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A leading acute care hospital located eastern Massachusetts is now seeking an experienced Perioperative Nurse Manager to join their award-winning healthcare team!

Renowned for its exceptional healthcare services, this premier medical facility is well-regarded for providing comprehensive, patient-centered care. With an impressive suite of services, including advanced surgical procedures, cardiology, orthopedics, and oncology, it is committed to addressing a wide range of health needs. The hospital's dedication to quality and innovation is reflected in its numerous awards, recognizing it as a leader in patient safety and clinical excellence. Boasting a team of highly skilled medical professionals, the community-focused institution continually strives to deliver top-notch healthcare, ensuring patients receive both compassionate and cutting-edge treatment.

Reporting to the Director Surgical Services, the Perioperative Nurse Manager will oversee all clinical and administrative functions of a 7 Operating Room department with a staff 30 FTE's. Responsibilities include coordinating patient care, ensuring adherence to clinical policies, implementing best practices, and fostering a collaborative team environment. An essential aspect of the role involves mentoring and developing the nursing staff, ensuring high standards of care, and maintaining compliance with healthcare regulations. This position requires a strategic thinker who can drive departmental performance, quality improvement, and patient safety initiatives.

What's Needed to Succeed:

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing BSN
• Registered Nurse RN license in the state or ability to obtain
• Progressive experience in a surgical nursing setting, including circulating and scrub experience

• Leadership & Development:
  • Create and advocate for developmental opportunities for staff, fostering a collaborative and high-performing team.
  • Provide open feedback, coaching, and set clear performance expectations to drive continuous improvement.
  • Participate in talent acquisition, training, and succession planning to build a strong and resilient workforce.
  • Stay current with organizational changes, industry trends, and best practices, and integrate them into daily operations.
  • Foster open dialogue, engage, motivate, and promote collaboration within and across teams to meet business objectives.
  • Delegate tasks and decisions appropriately, providing necessary support and guidance.
• Operational Management:
  • Translate business plans into actionable tactical items for designated units or teams.
  • Oversee work assignments, identify improvement opportunities, and ensure adherence to all policies and procedures.
  • Partner with key stakeholders to ensure services meet requirements and align with departmental strategies.
  • Manage and optimize the use of equipment, supplies, and medications, ensuring a safe environment for patients and employees.
  • Proactively monitor resource needs across clinical areas to ensure appropriate assignment and utilization.
  • Manage hospital administrative functions, including financial commitments, budget development and control, and human resources (recruitment, performance management, labor relations).
  • Ensure continuous survey readiness and compliance with regulatory standards (e.g., The Joint Commission, federal, state, and local requirements).
• Patient Care & Quality:
  • Lead the implementation of patient care delivery systems and practice standards across several locations.
  • Facilitate collaboration with physicians and other healthcare team members to achieve optimal and safe patient care.
  • Delegate tasks related to the investigation and resolution of patient/family/member concerns.
  • Maintain clinical expertise, provide clinical supervision, and ensure staff competency and licensing.
  • Drive continuous improvement in the quality and safety of clinical practices, services, and operations for patients and staff.
  • Design and implement systems, processes, and methods to evaluate and improve patient care within the assigned department and across the continuum of care.
  • Perform clinical duties as required.
• Strategic Initiatives:
  • Lead the implementation of best practice models and strategic projects focused on issue remediation, improved quality, service, and efficiency.
  • Develop and manage a structured approach for identifying root causes and implementing solutions to enhance operational processes and address quality and safety issues.
  • Collaborate with senior leadership on strategic planning to achieve integrated services across the continuum of care.
  • Ensure performance metrics are aligned with organizational strategic initiatives.

• Minimum Five (5) years of experience in patient care delivery.
• Minimum Four (4) years of experience in a leadership role (with or without direct reports).
• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (BSN) AND minimum five (5) years of experience in business operations, clinical healthcare, or a directly related field.
• A few years of Operating Room (OR) experience is required.
• Registered Nurse (RN) License (California) required upon hire.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required upon hire.

• Manages the units day to day clinical operations including practice standards, staffing, payroll, budgets, fiscal management, and quality improvement. Ensures the highest quality of care is provided and is in compliance with federal, state, and local regulatory requirements and established departmental policies and procedures.
• Develops and implements action plans to improve staff development. Supervises a single unit (8 to 24 hours) of approximately 20 - 60+ employees.
• Monitors the allocation and utilization of personnel based on continual changes in patient population/needs and provides the best level of patient care while identifying savings opportunities.
• Supervises the daily unit operations, including human resources management, department and employee safety programs, and risk management.
• Monitors the quality of service and utilization standards and assumes specific responsibility for patient care at the unit level. Ensures coordinated plans of treatment, customer focused care and cost effective utilization of services.
• Works with health care providers outside of the unit, to achieve optimal patient care across the continuum. Researches, identifies, and implements best practice models of other units. Investigates and resolves patient/family member concerns regarding patient care.

