Korn Ferry has partnered with Baptist Health-Fort Smith to lead the search efforts for their next Director, Surgical Services. This nursing leadership role is based onsite in Fort Smith, AR.

• Current Arkansas Registered Nursing license. Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Nursing or related field preferred; evidence of successful progressive management experience with a minimum of 5 years in Nursing Management.

• Finance/budget: Understands financial impact of decisions. Appropriately integrates financial analysis into strategic and operational decision making. Prepares, justifies, and administers budget. Monitors expenditures and uses cost benefit thinking to set priorities.
• Taking Initiative: Personal responsiveness and readiness to initiate action.
• Self-awareness: Awareness of one’s own personality and individuality, including character traits, feelings, emotions, behaviors, motivations, thought process and individual composure.
• Performance/Developing Others: Improve the performance of people by providing ongoing constructive feedback, guidance, and reinforcement to employees regarding job performance. Holds self and others accountable for measurable high-quality, timely, and cost-effective results.
• Participative Management: Actively seeks a strong cooperative relationship with employees. Encourages employee responsibility, accountability, and authority over their work.
• Building Collaborative Relationships/Teams: Putting people at ease and considers and respects their differences. Encourages creative tension and differences of opinions. Anticipates and takes steps to prevent counter-productive confrontations. Manages and resolves conflicts and disagreements in a constructive manner.
• Process Improvement/Innovation/Agility: Continuously learning and developing self, others and the organization to identify and implement improvement ideas and strategies.
• Strategic Perspective: Formulates objectives and priorities, and implements plans consistent with the long-term interest of the organization in a global environment. Capitalizes on opportunities and manages risks.
• Decisiveness: Makes well-informed, effective and timely decisions, even when data is limited or solutions produce unpleasant consequences; perceives the impact and complications of decision.