Senior Nursing Director, Perioperative Services
About The Position
Provides executive-level perioperative nursing and administrative leadership at Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital, a nationally ranked, high‑performing surgical center known for exceptional clinical quality, surgical outcomes, and patient experience. Oversees multidisciplinary perioperative teams across inpatient, outpatient, and procedural areas, establishing standards for safety, efficiency, and operational excellence. Collaborates closely with surgeons, anesthesiologists, medical staff, and Sutter Health system leaders to promote high-value surgical care, improve throughput, and support continuous improvement. Plays a vital role in system-wide strategic planning, setting annual operating priorities, and guiding capital investments, while ensuring accountability for operating budgets, performance metrics, and maintaining top-decile results.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Nursing, Health Administration or related field, or equivalent education/experience.
- RN-Registered Nurse of California.
- BLS-Basic Life Support Healthcare Provider.
- 15 years of recent relevant experience.
- Demonstrates clinical proficiency and knowledge to effectively plan and coordinate patient care consistent with applicable standards and regulations.
- Understanding of clinical operations and workflows, and how operational process/workflow impacts other department operations.
- Working knowledge and thorough understanding of health care laws, licensing and accreditation requirements, and clinical standards of practice with the ability to interpret and implement applicable requirements to ensure operational compliance.
- Knowledge of emerging trends and regulatory changes, and how it impacts operations.
- Business acumen, demonstrating ability to establish goals and standards to meet long and short-term objectives and make sound business decisions.
- Demonstrates credible leadership presence with the ability to respond to questions with logic, clarity, calmness and authority; and the ability to engage others.
- Demonstrates familiarity with various methods of care delivery and quality improvement concepts.
- Ability to build and establish effective working relationships with employees, peers and leaders.
- Demonstrates collaboration skills to facilitate open sharing of information and cooperation with various stakeholders, and to build consensus.
- Demonstrates problem-solving skills with the ability to handle difficult circumstances.
- Working knowledge of wage and hour laws.
- Demonstrates commitment to providing exceptional customer service and responding to customer needs/requests in a prompt, courteous manner.
- Demonstrates verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey concepts and communicate information or issues in a manner that is readily understood by management and employees.
- Interpersonal and presentation skills to deliver presentations to a variety of audiences.
- Demonstrates understanding of financial planning, budgeting and the healthcare financial environment.
- Demonstrates effectiveness in achieving goals through individuals without having direct control of those resources.
- Demonstrates ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects in a fast-paced environment with changing business priorities.
- Demonstrates ability to work/interact with a diverse population while respecting cultural and linguistic differences and fostering an inclusive work environment.
- Demonstrates flexibility and is adaptable to change and is able to inspire others to welcome change.
Responsibilities
- Provides executive-level perioperative nursing and administrative leadership.
- Oversees multidisciplinary perioperative teams across inpatient, outpatient, and procedural areas.
- Establishes standards for safety, efficiency, and operational excellence.
- Collaborates closely with surgeons, anesthesiologists, medical staff, and Sutter Health system leaders to promote high-value surgical care, improve throughput, and support continuous improvement.
- Plays a vital role in system-wide strategic planning, setting annual operating priorities, and guiding capital investments.
- Ensures accountability for operating budgets, performance metrics, and maintaining top-decile results.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
