Assistant Nurse Manager, Care at Home

Kaiser Permanente; Vallejo (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

KAISER in Vallejo, California, seeks an Assistant Nurse Manager, Care at Home, to lead care delivery operations and ensure safe, high-quality patient care at home. You will supervise teams, coordinate resources, and oversee program budgets and payroll while fostering collaboration with physicians and external providers.

The role requires a BSN, California RN license, and at least two years in health care operations with leadership experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing (BSN) required.
• Minimum two years in business operations, clinical health care, or related field.
• Minimum one year in a leadership role with/without direct reports.
• Minimum one year of customer or member/patient service experience.
• Basic Life Support required at hire
• Registered Nurse License (California) required at hire

Responsibilities

• Recommends developmental opportunities for others; mentors and coaches to drive performance improvement.
• Supervises and coordinates daily activities of a team; ensures policies and procedures are followed.
• Oversees care at home operations; manages budget, payroll, and compliance readiness.
• Ensures standardized care delivery; coordinates resources and ensures smooth transitions in care.
• Supervises improvements to operations and technology processes; implements performance metrics.

Skills

Ambiguity management

Attention to detail

Business knowledge

Communication

Constructive feedback

Critical thinking

Cross-group collaboration

Decision making

Dependability

Diversity, equity, and inclusion

Drives results

Facilitation skills

Health care industry

Influencing others

Integrity

Leadership

Learning agility

Organizational savvy

Problem solving

Short- and long-term learning and/or 7

Strategic thinking

Team building

Teamwork

Topic-specific communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Nursing (BSN)

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Job Summary:

In addition to the responsibilities below, this position is also responsible for assisting the implementation of best practice models; assisting the implementation of patient care delivery systems and practice standards in area of responsibility; supporting investigations into patient/family/member concerns regarding patient care and services; supporting collaboration with physicians, outside healthcare providers, and other health care team members to achieve optimal and safe patient care at home; allocating resources in assigned clinical areas to ensure appropriate assignment and utilization; providing oversight of the use and maintenance of equipment, supplies and medications; supporting the creation of a safe environment for patients and employees; maintaining clinical expertise of self and/or team, providing clinical supervision, competency and licensing necessary to fulfill job responsibilities and to direct the provision of care at home; delegating tasks and duties that are aligned to scope of practice; and performing clinical duties as required.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Recommends developmental opportunities for others; builds collaborative, cross-functional relationships. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; provides team members with feedback; and mentors and coaches to drive performance improvement. Pursues professional growth; provides training and development to talent for growth opportunities; supports execution of performance management guidelines and expectations. Implements, adapts, and stays up to date with organizational change, challenges, feedback, best practices and processes. Fosters open dialogue, supports, mentors, engages, and motivates team members on collaboration. Delegates tasks and decisions as appropriate; provides appropriate support, guidance and scope.

• Supervises and coordinates daily activities of designated work team or unit by monitoring the execution and completion of tactical action items and work assignments; ensures all policies and procedures are followed. Aligns team efforts and standards, and measures progress in achieving results; determines and carries out processes and methodologies; resolves escalated issues as appropriate. Develops work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; coordinates, obtains and distributes resources. Removes obstacles that impact performance; identifies and recommends improvement opportunities; influences teams to execute in alignment with operational objectives.

• Supervises continuum of care / care at home operations to support patient care by: facilitating team, meetings and/or management decisions and identifying action items, keeping into consideration compliance timelines and financial commitments; using and providing feedback on standard utilization and productivity reports to achieve performance targets; interpreting data and taking action; supervising human resources including recruitment and selection and promoting active recruitment, and implementing the orientation and employee management; conducting survey and compliance readiness activities, including mock rounds and mitigating issues, to maintain compliance and regulatory standards and delivering requested audit documentation, information, and reports; and assuming accountability for their teams program budget, expenditures and payroll.

• Ensures standardized care delivery by: supporting large and/or complex work streams with significant program impact; supervising data collection and using data to inform the development and implementation of plans; coordinating and monitoring daily operational activities involving patient care management, ensuring consistency and seamless transitions across the continuum of care; coordinating resources in clinical areas to ensure appropriate assignment and utilization; supervising multidisciplinary continuum of care / care at home team(s); providing feedback for identifying opportunities for contracting efforts with local agency and outside provider contract/vendor medical services; helping implement emergency preparedness programs and ensuring the teams emergency preparedness and recovery plans are current and that staff are trained and know what is expected during and after an emergency; and coaching the team and monitoring implementation and delivery on objectives.

• Supervises improvements to operations and technology processes by: planning the work of teams on strategic projects designed to remediate issues and improve quality, service, affordability, and/or operating efficiency; responding to escalations to improve the performance of operations system processes; and implementing performance metrics to track the success of strategic improvement projects.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Core)

• Ambiguity/Uncertainty Management

• Attention to Detail

• Business Knowledge

• Communication

• Constructive Feedback

• Critical Thinking

• Cross-Group Collaboration

• Decision Making

• Dependability

• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Support

• Drives Results

• Facilitation Skills

• Health Care Industry

• Influencing Others

• Integrity

• Leadership

• Learning Agility

• Organizational Savvy

• Problem Solving

• Short- and Long-term Learning & Recall

• Strategic Thinking

• Team Building

• Teamwork

• Topic-Specific Communication

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Functional)

• Evidence-Based Medicine Principles

• Evidence-Based Practices

• Compliance Management

• Confidentiality

• Conflict Resolution

• Health Care Quality Standards

• Information Systems

• Legal And Regulatory Requirements

• Member Service

• Microsoft Office

• Stakeholder Management

  Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Nursing (BSN) AND minimum two (2) years of experience in business operations, clinical health care, or a directly related field.

• Minimum one (1) year of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.

• Minimum one (1) year of customer or member/patient service experience.

• Basic Life Support required at hire

• Registered Nurse License (California) required at hire

Preferred Qualifications:

• One (1) year of project/program management and/or implementation-related experience.

• One (1) year of experience in process improvement.

COMPANY: KAISER

TITLE: Assistant Nurse Manager, Care at Home

LOCATION: Vallejo, California

REQNUMBER: 1448478

External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, state and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran, or disability status.