Nurse Manager II, Hospital - Operating Room - Hillsboro, OR

Job Summary

The Nurse Manager II, Hospital - Operating Room - Hillsboro, OR, is responsible for creating and advocating for developmental opportunities for others, building collaborative, cross-functional relationships, and managing hospital administrative functions to support patient care.

Responsibilities

• Solicits and acts on performance feedback; works with leaders and employees to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to drive performance improvement.
• Hires, trains, and develops talent for growth opportunities; strategically evaluates talent for succession planning; sets performance management guidelines and expectations across teams / units.
• Manages designated units or teams by translating business plans into tactical action items; oversees the completion of work assignments and identifies opportunities for improvement; ensures all policies and procedures are followed; partners with key stakeholders and business leaders to ensure products and/or services meet requirements and expectations while aligning with departmental strategies.
• Manages hospital administrative functions to support patient care by: negotiating timelines for action item implementation and monitoring compliance to financial commitments; developing and implementing ad hoc reports that capture workflows and developing strategies to achieve performance targets; developing and guiding short- and long-term operational initiatives, and managing program, services, and/or systems.
• Manages care delivery operations and programs within a twenty-four-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week operational environment by: developing strategic partnerships with physicians, subject matter experts, and service area leaders, and overseeing highly complex work streams with large program impact; leading the development and implementation of plans, policies, and processes for data-gathering and analysis while ensuring alignment with guidelines and regulations; aligning direct and/or indirect patient care management solutions across departments; managing resources in hospital areas to ensure appropriate assignment and utilization; leading multidisciplinary hospital team(s) and holding team(s) accountable for performance; assisting the design of emergency preparedness programs; ensuring the departments emergency preparedness and recovery plans are current, ensuring managers and staff are trained and understand expectations for during and after an emergency; leading project teams and/or initiatives and monitoring implementation, equitable distribution of resources, and delivery on objectives; and leading teams responsible for the delivery of nursing services and patient care within a twenty-four-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week operational environment in alignment with cost, quality, and clinical and utilization standards.
• Manages improvements to operations and technology processes by: leading and implementing long-term cross-functional strategic projects designed to achieve goals related to issue remediation and improved quality, service, affordability, and/or operating efficiency; developing and managing a structured approach for identifying root causes and implementing solutions to improve the performance of operations system processes and address quality and safety issues; collaborating with senior leadership on the development of strategic plans with the goal of achieving integrated services across the continuum of care; and ensuring performance metrics used to monitor the success of strategic improvement projects are tied to strategic organizational initiatives.
• Ensures safe, quality, and standardized care delivery within a twenty-four-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week operational environment by: driving the continuous improvement of the quality and safety of clinical practices, services, and operations for patients and staff; holding staff and direct reports accountable for maintaining compliance with legal and regulatory requirements (e.g., Nursing Practice Act, The Joint Commission [TJC], federal, state, and local requirements) updated by governmental and regulatory agencies; and leading the design and implementation of systems, processes, and methods to evaluate and improve patient care within assigned department and across the continuum of care.

Requirements

• A minimum of five (5) years of experience in patient care delivery.
• A Bachelors degree in Nursing (BSN) AND a minimum of five (5) years of experience in business operations, clinical health care, or a directly related field.
• A minimum of four (4) years of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.
• A Registered Nurse License (Oregon) required at hire.
• A Basic Life Support required at hire.

Qualifications

• Patient Safety
• Nursing Principles
• Emergency Preparedness
• Evidence-Based Medicine Principles
• Change Management
• Business Process Improvement
• Compliance Management
• Confidentiality
• Employee Training
• Conflict Resolution
• Stakeholder Management
• Health Care Quality Standards
• Health Care Compliance
• Maintain Files and Records
• Workforce Planning
• Legal And Regulatory Requirements
• Microsoft Office
• Information Systems

Benefits

Our compensation and benefits are designed to help you and your family stay healthy and thrive.

Culture

Our Nurse Leaders cultivate an environment of compassion, integrity, trust, and open communication that helps our teams do their best work. Together, we pursue lifelong learning in the belief that it expands our knowledge so we can better serve our patients. We participate in research to inform our evidence-based care. Our nurses reflect the rich diversity of our members and communities, and provide culturally responsive and competent care that promotes the understanding of our members’ needs and preferences. At Kaiser Permanente, nurses are highly skilled professionals who exemplify leadership, critical thinking, and collaborative problem-solving, and deliver the right care, at the right time, in the right setting.