Manager, Perioperative Services

Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley; Dublin (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley is seeking a Manager of Perioperative Services to lead day-to-day operations across Operating Room, PACU, and recovery areas. You will oversee staffing, case readiness, and workflow improvements to ensure safe, efficient, patient-centered care.

The role reports to the Senior Director of Procedural Nursing and Clinical Operations and requires a Bachelor’s in nursing with CA RN licensure and BLS.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in nursing is required.
• Minimum of five (5) years of clinical perioperative experience.
• Minimum of two (2) years of leadership experience preferred.
• BLS and CA RN license required.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage day-to-day perioperative operations, staffing, case readiness, and room flow.
• Supervise nurse managers, charge nurses, and staff; support recruitment and onboarding.
• Monitor quality, safety, regulatory readiness, and improve clinical practices.

Skills

Perioperative leadership

Staff management

Quality improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree in nursing

Master’s degree preferred

Job description

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Day - 08 Hour (United States of America)

This is a Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley job.

A Brief Overview

The Manager of Perioperative Services is responsible for day-to-day leadership and operational management of perioperative nursing and clinical operations within the Interventional and Procedural Services Platform. Scope includes Operating Room operations and associated pre/post, PACU, and procedural recovery functions as assigned.

Reporting to the Senior Director of Procedural Nursing and Clinical Operations, the Manager leads assistant nurse managers and staff to deliver safe, efficient, reliable, patient-centered surgical and procedural care. The role is accountable for staffing, scheduling, case readiness, room flow, clinical practice standards, quality and safety follow-up, employee engagement, regulatory readiness, and collaboration with surgeons, anesthesia, SPD, supply chain, and procedural scheduling.

Locations

Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley

What You Will Do

Daily Operations and Case Readiness

• Manage daily perioperative operations, staffing assignments, case readiness, add-on coordination, room flow, turnover performance, and recovery capacity coordination.
• Lead or participate in daily procedural huddles and ensure timely escalation of staffing gaps, instrument issues, equipment constraints, vendor needs, and recovery bottlenecks.
• Ensure reliable pre-procedure readiness, H&P/consent/lab/medication readiness processes, surgical safety checklist completion, and handoff standard work.

Team Leadership and Workforce Management

• Supervise assistant nurse managers, charge nurses, and team members as assigned.
• Support recruitment, onboarding, competency completion, scheduling, performance feedback, corrective action, retention, and staff engagement.
• Promote a culture of accountability, psychological safety, service excellence, and teamwork.

Quality, Safety, and Regulatory Compliance

• Monitor quality and safety events, near misses, retained item risks, specimen labeling defects, infection prevention issues, and procedural verification reliability.
• Partner with Quality, Infection Prevention, SPD, Nursing Professional Development, and the Senior Director to implement corrective actions and sustain regulatory readiness.
• Ensure staff adherence to policies, clinical standards, documentation expectations, C-I-CARE, and applicable regulatory requirements.

Operational Improvement and Resource Stewardship

• Improve first-case on-time starts, turnover time, cancellation avoidance, case duration accuracy, preference card accuracy, and staffing productivity.
• Partner with SPD and supply chain to strengthen instrument readiness, case cart completeness, preference card accuracy, implant/device processes, and vendor tray reliability.
• Manage budgeted expenditures, supplies, staffing resources, overtime, call utilization, and productivity within established expectations.

Key Performance Metrics

• First-case on-time starts, turnover time, case duration accuracy, cancellation rate, room utilization, add-on performance, and recovery throughput.
• Staffing productivity, overtime, call utilization, vacancy, turnover, engagement, competency completion, and certification.
• Surgical safety checklist reliability, retained item events, specimen labeling defects, infection prevention indicators, safety event closure, and regulatory readiness.
• Preference card accuracy, tray accuracy, case cart completeness, instrument availability, and equipment readiness.

Employee must perform all duties and responsibilities in accordance with the C-I-CARE Standards of the Hospital. C-I-CARE is the foundation of Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley’s patient experience and represents a framework for patient-centered interactions.

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in nursing required. Master’s degree in nursing, healthcare administration, or related field preferred

Experience Qualifications

• Minimum of five (5) years of clinical experience in perioperative, PACU, procedural, critical care, or related acute care settings required
• Minimum of two (2) years of formal or informal leadership experience preferred
• Experience with OR flow, staffing, regulatory readiness, quality improvement, and physician/anesthesia collaboration preferred

Licenses and Certifications

• BLS - Basic Life Support required .
• CA Registered Nurse - Valid license as a Registered Nurse issued by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN). Any combination of education and experience that would likely provide the required knowledge, skills and abilities as well as possession of any required licenses or certifications is qualifying.

These Principles Apply To ALL Employees

SHC Commitment to Providing an Exceptional Patient & Family Experience

Stanford Health Care sets a high standard for delivering value and an exceptional experience for our patients and families. Candidates for employment and existing employees must adopt and execute C-I-CARE standards for all of patients, families and towards each other. C-I-CARE is the foundation of Stanford’s patient-experience and represents a framework for patient-centered interactions. Simply put, we do what it takes to enable and empower patients and families to focus on health, healing and recovery.

You will do this by executing against our three experience pillars, from the patient and family’s perspective:

• Know Me: Anticipate my needs and status to deliver effective care
• Show Me the Way: Guide and prompt my actions to arrive at better outcomes and better health
• Coordinate for Me: Own the complexity of my care through coordination

Equal Opportunity Employer Stanford Health Care (SHC) strongly values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity and non-discrimination in all of its policies and practices, including the area of employment. Accordingly, SHC does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity and/or expression, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or disability, or the perception of any of the above. People of all genders, members of all racial and ethnic groups, people with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply. Qualified applicants with criminal convictions will be considered after an individualized assessment of the conviction and the job requirements.

Base Pay Scale: Generally starting at $87.31 - $116.42 per hour

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, specialty and training. This pay scale is not a promise of a particular wage.