Registered Nurse Manager Outpatient Community Operating Room
About The Position
This role involves managing and supervising nursing departments. Collaborating with nursing leaders and other facility managers and departments, the nurse manager is key in ensuring excellent patient care, achieving financial objectives, and fostering leadership development. The position is accountable for developing departmental structure, processes, and outcome standards, typically for one unit. The job duties are distributed as follows: 50% Tactical (day-to-day activities like staffing and equipment availability), 40% Operational (budget management, supply acquisition, and employee performance evaluations), and 10% Strategic (developing goals to meet the Intermountain/Regional Strategic Plan and holding employees accountable to these goals). Join a collaborative leadership team at Bear River Valley Hospital, where you'll oversee outpatient and community-based surgical services while supporting exceptional patient care and staff development. This role offers opportunities for leadership growth, strong interdisciplinary partnerships, and meaningful impact in a close‑knit healthcare environment. Just minutes from the hospital, you'll enjoy scenic parks, local cafés, fitness centers, and convenient shopping, all surrounded by the natural beauty and welcoming community that make northern Utah a wonderful place to live and work.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in nursing (BSN) from an accredited institution
- Current Nursing License to practice as a Registered Nurse in state of practice. Valid compact licenses must be transferred to the state of practice within 60 days of the start of employment.
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification for Healthcare Providers.
- Leadership/supervisory experience.
- Must complete Intermountain Health’s required leadership training and development courses within one year of accepting this leadership position.
- 2 years clinical experience.
Nice To Haves
- Specialty Certification
- Demonstrated experience in the area of oversight.
Responsibilities
- Overseeing the clinical nursing environment
- Contributing to strategic planning
- Managing day-to-day operations
- Establishing and maintaining standards of care
- Facilitating collaborative problem-solving
- Advocating for necessary resources
- Promoting shared decision-making
- Implementing the organization's vision and values
- Managing budgets, including annual capital/operating and personnel (FTE) budgets for the unit
- Ensuring employee engagement, recruitment, retention, and competency verification
- Championing the use of available resources to ensure nursing care is efficient, effective, safe, and delivered with compassion, in line with current practice standards
- Facilitating collaborative decision-making and upholding professional independence by contributing departmental perspectives to executive decisions and ensuring staff are updated on activities at the executive level
- Modeling and fostering an environment of professionalism and employee engagement on the unit
- Ensuring competent and sufficient staff to meet patient care needs, which includes hiring, orientation, retention, and employee satisfaction
- Ensuring that new skill training and ongoing competency verification is completed annually by providing mentorship and professional educational opportunities
- Evaluating staff competency through the use of performance reviews and peer reviews
- Coordinating performance and compliance with patient safety initiatives, federal, state, and other regulatory bodies such as Joint Commission, OSHA, CMS, DOPL, and other unit-specific accrediting and certifying bodies
- Facilitating the use of resources by nursing staff such as nurse practitioners, other expanded role RNs, and other specialty roles
- Serving as an exemplary figure for employees, promoting the integration of Healing Commitments and Healing Connections within all facets of providing patient care
- Monitoring and improving patient satisfaction utilizing available service metrics and national benchmarks to develop and implement action plans to achieve desired outcomes
- Partnering with physicians at the unit level to achieve clinical, operational, and service goals
- Supporting the Nurse Director in overseeing, organizing, and facilitating the activities of student nurses
- Supporting staff participation in outside community organizations such as volunteer health clinics, health fairs, and advisory boards for not-for-profit organizations
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
