Nurse Manager - Clinical Operations, Orthopedics
About The Position
The Nurse Manager - Clinical Operations, Orthopedics is a clinical operations leader responsible for coordinating, overseeing, and continuously improving daily ambulatory clinical services. The role aligns clinical workflows, staffing practices, patient care processes, and operational priorities to support safe, efficient, high-quality care. It bridges clinical staff, administrative leadership, providers, and interdisciplinary partners to ensure patient care standards, organizational priorities, and department goals are implemented and sustained. The Nurse Manager directly supervises and develops clinical staff through onboarding, competency validation, education, coaching, performance feedback, and corrective action in accordance with organizational policies. The role provides day-to-day guidance, supports professional development and staff engagement, and promotes clear communication and accountability. In collaboration with administrative and clinical leadership, the 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 or compliance gaps, and partners with leadership and regulatory, compliance, quality, 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 concurrent with clinical responsibilities.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate, oversee, and continuously improve daily ambulatory clinical services.
- Align clinical workflows, staffing practices, patient care processes, and operational priorities to support safe, efficient, high-quality care.
- Supervise and develop clinical staff through onboarding, competency validation, education, coaching, performance feedback, and corrective action.
- Provide day-to-day staff guidance and promote professional development, staff engagement, communication, and accountability.
- Collaborate with administrative and clinical leadership to ensure staffing models, scope-of-practice expectations, and clinical resources meet patient care and operational needs.
- Monitor clinical outcomes and support chart audits and documentation standards.
- Identify workflow and 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, accountability, service excellence, and continuous improvement.
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
