Description

We are seeking a Chief Nursing Executive to lead nursing and patient care services throughout the SCVH enterprise with purpose, innovation, and impact. This is your opportunity to shape the future of nursing and patient care in one of the most complex, mission driven healthcare systems in the region. 

Requirements

Your Mission 
Lead, elevate, and transform nursing and patient care services across a comprehensive healthcare delivery system that includes acute care, specialty care, ambulatory services, behavioral health, trauma and burn services, rehabilitation, and more. As the Chief Nursing Executive (CNE), you will direct standards of care, drive excellence in autonomous nursing practice, and guide a workforce dedicated to advancing patient and family centered care. 
 
What Makes This Role Unique 

• Systemwide Leadership: You will oversee nursing, care management, and medical social services across SCVH’s full continuum of care, ensuring seamless integration, quality, and equity. 
• Strategic Scale: From emergency and critical care to maternal-child health, psychiatric services, perioperative care, and rehabilitation, you will guide clinical operations that touch thousands of patients each day. 
• Mission Driven Impact: As a senior executive, you will help shape organizational strategy, participate in key governance bodies, and influence care delivery across the region. 
• Commitment to Excellence: SCVH is advancing systemwide performance through quality improvement, evidence-based practice, and standards aligned with American Nurses Association Magnet principles. 
• Workforce Empowerment: You will set the vision for recruitment, retention, education, and professional growth for a diverse and expansive nursing workforce. 
   
  What You Bring
• Active California Registered Nurse (RN) license. 
• Master’s degree in nursing or a related healthcare/business field. 
• Approximately 5–10 years of increasingly responsible nursing administration experience, including senior leadership roles–ideally in a teaching hospital. 
• Expertise in nursing operations, quality, care management, performance improvement, regulatory compliance, and patient safety. 
• Ability to lead a large, complex patient care organization with strategic clarity, operational rigor, and strong relationships.
• Commitment to nursing excellence, staff development, and equitable, patient-centered care. 
   
  Application Process and Key Dates 
  This recruitment is continuous and will remain open until filled. First review deadline: Monday, August 24, 2026.    
   
  For the full job description, go to: https://direc.to/pcnt 
   
  To learn more about the County’s generous executive leadership benefits, go to: https://bit.ly/ExecBenefitsSCC 
    
   
  Questions regarding this Executive recruitment may be directed to: 
  Quynh Truong, Executive Services at quynh.truong@esa.sccgov.org 
   
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