Manager, Operating Room

ThedaCare

7d • Onsite

About The Position

The Manager, Perioperative Services manages the department’s day-to-day operations through the implementation of strategy, policy, and action planning. The manager analyzes, develops, and implements methods and processes to improve efficiency and ensures that resources are available to support effective care across multiple perioperative service lines. The role fosters patient-centered, specialized, evidence-based nursing care in partnership with surgeons and anesthesia through an interdisciplinary approach to treatment, research, education, and advocacy. It ensures nursing care meets quality standards and physician orders are followed.

The campus has eight operating rooms and specializes in orthopedic, spine, and pain procedures, as well as hand and upper-extremity and podiatry cases. The position leads team members, daily operations, staffing, quality, safety, and budget-related work in accordance with ThedaCare policies and values. It supports clinical advancement, evidence-based practices, shared decision-making, research, and professional development. Department-specific competencies are required.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing.
• Five years of progressive responsibility in a healthcare setting.
• Three years of leadership experience, including leading teams and/or projects.
• Current Wisconsin RN licensure.
• American Heart Association Healthcare Provider Basic Life Support (BLS).
• For OR and PACU requirements: American Heart Association Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS).
• Ability to move freely, including standing, stooping, walking, bending, pushing, and pulling, and to lift up to 50 pounds without assistance.
• Ability to meet department-specific competencies.

Responsibilities

• Manage team members in a manner consistent with ThedaCare policies and values, and support recruitment and retention of competent staff.
• Oversee daily activities and work processes to achieve quality outcomes.
• Ensure accurate time, attendance, and payroll practices.
• Ensure team members are informed, trained, and competent in new techniques, procedures, equipment, policies, and processes.
• Develop collaborative relationships with care team members and other departments.
• Communicate and appropriately escalate clinical and operational issues to the director of nursing or medical staff.
• Support shared decision-making and shared governance, including team-member participation in decisions about patient care delivery and the work and practice environment.
• Apply knowledge of aseptic techniques, surgical instrumentation and equipment, microbiology, contamination control, and sterilization and disinfection.
• Influence and shape clinical work within perioperative services and implement department direction in conjunction with current clinical advances.
• Support research and innovation, and use research findings and evidence-based practice to establish outcome-driven, patient-centered standards, practices, and care models.
• Lead by example, promote accountability, and mentor team members and support their professional growth.
• Manage daily staffing to meet productivity standards and patient needs.
• Work with the director on action plans for the budget and budget variances; contribute to preparation and implementation of the annual budget.
• Collaborate on decisions with long-term effects on cost-effective care.

Benefits

• Health coaches, relaxation rooms, health-focused apps, and mental health support.
• Minimal or zero copays and team-member cost-sharing premiums.
• Daycare access.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager