Nurse Manager I

Kaiser Permanente Northwest; Oregon (WI); On-site; USD 157,000 - 182,000; Full time

Job summary

Kaiser Permanente Northwest is seeking a Nursing leader for Mt. Talbert Medical Offices in Oregon.

The role focuses on managing ambulatory operations, implementing best practice care delivery models, supervising clinical staff, and ensuring compliance with nursing standards and regulatory requirements. The position requires a BSN, an RN license in Oregon (or equivalent), and leadership experience in a clinical setting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing (BSN) and a minimum of 3 years of experience in business operations, clinical health care, or a related field.
• Minimum 2 years in a leadership role with or without direct reports.
• Minimum 2 years of customer or member/patient service experience.

Responsibilities

• Oversee ambulatory operations to support patient care and budget management.
• Drive implementation of action items and ensure timelines and financial commitments.
• Develop and manage departments budget, expenditures, and payroll with leadership input.
• Ensure standardized care delivery and partner with physicians and experts to drive program impact.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Customer service

Problem solving

Attention to detail

Education

BSN degree

RN License (Oregon/WA)

BLS Certification

Job description

Job Summary

In addition to the responsibilities below, this position is also responsible for implementing best practice models; implementing patient care delivery systems and practice standards in one or more locations; investigating and resolving patient/family/member concerns regarding patient care and services; collaborating with physicians, outside healthcare providers, and other health care team members to achieve optimal and safe patient care across the continuum; monitoring resource needs in assigned clinical areas to ensure appropriate assignment and utilization; monitoring the use and maintenance of equipment, supplies and medications; fostering 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 in the unit; delegating tasks and duties that are aligned to scope of practice; and performing clinical duties as required. Collaborates with Nursing Clinical Practice to ensure assistants and staff provide the highest quality of care and are in compliance with the Nursing Practice Act, The Joint Commission, federal, state, and local requirements.

• Provides developmental opportunities for others; builds collaborative, cross-functional relationships. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; works closely with employees to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to drive performance improvement. Pursues professional growth; develops and provides training and development to talent for growth opportunities; supports execution of performance management guidelines and expectations. Leads, adapts, implements, and stays up to date with organizational change, challenges, feedback, best practices, processes, and industry trends. Fosters open dialogue amongst team members, engages, motivates, and promotes collaboration within and across teams. Delegates tasks and decisions as appropriate; provides appropriate support, guidance, and scope; encourages development and consideration of options in decision making.
• Manages designated work unit or team by translating business plans into tactical action items; oversees the completion of work assignments and identifies opportunities for improvement; ensures all policies and procedures are followed. Aligns team efforts; builds accountability for and measuring progress in achieving results; determines and ensures processes and methodologies are implemented; resolves escalated issues as appropriate; sets standards and measures progress. Fosters the development of work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; obtains and distributes resources. Removes obstacles that impact performance; identifies and addresses improvement opportunities; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; influences teams to execute in alignment with operational objectives.
• Manages ambulatory operations to support patient care by: driving implementation of action items and supporting compliance with timelines and financial commitments; using and providing feedback on standard reports and identifying needed ad hoc reporting to meet specific client needs related to workflow and performance targets; providing feedback as needed on data collection, reviewing data, and translating reports into short-term operational initiatives; managing human resources activities related to recruitment, creating and ensuring the use of standardized procedures and processes for employee management; designing survey and compliance readiness activities, including mock rounds and mitigating issues, to maintain compliance and regulatory standards and developing procedures for preparing audit documentation, information, and reports;and assisting in the development and management of their departments budget, expenditures, and payroll with input from a higher-level leader.
• Ensures standardized care delivery by: developing strategic partnerships with physicians and subject matter experts and managing complex work streams and implementing strategic initiatives with significant program impact; using data and analysis to ensure strategic alignment while developing and implementing plans; proactively monitoring and managing daily operational activities involving patient care management; managing resources in clinical areas to ensure appropriate assignment and utilization; managing multidisciplinary ambulatory team(s); implementing 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 leading project teams, initiatives and monitoring implementation and delivery on objectives.
• Manages improvements to patient-centered operations and technology processes by: defining issues and overseeing the development of goals and priorities for strategic projects designed to remediate issues and improve quality, service, affordability, and/or operating efficiency; applying a structured approach for identifying root causes and implementing solutions to improve the performance of operations system processes; and ensuring performance metrics used to monitor the success of strategic improvement projects are tied to strategic department initiatives.

