Director, Pediatric Surgical Services, Norton Children's Hospital
Louisville, KYFull-time$7.25/hrSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago
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Job overview
The Director of Surgical Services at Norton Children’s Hospital oversees pre‑operative, intra‑operative and post‑operative care, shaping policy, technology, quality and cost strategies while leading staff and managing financial performance of the surgical division.
Skills & qualifications
Skills
Qualifications
Full job description
Experience Required
None
Minimum Education Required
Bachelor's Degree
Compensation
$7.25 / hourly
Hours Per Week
40
Number Of Positions
1
Work Schedule and Shift Requirements
First (Day)
Job Description
Responsibilities
The Director of Surgical Services provides oversight to and direction for the full spectrum of preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative care. This includes, but is not limited to, making recommendations on policy issues and technology needs regarding surgical services, identifying opportunities to attain superior quality and safety at the best cost, implementing solution sets and ongoing evaluations of performance, as well as planning, directing and evaluating operational performance of the surgical services division.
Located in downtown Louisville, the 300-bed Norton C Hildren's Hospital is Kentucky and Southern Indiana's only full-service, freestanding pediatric hospital, the only Level I Pediatric Trauma Center in Louisville and serves as the primary pediatric teaching facility for the University of Louisville School of Medicine. Norton C Hildren's Hospital provides a complete range of services for c hildren, with more than 35 clinical specialties represented, including pediatric intensive care and one of the nation's largest Level IV neonatal intensive care units.
Key Accountabilities
Provide strategic and financial planning for surgical areas of responsibility. Responsible for the financial performance of surgical areas of responsibility by identifying areas of expense, revenue, growth and excess, including development of operating and capital budgets.
Provide direction to management staff within surgical areas of responsibility. Actively mentor and coach direct reports, providing opportunities for personal and professional growth. Provide a supportive environment for team building.
Provide overall leadership, direction and administration of operations for surgical areas of responsibility. Oversee the development and implementation of plans, operations and programs within assigned areas of surgical services. Actively participate in strategic planning, policy formulation, resource planning and facility planning. Remain current with local trends and changes in nursing profession/practice.
Provide leadership to surgical services management teams to achieve business goals, quality outcomes and customer satisfaction. Utilize a data-based approach and facilitate innovation and creativity in the identification and development of quality, safety and patient experience initiatives. Identify quality, safety and cost opportunities within surgical services and develop solution sets based on evidence-based best practices to improve the value of services provided. Lead change regarding quality of care and operational enhancements including implementation and communication plans.
Qualifications
Required:
Three years management in a healthcare setting
Bachelor Degree
Registered Nurse
Desired:
Master Degree
Norton Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/Disability/Veteran/S Exual Orientation/Gender Identity Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law
Job Type
Full time
Benefits Offered
Not specified
Veteran Preference
No
Place of Work
On-site
Requisition ID
162776
How this job compares
Set against the 9,509 open Director jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$7.25/hr
- US median$50–74/hr125 hourly ranges
This rate, $7.25/hr, is 88% below the US median midpoint ($60/hr) — in the lowest quarter of Director hourly ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 76 open Director jobs in Kentucky and 9,509 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience — less than three in four Director postings that state a minimum ask for (median 9 years, across 7,980 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 6,196 of the 9,509 open Director jobs (65%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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