Alaska Rural Healthcare Nursing Leadership Opportunities

Rural Staffing Services • Alaska, AK

19h • Hybrid

About The Position

Alaska Rural Healthcare is seeking experienced nursing leaders to join their network and help build a better way for rural healthcare. This application connects professionals with current and upcoming rural healthcare positions across Alaska that align with their experience and goals. By joining the Rural Staffing Services Talent Network, you contribute to a more thoughtful and connected approach to rural recruitment, enabling experienced nursing leaders and Alaska healthcare organizations to find each other more quickly. The network strengthens a growing group of individuals willing to bring their experience, leadership, resilience, and heart to rural, remote, and frontier communities. Rural Staffing Services partners with various healthcare organizations throughout Alaska, including rural hospitals, clinics, Tribal health organizations, regional health systems, community health centers, long-term care providers, and community healthcare organizations, to identify experienced nursing leaders who understand the unique needs of rural, remote, and frontier care. Current and upcoming opportunities include nurse manager, nursing supervisor, house supervisor, director of nursing, nursing education, and related nursing leadership roles.

Requirements

• Current Registered Nurse licensure or eligibility for Alaska licensure
• Progressive nursing experience
• Previous leadership experience as a nurse manager, supervisor, house supervisor, director, or comparable nursing leader
• Strong clinical judgment, communication, organization, and problem-solving skills
• Experience supporting staffing, scheduling, employee development, or nursing operations
• Knowledge of quality, patient safety, regulatory requirements, infection prevention, and nursing standards
• The ability to remain calm, visible, practical, and supportive during challenging situations
• Experience leading through workforce shortages, organizational change, or operational instability
• Experience supporting nurses across multiple departments, facilities, or communities may be valuable
• Experience with rural hospitals, Critical Access Hospitals, FQHCs, Tribal health organizations, regional health corporations, clinics, long-term care providers, or community healthcare organizations
• Experience working with Alaska Native communities, Tribal health organizations, Indian Health Service programs, or tribally operated systems may be highly valued for some opportunities
• Relevant education and certification based on the specific position
• A collaborative, dependable, culturally respectful, and relationship-focused leadership style

Nice To Haves

• Some opportunities may require or prefer a bachelor's degree in nursing, a master's degree, specialty certification, or previous experience within a particular clinical department.

Responsibilities

• Providing daily leadership, guidance, and support to nursing teams
• Overseeing staffing, scheduling, patient flow, call coverage, and nursing operations
• Supporting safe, high-quality, patient-centered, and culturally respectful care
• Mentoring, coaching, and developing nurses, charge nurses, supervisors, and emerging leaders
• Strengthening employee engagement, retention, accountability, and workplace culture
• Responding to staffing concerns, clinical issues, emergencies, and operational challenges
• Supporting orientation, education, competency, and professional development
• Collaborating with physicians, advanced practice providers, executives, department leaders, community health aides, and support services
• Monitoring quality, safety, documentation, infection prevention, and patient-care standards
• Developing and maintaining nursing policies, procedures, protocols, and workflows
• Supporting regulatory readiness, accreditation, surveys, audits, and corrective action plans
• Participating in recruitment, interviewing, onboarding, workforce planning, and succession planning
• Helping improve communication between shifts, departments, facilities, communities, and leadership
• Supporting nurses working across emergency, inpatient, outpatient, clinic, long-term care, maternal health, surgical, or community-based services
• Helping maintain coverage during vacancies, weather disruptions, transportation delays, or increased patient demand
• Supporting telehealth, regional consultation, and coordination between village-based care and regional hospitals
• Supporting patients, families, employees, and communities during difficult or unexpected situations
• Helping ensure nursing services remain stable, dependable, and available to the communities being served

Benefits

• The schedule, compensation, relocation assistance, housing, travel requirements, call expectations, clinical scope, reporting structure, and employment arrangement will be explained before you decide whether to move forward with a specific opportunity.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed