Manager Nursing

CommonSpirit Health; Little Rock (AR); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

CommonSpirit Health seeks a Nursing Manager to lead and mentor the nursing team, overseeing clinical operations and advocating for patients and staff. The role emphasizes accountability, growth, and achieving unit goals with strong communication across teams.

The position prioritizes patient-centered care, staff development, and operational excellence within CHI St. Vincent and the broader CommonSpirit network in Arkansas. You will drive performance and foster collaboration to improve outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Nursing required.
• Minimum 5 years of clinical experience.
• RN license in Arkansas (AR) upon hire.
• Basic Life Support / CPR certification upon hire.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates leadership to guide groups to meet goals and align with Core Values.
• Oversees staffing, performance management, and quality improvement initiatives.
• Manages unit operations, budget, and resources to ensure patient care excellence.
• Coordinates workload to ensure safe, effective, and timely care delivery.
• Maintains strong communication with physicians, staff, and external partners.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Staff mentoring

Education

Bachelor of Nursing

Master of Nursing

RN license (AR)

Job description

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Nursing Manager, you will be a dynamic leader, guiding and empowering our nursing team to deliver exceptional, patient-centered care through continuous growth and operational excellence. Every day, you will lead and mentor Registered Nurses, oversee clinical operations, and advocate for patient and team needs, driving professional development and achieving unit goals. To be successful in this role, you will embody accountability and confidence with superior communication skills for all interactions. You'll skillfully navigate challenges, ensuring individual performance and overall unit success.

• Mission and Core Values – Demonstrates the ability to progressively guide and lead groups of people to meet goals and exceed customer requirements. Role models leadership behavior, collaborative team relationships and St. Vincent Health System/CHI Core Values.
• Performance Management (Customer Satisfaction/Quality) - Creates team based quality improvement plans, including definition of team goals, utilizing performance measures and appropriate analysis tools, changing and improving performance through feedback, coaching and teaching. Leads the patient care unit in care delivery based on research findings and evidence-based practice.
• Fiscal Performance - Utilizes an indicator system to monitor volume trends incorporating financial and customer satisfaction measures. Demonstrates an ability to plan, organize and control department resources and communicate fiscal expectations to staff.
• Workload Coordination (Teamwork) - Coordinates the allocation of staff on a day to day basis to ensure the delivery of appropriate service by competent staff as defined by experience, education and skill. Provides for and encourages and environment of self-development and continued learning.
• Management and Communications – Demonstrates the ability and dedication to address issues and activities that encompass the larger aspect operations of the division including the ability to communicate with other members of the St. Vincent Health System/CHI, physicians, staff and external sources/vendors. Maintains an effective channel for productive and interactive communication.

Job Requirements

Required

• Bachelors Of Nursing and Minimum of 5 years clinical experience in healthcare organization, upon hire and
• Registered Nurse: AR, upon hire and
• Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire

Preferred

• Masters Of Nursing and 3-5 years of clinical management experience , upon hire
• Behavioral health experience strongly preferred

Where You'll Work

CHI St. Vincent, a regional health network serving Arkansas, is part of CommonSpirit Health. We have served Arkansas since 1888 with a history of many firsts. Together with more than 4500 coworkers, 1000 medical staff and 500 volunteers we consistently receive praise for care advancements. CommonSpirit Health was formed by the alignment of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health in 2019. With our combined resources CommonSpirit is committed to building healthy communities advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable and innovating how and where healing can happen both inside our hospitals and out in the community. CHI St. Vincent provides you with the same level of care you provide to others. We care about our team member well-being and offer benefits that complement and support your work/life balance.