• Minimum two (2) years of nursing experience required.
• Minimum two (2) years of experience as charge nurse, preceptor, quality improvement champion or other related leadership experience.

• Bachelors of Nursing Required
• Graduate of accredited school of nursing.
• Masters Preferred

• Registered Nurse License (California) required at hire

• Basic Life Support

• Evidence of training completion as preceptor or charge nurse.
• Demonstrated knowledge of quality improvement, clinical care delivery processes, staffing, & budgeting.
• Knowledge of Nursing Practice Act, The Joint Commission & other federal, state, & local regulatory requirements.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills.
• ACLS, PALS, NRP certification may be required for positions in specific departments.
• Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.

• ACLS certification strongly preferred.
• Masters degree in nursing preferred.
• Experience as a Preceptor, Trainer or Educator helpful
• Experience in a union environment
• Strong, positive communication style, collaborative, patient
• Able to resolve challenges quickly in a fast-paced environment

• Oversee comprehensive nursing care for patients aged 17 and older in a 45-bed surgical unit.
• Administer and monitor patient health during post-operative recovery, while managing various medical conditions.
• Specialize in the care of surgical patients in orthopedics, bariatrics, vascular, neurology, and general surgery.
• Manage general medical conditions such as sepsis, respiratory diseases, gastrointestinal issues, skin and wound care, and infections.

• Valid RN license.
• Preferred: Minimum of 3+ years of experience in a medical/surgical unit.
• Proven experience in managing a broad spectrum of surgical and medical conditions.

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.
• Opportunities for professional development and continued education.
• Supportive, collaborative team environment.
• Access to state-of-the-art facilities and resources.
• And more!

• Lead and manage all services, functions, and processes within Perioperative Services.
• Develop, monitor, and revise functional processes to ensure efficiency and effectiveness.
• Approve procedures and protocols, seeking departmental approvals as appropriate.
• Provide input into the development and revision of the organizational structure for areas of responsibility.
• Approve personnel actions, including hiring, disciplinary actions, and terminations.
• Ensure the timely completion of performance appraisals for your team.
• Identify needs for policy development and revision, defining policies in collaboration with higher-level management.
• Collaborate with senior leadership to develop and implement current to intermediate goals and measures for your areas of responsibility.
• Measure and assess performance, assisting in long-range goal development as requested.
• Develop and monitor the budget for Perioperative Services, ensuring fiscal responsibility.
• Monitor activities and ensure compliance with all applicable laws, government regulations, Joint Commission requirements, and hospital policies.
• Implement external and internal audit recommendations as directed.
• Ensure departmental objectives for diversity of suppliers are achieved.

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Nursing, Business, Health Care Administration, or a related field. One of the two degrees must be in Nursing.
• Experience: Seven (7) years of progressively more responsible clinical experience, which may include concurrent clinical and/or progressively more responsible management experience.
• Licensure: Current Registered Nurse (RN) license in the state of Michigan.

• Analytical Acumen: Proven ability to create solutions for complex administrative, technical, or human resource situations. Capable of anticipating and resolving a broad range of issues, evaluating situations independently, outlining ramifications of multiple solutions, and recommending goals.
• Communication & Interpersonal Skills: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for effective interactions with internal and external stakeholders. Ability to obtain and interpret information based on departmental practices, policies, and regulatory knowledge. Demonstrated discretion, conflict resolution skills, diplomacy, tact, and active listening. Ability to read, interpret, and write technical materials.
• Healthcare Operations Knowledge: Broad technical knowledge of healthcare administration and operations, including human, legal, technological, fiscal, and customer aspects of care delivery.
• Project Management: Strong project management skills, including defining objectives, identifying stakeholders, planning steps, and coordinating human, technological, and fiscal resources to achieve goals efficiently.
• Leadership: Demonstrated willingness to pursue leadership roles with increasing accountability, comfort with decision-making responsibilities, and effective coaching, teaching, and counseling skills. Ability to inspire, build confidence, forge alliances, and garner support.

Detroit, Michigan, United States
$100,000 - $150,000 + Full Benefits + Paid Relocation + Signing Bonus 

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Nursing Director, Perioperative Services  to provide comprehensive leadership for our perioperative services in Detroit, Michigan. This pivotal role reports directly to the site Chief Nursing Officer and indirectly to the Administrative Director, Nursing Specialty - Perioperative Services for the market.

As the Nursing Director, you will be instrumental in overseeing all services, functions, and processes within Perioperative Services. You will have significant programmatic responsibilities within Nursing, contributing to and influencing policy and procedure development, equipment standardization, capital planning, standard work measures, and recruitment and retention efforts. Your expertise will also be crucial in driving process improvement initiatives and coordinating the Joint Commission Survey Process.

