregiver engagement. Further, we want our leaders to live in or near the communities we serve. Therefore, leaders applying for this role will be required to work a hybrid schedule, which consists of three days onsite, two days remote and live within a reasonable commuting distance to the ministry or service area they support and lead.

About Providence

At Providence, our strength lies in Our Promise of "Know me, care for me, ease my way." Working at our family of organizations means that regardless of your role, we'll walk alongside you in your career, supporting you so you can support others. We provide best-in-class benefits and we foster an inclusive workplace where diversity is valued, and everyone is essential, heard and respected. Together, our 120,000 caregivers (all employees) serve in over 50 hospitals, over 1,000 clinics and a full range of health and social services across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. As a comprehensive health care organization, we are serving more people, advancing best practices and continuing our more than 100-year tradition of serving the poor and vulnerable.

Posted are the minimum and the maximum wage rates on the wage range for this position. The successful candidate's placement on the wage range for this position will be determined based upon relevant job experience and other applicable factors. These amounts are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.

Providence offers a comprehensive benefits package including a retirement 401(k) Savings Plan with employer matching, health care benefits (medical, dental, vision), life insurance, disability insurance, time off benefits (paid parental leave, vacations, holidays, health issues), voluntary benefits, well-being resources and much more. Learn more at providence.jobs/benefits.

Applicants in the Unincorporated County of Los Angeles: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Unincorporated Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Requsition ID: 412256

Company: Providence Jobs

Job Category: Nursing-Patient Facing

Job Function: Nursing

Job Schedule: Full time

Job Shift: Day

Career Track: Leadership

Department: 5000 PSH GENERAL ADMIN

Address: OR Seaside 725 S Wahanna Rd

Work Location: Providence Seaside Hospital-Seaside

Workplace Type: On-site

Pay Range: $83.59 - $151.04

The amounts listed are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.