Nurse Manager - Clinical Operations, Primary Care-McLean
About The Position
The Nurse Manager - Clinical Operations serves as a clinical operations leader responsible for coordinating, overseeing, and continuously improving daily ambulatory clinical services across the assigned department, division, or service line. The role aligns clinical workflows, staffing practices, patient care processes, and operational priorities to support safe, efficient, high-quality care, and connects clinical staff with administrative leadership, providers, and interdisciplinary partners. The position supervises and develops clinical staff through onboarding, competency validation, education, coaching, performance feedback, and corrective action in accordance with organizational policies. It provides day-to-day guidance, promotes professional development and staff engagement, and supports communication and accountability. Working with clinical and administrative leaders, the Nurse Manager helps ensure staffing models, scope-of-practice expectations, and clinical resources meet patient care needs and operational demands. The role also advances clinical quality, regulatory readiness, patient experience, and process improvement. It monitors clinical outcomes, supports chart audits and documentation standards, identifies workflow and compliance gaps, and partners with leadership and quality, regulatory, compliance, and interdisciplinary teams to implement sustainable solutions. The Nurse Manager exercises independent judgment, models professional nursing practice, supports resource stewardship, and contributes to a culture of safety, accountability, service excellence, and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN).
- At least five years of clinical experience as a Registered Nurse in a healthcare setting.
- Registered Nurse license issued by the Virginia Department of Health Professions or compact state nursing licensure.
- BLS Certification.
Nice To Haves
- Ambulatory setting experience.
- At least one year of leadership, charge nurse, or nursing management experience; leadership experience may be obtained concurrently with clinical responsibilities.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate, oversee, and continuously improve daily ambulatory clinical services.
- Align clinical workflows, staffing practices, patient care processes, and operational priorities with safe, efficient, high-quality care delivery.
- Supervise and develop clinical staff, including onboarding, competency validation, education, coaching, performance feedback, and corrective action.
- Provide day-to-day staff guidance, promote professional development and engagement, and establish communication and accountability standards.
- Collaborate with clinical and administrative leadership to ensure staffing models, scope-of-practice expectations, and clinical resources meet care and operational needs.
- Monitor clinical outcomes and support chart audits and documentation standards.
- Identify workflow or compliance gaps and partner with relevant teams to implement sustainable solutions.
- Advance clinical quality, regulatory readiness, patient experience, and process improvement initiatives.
- Model professional nursing practice, exercise independent judgment, and support resource stewardship and a culture of safety and service excellence.
Benefits
- Medical coverage, subject to eligibility requirements.
- Dental coverage, subject to eligibility requirements.
- Vision coverage, subject to eligibility requirements.
- Additional wellness benefits.
- Retirement benefits.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
