Manager, Perioperative, OR

Sutter Health•Modesto, CA

22h•Onsite

About The Position

This position involves managing and providing operational and nursing leadership to ensure the quality of nursing care across Preoperative, Intraoperative, and Postoperative areas. The role includes planning and organizing operations and resources for effective and efficient patient care delivery, adhering to applicable laws, standards, and regulations. The manager will also provide direct patient care, act as a staff resource, and ensure patient care needs are met. Responsibilities extend to demonstrating critical thinking, coordinating unit activities, staffing plans, and resolving inter/intra-departmental issues in collaboration with other disciplines, surgeons, and anesthesiologists. The manager will assess care quality, provide input for staff mentoring/evaluation, staffing, hiring, performance management, and daily unit operations. Establishing protocols and practices, ensuring compliance with department, affiliate, operating unit, system standards, policies, procedures, TJC standards, and relevant laws is also key. The role requires providing guidance and direct intervention in complex situations. Sutter Memorial Medical Center is a community-based, not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing high-quality, compassionate care and improving the health status of Stanislaus County citizens. It offers a full continuum of care, fostering an integrated system with physicians, other healthcare providers, and payers.

Requirements

Recent 3+ years of leadership experience in an acute care hospital setting
Graduate of an accredited school of nursing
RN - Registered Nurse of California
BLS - Basic Life Support Healthcare Provider
8 years recent relevant experience
Solid understanding of operations and workflows and how department’s process/workflow impacts other department operations
Demonstrates understanding of business and operational requirements
Demonstrated leadership skills, including team building, and coaching/mentoring with the ability to motivate and engage others
Demonstrates solid clinical proficiency and knowledge to effectively plan and coordinate patient care consistent with applicable laws, standards and regulations
Working knowledge and thorough understanding of state/federal/local and/or accreditation standards and requirements as it relations to operations and organization, with the ability interpret and implement applicable standards and requirements
Demonstrates understanding of healthcare financial environment
Demonstrates ability to develop and manage a budget
Understands age specific needs in providing care to patient population served
Demonstrates tactical and analytical thinking and planning skills, and is able to develop plan to accomplish objectives, identify obstacles and resolve operational issues
Knowledge of emerging treads and how it impacts operations
Ability to build and establish effective working partnership with employees, peers and/or leaders to achieve business objectives
Demonstrates ability to handle confidential and sensitive issues
Verbal and written communication, and interpersonal skills
Ability to handle difficult circumstances and make sound business decisions with little direction
Demonstrates ability to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment with changing business priorities
Organizational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritize multiple projects while delivering quality service and achieving business results
Demonstrates a customer service focus in all decisions and actions
Demonstrates ability to work/interact with a diverse population while respecting cultural and linguistic differences and fostering an inclusive work environment
Working knowledge of wage and hour laws

Nice To Haves

BSN preferred

Responsibilities

Manages and provides operational and nursing leadership ensuring the quality of nursing care within Preoperative, Intraoperative, and Postoperative areas.
Plans and organizes operations and resources to ensure effective and efficient delivery of patient care consistent with applicable laws, standards and regulations.
Provides patient care and acts as a resource person to the staff and assures patient care needs are met in the department.
Demonstrates critical thinking skills and, in collaboration with other disciplines, surgeons, anesthesiologists, is able to coordinate unit activities, staffing plans and contributes to resolving inter and intra departmental problems.
Assesses the quality of care delivered and provides input for staff mentoring/evaluation, staffing, hiring, performance management and general daily operation of the unit.
Establishes protocols and practices, ensuring compliance with department, affiliate, operating unit, and/or system standards, policies and procedures, the Joint Commission (TJC) standards, and applicable laws and regulations.
Provides guidance and/or direct intervention in resolving challenging or complex situations.