AVP - Emergency and Trauma Services

Primary City/State:

HonorHealth - 8125 N Hayden Rd Scottsdale, AZ 85258 Category:

Clinical Operations Shift:

Day Department:

Emergency Department Administration

 Monday-Friday Days




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Responsibilities:


 JOB SUMMARY

The AVP of Emergency and Trauma Services serves as the accountable administrative executive for the systemwide Emergency and Trauma Services capability. The role provides delegated executive leadership for strategy, quality, standardization, program integration, governance, and performance improvement across emergency and trauma services. The AVP translates enterprise and service-line strategy into coordinated operating models, standards, priorities, scorecards, and action plans across hospitals, ambulatory settings, community partners, and joint-venture relationships.

The AVP has direct accountability for Pre-Hospital Coordinators and Hospital Base Agency Agreements, the Paramedic Program, the Forensic Nursing Program, and the Complete Care Intuitive joint-venture relationship across three sites. The AVP is the accountable administrative executive for the Emergency Department Collaborative and Trauma Collaborative and works in dyad or multidisciplinary partnership with physician, nursing, quality, operations, finance, legal, compliance, EMS, and community leaders.

The role exercises horizontal authority across the enterprise within a documented lane. Campus leaders retain accountability for daily operations, local staffing, and real-time workflow decisions. The AVP establishes system direction and standards, monitors variation and outcomes, resolves cross-campus issues within delegated authority, and escalates material policy, investment, risk, or portfolio decisions to the Senior Vice President.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• •Enterprise strategy and governance:
• Develops and executes the system strategy, operating model, priorities, governance structure, and annual objectives for Emergency and Trauma Services. Translates executive direction into measurable plans, standards, milestones, scorecards, and escalation pathways.
• •Quality, safety and standardization:
• Leads system quality, safety, reliability, and variation-reduction strategy for ED and Trauma Services. Establishes common standards, metrics, review mechanisms, and corrective-action expectations in partnership with clinical and operational leaders. Monitors adoption, outcomes, regulatory risk, access, throughput, patient experience, and performance variation across sites.
• •ED and Trauma Collaboratives:
• Serves as the accountable administrative executive for the Emergency Department Collaborative and Trauma Collaborative. Establishes agendas, decision rights, priorities, governance cadence, performance review, action ownership, and escalation. Partners with physician leaders and clinical executives to align clinical vision, operating standards, quality improvement, innovation, and network implementation.
• •Pre-hospital, base agency and paramedic programs:
• Provides executive oversight for Pre-Hospital Coordinators, Hospital Base Agency Agreements, EMS and community relationships, and the Paramedic Program. Ensures agreement performance, regulatory alignment, partner communication, program quality, strategic development, and coordinated access to the system.
• •Forensic Nursing Program:
• Provides executive oversight for the Forensic Nursing Program, including strategy, quality, standardization, workforce capability, partner coordination, regulatory alignment, program development, and performance monitoring.
• •Complete Care Intuitive JV relationship:
• Serves as the principal operational relationship owner for the Complete Care Intuitive joint venture across sites within approved agreements and delegated authority. Coordinates performance expectations, integration, quality, service delivery, issue resolution, partner governance, and escalation of material agreement or investment decisions.
• •Leadership, financial stewardship and integration:
• Leads assigned direct reports and formal matrix relationships. Establishes goals, accountability, succession and development expectations. Partners with campus administrators, CNOs, CMOs, ED Clinical Directors, finance and support functions on budgets, resource priorities, contracts, business cases, growth opportunities, and operational tradeoffs.

EDUCATION

• •Bachelors in Nursing from an accredited school of nursing. Required
• •Masters in Nursing, healthcare administration, business administration, or a related healthcare field. Preferred
• •Other / Certificate Doctoral degree in a healthcare-related field Preferred

EXPERIENCE

• •5 years, of direct-care registered nursing experience. Required
• •5 years, of progressive nursing management, healthcare administration, emergency services, trauma services, or service-line leadership experience. Required
• •Senior nursing, emergency, trauma, service-line, network, or multi-site leadership experience. Preferred

LICENSE AND CERTIFICATIONS

• •Registered Nurse - License, Current Arizona nursing license or compact state licensure upon hire; Arizona licensure must be obtained within 60 days of hire Upon Hire Required
• •Certification in nursing administration or relevant executive nursing leadership certification within one year of hire or promotion. Required




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