Voca Healthcare is seeking a travel nurse RN Perioperative for a travel nursing job in Brooklyn, New York.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Perioperative
- Discipline: RN
- Start Date: 01/11/2027
- Duration: 13 weeks
- 40 hours per week
- Shift: 8 hours, days
- Employment Type: Travel
System Nursing Director – Perioperative Services
Job Summary: Provides strategic and operational leadership for system-wide Perioperative Services, including the Operating Room (OR), PACU, Endoscopy, and Pre-Surgical Testing (PST). Responsible for optimizing surgical operations, driving quality and patient safety initiatives, managing budgets, ensuring regulatory compliance, and leading multi-site perioperative teams.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead strategic planning and operational oversight for OR, PACU, Endoscopy, and PST services across the health system.
- Drive OR optimization initiatives, including block scheduling, utilization management, turnover reduction, and throughput improvement.
- Monitor key performance metrics such as first-case on-time starts, turnover times, cancellations, PACU LOS, and procedural volume.
- Partner with surgeons, anesthesia providers, and executive leadership to improve access, efficiency, and patient outcomes.
- Oversee staffing plans, productivity, recruitment, onboarding, retention, and competency validation for perioperative staff.
- Develop and manage operating and capital budgets, including labor, supplies, equipment, and vendor contracts.
- Ensure compliance with Joint Commission, CMS, NYSDOH, and other regulatory standards.
- Lead patient safety and quality initiatives, including SSI prevention, RCA investigations, and corrective action plans.
- Chair perioperative leadership committees and serve as the escalation point for complex clinical and operational issues.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, shared governance, and continuous improvement.
Required Qualifications:
- BSN and Master's degree in Nursing, Healthcare Administration, Business Administration, or related field.
- Current RN license in New York State (or eligibility).
- BLS certification.
- Minimum 10 years of progressive nursing leadership experience, including oversight of multiple departments, facilities, or service lines.
- Strong expertise in operational management, financial analysis, staffing strategy, and performance improvement.
- Experience interpreting operational and financial data to improve efficiency and outcomes.
- Excellent communication, physician relations, negotiation, and leadership skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Leadership or clinical experience in OR, PACU, Endoscopy, Ambulatory Surgery, or other perioperative settings.
- System-level or multi-site leadership experience.
- Expertise in OR block scheduling and perioperative operations.
Preferred Certifications:
Ideal Candidate:
Senior perioperative leader with extensive experience driving OR efficiency, managing large-scale surgical operations, improving quality outcomes, and collaborating with physicians and executive leadership across multiple facilities.
System Nursing Director – Perioperative Services: Lead strategic planning and operational oversight for OR, PACU, Endoscopy, and PST services across the health system.
About Voca Healthcare
As a Voca Traveler, you will gain new clinical skills, visit amazing places and meet awesome healthcare professionals.
As a travel health professional, your experience and dedication to patient care is in high demand throughout the United States. Whether you are a veteran traveler looking for your next opportunity, or you are looking to travel for the first time, Voca is here to support you. Voca’s experienced and dedicated travel team works in concert with you every step of the way. Our long-standing partnerships with some of the most respected and recognized healthcare organizations in the country allow us to identify career opportunities to help you increase your knowledge and experience while working with some of the best physicians and healthcare professionals in the world. At Voca, we strongly believe a better career results in a happier you. We are here to help you find a position that is professionally and personally rewarding.
Benefits
- Holiday Pay
- 401k retirement plan
- Medical benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- Guaranteed Hours