| Location | Billings, Montana |
Nurse Manager Surgical Services Operating Room
SURGICAL SERVICES (BILLINGS CLINIC HOSPITAL)
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Shift: Day
Employment Status: Full-Time (.75 or greater)
Hours per Pay Period: 1.00 = 80 hours every two weeks (Exempt)
Starting Wage DOE
The Manager of Surgical Services provides nursing leadership for the development, advancement, and delivery of perioperative nursing practice within Surgical Services. This role is responsible for planning, directing, and managing departmental operations and staff to ensure the delivery of high-quality patient care on a 24/7 basis. The Manager ensures compliance with AORN standards, corporate policies, and all applicable regulatory and accrediting requirements, while overseeing operational and fiscal management, resource utilization, supplies, and equipment. The Manager is accountable for the quality of services provided, as well as short- and long-term planning aligned with the organization's strategic goals.
The Manager hires, orients, and supports the professional development of clinical staff through competency assessment, coaching, and performance feedback. This role promotes collaboration and effective communication with physicians, multidisciplinary teams, and key stakeholders to support safe, efficient perioperative care and continuous improvement. The Manager actively participates in departmental growth initiatives, supports the professional practice model through the Surgical Services Executive Committee, and fosters a respectful, customer-focused environment through effective leadership, conflict resolution, and change management.
Essential Job Functions
* Develops and oversees department cost centers to ensure adherence to organizational mission, vision, values, strategic goals, and business strategies. Interprets and supports the mission and philosophy of Billings Clinic. Responsible for promotion of, and adherence to, the elements of Billings Clinic's Code of Business Conduct and corporate compliance program.
* In collaboration with physician leadership and other medical staff, administration, and other health care providers, develop and implement short and long range plans, and leads, develops and revises programs which enhance department services.
* Develops, implements and maintains Plan of Care for the areas of accountability
* Develop and maintains perioperative personnel and compliance with organizational policies and procedures and regulatory and accreditation standard.
* Participates in the development of patient care delivery models and/or care programs, nursing policies and procedures that describe how patient care needs and/or patient populations receiving nursing care are assessed, evaluated and met.
* Participates in the development and implementation of Billings Clinic's plans for providing nursing care to patients. Participates in the implementation of an effective, ongoing program to measure, assess and improve the quality of nursing care. Monitors compliance to the plan.
* Promotes a learning environment that empowers nurses to provide safe, reliable, patient-centered nursing care that is effective, compassionate, and efficient in the surgical setting as applicable.
* Maintains appropriate skill/knowledge of application and patient relevance of commonly used equipment specific to area; pharmacological application; application of laboratory values with disease process or physiological status.
* Leads departments in the overall marketing, program development, and service priorities. Coordinates with nursing leaders in pursing service line/organizational goals and synergy in implementing plans and problem resolution.
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