Manager, Perioperative Services

Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley • Pleasanton, CA

3d • $87 - $116 • Onsite

About The Position

The Manager of Perioperative Services is responsible for day-to-day leadership and operational management of perioperative nursing and clinical operations within the Interventional and Procedural Services Platform. Scope includes Operating Room operations and associated pre/post, PACU, and procedural recovery functions as assigned. Reporting to the Senior Director of Procedural Nursing and Clinical Operations, the Manager leads assistant nurse managers and staff to deliver safe, efficient, reliable, patient-centered surgical and procedural care. The role is accountable for staffing, scheduling, case readiness, room flow, clinical practice standards, quality and safety follow-up, employee engagement, regulatory readiness, and collaboration with surgeons, anesthesia, SPD, supply chain, and procedural scheduling.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in nursing required.
• Minimum of five (5) years of clinical experience in perioperative, PACU, procedural, critical care, or related acute care settings required
• BLS - Basic Life Support required .
• CA Registered Nurse - Valid license as a Registered Nurse issued by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN). Any combination of education and experience that would likely provide the required knowledge, skills and abilities as well as possession of any required licenses or certifications is qualifying.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in nursing, healthcare administration, or related field preferred
• Minimum of two (2) years of formal or informal leadership experience preferred
• Experience with OR flow, staffing, regulatory readiness, quality improvement, and physician/anesthesia collaboration preferred

Responsibilities

• Manage daily perioperative operations, staffing assignments, case readiness, add-on coordination, room flow, turnover performance, and recovery capacity coordination.
• Lead or participate in daily procedural huddles and ensure timely escalation of staffing gaps, instrument issues, equipment constraints, vendor needs, and recovery bottlenecks.
• Ensure reliable pre-procedure readiness, H&P/consent/lab/medication readiness processes, surgical safety checklist completion, and handoff standard work.
• Supervise assistant nurse managers, charge nurses, and team members as assigned.
• Support recruitment, onboarding, competency completion, scheduling, performance feedback, corrective action, retention, and staff engagement.
• Promote a culture of accountability, psychological safety, service excellence, and teamwork.
• Monitor quality and safety events, near misses, retained item risks, specimen labeling defects, infection prevention issues, and procedural verification reliability.
• Partner with Quality, Infection Prevention, SPD, Nursing Professional Development, and the Senior Director to implement corrective actions and sustain regulatory readiness.
• Ensure staff adherence to policies, clinical standards, documentation expectations, C-I-CARE, and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Improve first-case on-time starts, turnover time, cancellation avoidance, case duration accuracy, preference card accuracy, and staffing productivity.
• Partner with SPD and supply chain to strengthen instrument readiness, case cart completeness, preference card accuracy, implant/device processes, and vendor tray reliability.
• Manage budgeted expenditures, supplies, staffing resources, overtime, call utilization, and productivity within established expectations.

Benefits

• Stanford Health Care sets a high standard for delivering value and an exceptional experience for our patients and families. Candidates for employment and existing employees must adopt and execute C-I-CARE standards for all of patients, families and towards each other. C-I-CARE is the foundation of Stanford’s patient-experience and represents a framework for patient-centered interactions. Simply put, we do what it takes to enable and empower patients and families to focus on health, healing and recovery.
• Know Me: Anticipate my needs and status to deliver effective care
• Show Me the Way: Guide and prompt my actions to arrive at better outcomes and better health
• Coordinate for Me: Own the complexity of my care through coordination

What This Job Offers

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