Location:

Avera St Luke's Hospital

Worker Type:

Regular

Work Shift:

Primarily days with night, weekend and holiday on-call involvement (United States of America)

Position Highlights

You Belong at Avera

Be part of a multidisciplinary team built with compassion and the goal of Moving Health Forward for you and our patients. Work where you matter.

A Brief Overview

Reporting to the Regional President and CEO of Avera St. Luke's and working collaboratively with the Chief Mission Officer of Avera Health as well as mission leaders across Avera Health, this position assures the integration of the mission and values into strategic and operational decision making within all assets of the Avera St. Luke's Region. A member of the regional leadership team, the Vice President of Mission oversees mission programs and services, manages the coverage and structure of the regional mission team, and establishes and implements accountabilities for key roles and services on the mission team. The Vice President of Mission works collaboratively with all stakeholders in shaping the culture of Avera, which is grounded in Avera's values and expressed in an organizational spirituality established by the founding faith communities of Avera, the Yankton Benedictine Sisters and the Aberdeen Presentation Sisters.

What you will do

• Leads the integration of heritage, tradition, mission and values of Avera and its founders amid the changing context of health care. Educates and inspires persons throughout Avera recognize how their work advances the mission, values and healing ministry. Able to read the signs of the times to ensure evolving strategies are suited to bring Avera into the future with integrity.
• Serves as a partner in ensuring that the mission and values are expressed in Avera’s policies, practices and procedures. Collaborates with leaders to ensure recruitment, selection and retention are inclusive and consistent with Avera’s mission and values.
• Responsible for the creation, delivery, measurement and integration of effective programmatic services under mission, including formation, spiritual care, ethics, community needs assessments, and volunteerism.
• Cultivates an integrated spiritual life, articulates lived faith experience and the meaning it brings, as well as encourages and empowers individuals and Avera to do the same. Establishes community and relationships with diverse persons and groups, including local clergy, community partners.
• Applies theological training to the practical and pastoral issues encountered in health care. Identifies when theological and ethical principles are relevant and translate them into layperson’s language. Understands, applies and serves as a resource regarding the principles of Catholic social teaching and moral theology, including the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services (ERDs). Collaborates with system leaders in mission to deepen all facets of mission operations. Able to identify clinical and organizational ethical issues and facilitate an ethical discernment process in collaboration with key stakeholders, subject-matter experts and trained ethicists.
• Engages community and system leaders in dialog to ensure strategy, decisions, polices and budgets demonstrate a tangible commitment to justice, solidarity and right relationship. As requested by CEO and Avera Office for Public Policy, involved in setting advocacy priorities and collaborating with stakeholders to meet the demonstrated needs of the community.
• Has a working knowledge of Avera’s business and financial realities; meaningfully engages with other executive leaders in operational decisions. Stays apprised of changes and trends in the health care landscape; able to anticipate the mission and ethical implications and plan for the future.
• Participates in assessment process of senior management candidates to ascertain their willingness and ability to promote our mission and values.
• Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, developing, training, and retaining employees; planning, assigning, and leading work; appraising performance; rewarding and coaching employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

Essential Qualifications

The individual must be able to work the hours specified. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily including having visual acuity adequate to perform position duties and the ability to communicate effectively with others, hear, understand and distinguish speech and other sounds. These requirements and those listed above are representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform the essential job functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions, as long as the accommodations do not cause undue hardship to the employer.

Required Education, License/Certification, or Work Experience:

• Bachelor's preferably in Catholic theology, health care mission, ethics or equivalent
• Master's Completed within three years of hire
• Practicing Roman Catholic is well-formed in the Catholic theological tradition
• 4-6 years Leadership experience accompanied by the ability to work effectively with groups and in a complex and organizational structure

Preferred Education, License/Certification, or Work Experience:

• Master's preferably in Catholic theology, health care mission, ethics or equivalent

Expectations and Standards

• Commitment to the daily application of Avera’s mission, vision, core values, and social principles to serve patients, their families, and our community.
• Promote Avera’s values of compassion, hospitality, and stewardship.
• Uphold Avera’s standards of Communication, Attitude, Responsiveness, and Engagement (CARE) with enthusiasm and sincerity.
• Maintain confidentiality.
• Work effectively in a team environment, coordinating work flow with other team members and ensuring a productive and efficient environment.
• Comply with safety principles, laws, regulations, and standards associated with, but not limited to, CMS, The Joint Commission, DHHS, and OSHA if applicable.

Benefits You Need & Then Some

Avera is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to qualifying part-time and full-time employees. We support you with opportunities to help live balanced, healthy lives. Benefits are designed to meet needs of today and into the future.

• PTO available day 1 for eligible hires.

• Up to 5% employer matching contribution for retirement

• Career development guided by hands-on training and mentorship

Avera is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, Veteran Status, or other categories protected by law. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation for help with your online application, please call 1-605-504-4444 or send an email to talent@avera.org.