Vice President, Chief Nursing & Patient Operations Officer, North Florida

Nemours Children’s Health is seeking an experienced nurse leader to serve as Vice President, Chief Nursing & Patient Operations Officer, North Florida, overseeing nursing across our Jacksonville and Pensacola locations.

Lead with purpose. Advance nursing excellence. Help shape how children and families experience care.

At Nemours Children’s Health, your leadership can make a difference across an entire region. As Vice President, Chief Nursing & Patient Operations Officer, North Florida, you will bring together clinical vision, operational expertise, and a commitment to developing people to advance safe, high-quality, patient- and family-centered care across our North Florida clinical sites.

This is an opportunity to shape nursing and patient care strategy, champion innovative care delivery, and create an environment where nurses and allied health professionals can do their best work. You will partner with regional and enterprise leaders and physician department chairs to turn that vision into measurable improvements in clinical outcomes, patient experience, workforce engagement, and financial performance.

You will report to the President, Nemours Children’s Health, North Florida, with a matrixed relationship to the Enterprise Chief Nursing Executive and Patient Operations Officer and serve on the North Florida Executive Leadership Team. Enterprise and regional leadership responsibilities may be optimized based on organizational need.

The North Florida scope of this role includes the Jacksonville and Pensacola regions.

Your Impact

• Shape the regional vision: Bring nursing, allied health, and patient care teams together around a shared direction that connects North Florida priorities with enterprise goals.
• Make excellence part of every care experience: Champion evidence-based practice, benchmarked clinical and service standards, High Reliability, and Just Culture to strengthen safety, outcomes, and the patient and family experience.
• Turn strategy into sustainable results: Lead assigned services, operating and capital budgets, resource stewardship, productivity, and continuous improvement to advance operational and financial performance.
• Build teams that thrive: Partner with Human Resources to attract and retain talent, strengthen workforce planning, develop future leaders, and support succession planning. Empower associates through shared governance and collaborative professional practice.
• Help define what comes next in care delivery: Advance patient care models and nursing staffing standards grounded in research, professional scopes of practice, and organizational priorities.
• Advance professional practice: Foster nursing and allied health excellence through education, competency development, research, scholarship, and involvement in professional organizations.
• Lead with a commitment to readiness: Maintain ongoing survey readiness and compliance with applicable nursing practice requirements and regulatory standards.
• Connect expertise across the system: Build strong partnerships with medical, nursing, quality and safety, operational, and community leaders to advance shared goals.
• Create a culture of belonging and accountability: Foster an inclusive, supportive environment and bring Nemours’ Mission, Vision, Values, and Standards of Behavior to life in everyday decisions.

Requirements:

• Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) in nursing or a related healthcare field.
• A minimum of 7–10 years of current nursing leadership and management experience demonstrating progressive leadership development and competency.
• Current nursing licensure in the practicing state.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
• Strong strategic, operational, and financial leadership skills, including the ability to manage large, complex budgets and translate data into action.
• Demonstrated ability to lead organizational change, develop leaders, build collaborative relationships, and communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders.

Preferred

• DNP or PhD; a Doctorate in Nursing Executive Practice is preferred.
• Certification in nursing administration.

Previous experience in a senior nursing leadership, patient care services, or hospital operations leadership role.

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Why Nemours Children’s Health?

Your next leadership chapter can help shape a healthier future for children. At Nemours Children’s Health, our mission reaches beyond clinical care to encompass research, education, advocacy, and prevention—bringing these efforts together to help children thrive.

Here, you will combine regional leadership with collaboration across an integrated pediatric health system. You will have the opportunity to influence how care is delivered, strengthen professional practice, and develop the people who make exceptional care possible.

If you are ready to bring your clinical vision and operational leadership to a mission centered on children and families, we invite you to explore this opportunity with Nemours Children’s Health.