Essential Responsibilities

• Provides developmental opportunities for others; builds collaborative, cross-functional relationships. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; works closely with employees to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to drive performance improvement. Pursues professional growth; develops and provides training and development to talent for growth opportunities; supports execution of performance management guidelines and expectations. Leads, adapts, implements, and stays up to date with organizational change, challenges, feedback, best practices, processes, and industry trends. Fosters open dialogue amongst team members, engages, motivates, and promotes collaboration within and across teams. Delegates tasks and decisions as appropriate; provides appropriate support, guidance, and scope; encourages development and consideration of options in decision making.
• Manages designated work unit or team by translating business plans into tactical action items; oversees the completion of work assignments and identifies opportunities for improvement; ensures all policies and procedures are followed. Aligns team efforts; builds accountability for and measuring progress in achieving results; determines and ensures processes and methodologies are implemented; resolves escalated issues as appropriate; sets standards and measures progress. Fosters the development of work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; obtains and distributed resources. Removes obstacles that impact performance; identifies and addresses improvement opportunities; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; influences teams to execute in alignment with operational objectives.
• Manages ambulatory operations to support patient care by: driving implementation of action items and supporting compliance with timelines and financial commitments; using and providing feedback on standard reports and identifying needed ad hoc reporting to meet specific client needs related to workflow and performance targets; providing feedback as needed on data collection, reviewing data, and translating reports into short-term operational initiatives; managing human resources activities related to recruitment, creating and ensuring the use of standardized procedures and processes for employee management; designing survey and compliance readiness activities, including mock rounds and mitigating issues, to maintain compliance and regulatory standards and developing procedures for preparing audit documentation, information, and reports;and assisting in the development and management of their departments budget, expenditures, and payroll with input from a higher-level leader.
• Ensures standardized care delivery by: developing strategic partnerships with physicians and subject matter experts and managing complex work streams and implementing strategic initiatives with significant program impact; using data and analysis to ensure strategic alignment while developing and implementing plans; proactively monitoring and managing daily operational activities involving patient care management; managing resources in clinical areas to ensure appropriate assignment and utilization; managing multidisciplinary ambulatory team(s); implementing 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 leading project teams, initiatives and monitoring implementation and delivery on objectives.
• Manages improvements to patient-centered operations and technology processes by: defining issues and overseeing the development of goals and priorities for strategic projects designed to remediate issues and improve quality, service, affordability, and/or operating efficiency; applying a structured approach for identifying root causes and implementing solutions to improve the performance of operations system processes; and ensuring performance metrics used to monitor the success of strategic improvement projects are tied to strategic department initiatives.

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)

• Emergency Preparedness
• Evidence-Based Medicine Principles
• Licensure Principles
• Nursing Principles
• Patient Safety
• Change Management
• Confidentiality
• Conflict Resolution
• Human Resources Systems
• Legal And Regulatory Requirements
• Microsoft Office
• Outcome Driven Innovation
• Stakeholder Management
• Training

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Nursing (BSN) AND minimum three (3) years of experience in business operations, clinical health care, or a directly related field.
• Minimum two (2) years of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.
• Minimum two (2) years of customer or member/patient service experience.
• Basic Life Support required at hire
• This job requires credentials from multiple states. Credentials from the primary work state are required at hire. Additional Credentials from the secondary work state(s) are required post hire.
• Registered Nurse License (Washington) within 6 months of hire OR Compact License: Registered Nurse within 6 months of hire
• Registered Nurse License (Oregon) within 6 months of hire

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Nursing (MSN) OR Master's degree in a business, nursing, health care, or directly related field and Bachelor's degree in Nursing (BSN).
• Two (2) years of project/program management and/or implementation-related experience.

Primary Location: Oregon,Clackamas,Mt. Talbert Medical Offices

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Shift: Day

Workdays: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri

Working Hours Start: 08:00 AM

Working Hours End: 05:00 PM

Job Schedule: Full-time

Job Type: Standard

Worker Location: Onsite

Employee Status: Regular

Employee Group/Union Affiliation: NUE-NW-01|NUE|Non Union Employee

Job Level: Manager with Direct Reports

Department: Mt. Talbert Medical Offices - Medical Office Administration - 1008

Pay Range: $157000 - $181500 / year

Kaiser Permanente strives to offer a market competitive total rewards package and is committed to pay equity and transparency. The posted pay range is based on possible base salaries for the role and does not reflect the full value of our total rewards package. Actual base pay determined at offer will be based on labor market data, internal alignment, and a candidate's years of relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills, and geographic location.

Travel: Yes, 25 % of the Time

Work Setting: Onsite

Worker location must align with Kaiser Permanente's Authorized States policy.

Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.