• Lead and manage all services, functions, and processes within Perioperative Services.
• Develop, monitor, and revise functional processes to ensure efficiency and effectiveness.
• Approve procedures and protocols, seeking departmental approvals as appropriate.
• Provide input into the development and revision of the organizational structure for areas of responsibility.
• Approve personnel actions, including hiring, disciplinary actions, and terminations.
• Ensure the timely completion of performance appraisals for your team.
• Identify needs for policy development and revision, defining policies in collaboration with higher-level management.
• Collaborate with senior leadership to develop and implement current to intermediate goals and measures for your areas of responsibility.
• Measure and assess performance, assisting in long-range goal development as requested.
• Develop and monitor the budget for Perioperative Services, ensuring fiscal responsibility.
• Monitor activities and ensure compliance with all applicable laws, government regulations, Joint Commission requirements, and hospital policies.
• Implement external and internal audit recommendations as directed.
• Ensure departmental objectives for diversity of suppliers are achieved.

Requirements

• Qualifications:
• Education:  Bachelor's degree in Nursing, Business, Health Care Administration, or a related field. One of the two degrees must be in Nursing.
• Experience:  Seven (7) years of progressively more responsible clinical experience, which may include concurrent clinical and/or progressively more responsible management experience.
• Licensure:  Current Registered Nurse (RN) license in the state of Michigan.
• Skills Required:
• Analytical Acumen:  Proven ability to create solutions for complex administrative, technical, or human resource situations. Capable of anticipating and resolving a broad range of issues, evaluating situations independently, outlining ramifications of multiple solutions, and recommending goals.
• Communication & Interpersonal Skills:  Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for effective interactions with internal and external stakeholders. Ability to obtain and interpret information based on departmental practices, policies, and regulatory knowledge. Demonstrated discretion, conflict resolution skills, diplomacy, tact, and active listening. Ability to read, interpret, and write technical materials.
• Healthcare Operations Knowledge:  Broad technical knowledge of healthcare administration and operations, including human, legal, technological, fiscal, and customer aspects of care delivery.
• Project Management:  Strong project management skills, including defining objectives, identifying stakeholders, planning steps, and coordinating human, technological, and fiscal resources to achieve goals efficiently.
• Leadership:  Demonstrated willingness to pursue leadership roles with increasing accountability, comfort with decision-making responsibilities, and effective coaching, teaching, and counseling skills. Ability to inspire, build confidence, forge alliances, and garner support.

Benefits

Description Summary: Demonstrates proficiency and independence in the care of patients and their families/significant others by applying and documenting the nursing process, assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation. Consults with staff, physicians and management on nursing problems and interpretation of hospital policies to ensure patient needs are met. Continues to learn new skills and maintains clinical competency within the department to provide direct and safe patient care. Responsibilities: Meets expectations of the applicable OneCHRISTUS Competencies: Leader of Self, Leader of Others, or Leader of Leaders. Promotes positive public relations for the department and the hospital by presenting self in a professional manner; assisting in community service programs, as requested. Ability to problem solve patient/family issues to a positive conclusion for all involved. Demonstrates communication skills necessary to interact with persons of varying age and/or cultures. Always displays a positive attitude. Develops and maintains good relationships with co-workers, other department staff and physicians No disruptions. Practices five rights of medication administration. Demonstrates efficient time management skills to maximize productivity. Demonstrates and encourages teamwork. Asks for assistance and information from others when necessary. Support the Mission and Philosophy of the hospital and the Department. Demonstrates an understanding of and complies with Policies & Procedures. Supports a nursing philosophy of caring. Acts as patient advocate, including family in patient’s care and respecting confidentiality. Able to set aside personal values to care for patients whose values conflict. Respects the patient’s cultural and religious beliefs. Effectively deals with end-of-life decisions (code status). Can be relied upon to work assigned shifts. (Refers to absenteeism). Is accountable for actions, behaviors, and decisions. Utilizes chain of command appropriately to resolve issues. Participates in hospital quality activities as required. Participates in department quality activities as required. The employee will adhere to organizational/-departmental customer service standards. Utilizes Policies & Procedures as necessary and can access via Intranet. Participates in yearly legal compliance training. Explains departmental chain of command. Explains purpose of Legal Compliance Hotline and utilizes if indicated. Participates in departmental Legal Compliance plan. Attended Orientation/Re-Orientation. Completed Annual Department Competencies. Promotes positive public relations for the department and the hospital. Presents self in a professional manner; assists in community service programs as requested. Demonstrates communication skills necessary to interact with persons of varying age and/or cultures. Answers telephone as assigned, route calls or takes messages appropriately. Supports the Mission and Philosophy of the hospital and the Department. Demonstrates an understanding and application of these policies. Respects confidentiality. Ability to speak additional languages preferred. Must have strong written and verbal skills. Must have basic computer knowledge. Job Requirements: Education/Skills Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing preferred. Experience 1 year of experience in the related nursing specialty preferred. Licenses, Registrations, or Certifications BLS required. RN License in state of employment required. ACLS required. PALS required. Verbal CPI hire required. Work Schedule: 4 Days - 10 Hours Work Type: Full Time