Nurse Manager I, Hospital

Kaiser Permanente; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Kaiser Permanente in Santa Clara seeks a senior nursing leader to oversee care delivery, implement best-practice models, and collaborate with physicians and teams to ensure safe, high-quality patient care across locations.

The role focuses on staff development, resource alignment, and continuous improvement within a 24/7 hospital environment, with emphasis on regulatory compliance and cost-efficient operations.

Qualifications

• Minimum three (3) years of experience in patient care delivery.
• BSN and 3+ years in business operations, clinical health care, or related field.
• Minimum two (2) years of experience in a leadership role.

Responsibilities

• Provides developmental opportunities, builds collaborative relationships, and coaches staff to drive performance.
• Translates business plans into tactical actions and ensures policies are followed.
• Oversees hospital administrative functions to support patient care and maintain regulatory compliance.
• Manages 24/7 care delivery operations and ensures alignment with cost, quality, and utilization standards.
• Leads cross-functional teams, implements strategic improvement projects, and monitors outcomes.
• Ensures safe, high-quality, standardized care and compliance with Nursing Practice Act and regulations.

Skills

Ambiguity/Uncertainty Management

Attention to Detail

Communication

Critical Thinking

Leadership

Decision Making

Team Building

Problem Solving

Strategic Thinking

Teamwork

Education

BSN Required

RN License (California)

Tools

Microsoft Office

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 several 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, 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.

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 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 hospital administrative functions to support patient care by: driving implementation of action items and supporting compliance with timelines and financial commitments; reviewing ad hoc reporting to meet specific client needs related to workflow and performance targets; overseeing data collection, reviewing data, and translating reports into short-term operational initiatives; managing cross-functional activities including workplace and patient safety, human resources (e.g., recruitment, selection, promoting active recruitment, performance feedback), labor relations, training and development, and quality/risk management issues; leading survey 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.
• Manages care delivery operations and programs within a twenty-four-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week operational environment by: managing complex work streams and implementing strategic initiatives with significant program impact; utilizing data and analysis to ensure strategic alignment while developing and implementing plans; proactively monitoring daily operational activities involving direct and/or indirect patient care management; monitoring resources in hospital areas to ensure appropriate assignment and utilization; managing multidisciplinary hospital team(s) and holding team(s) accountable for performance; implementing emergency preparedness programs; ensuring others are up-to-date with the teams emergency preparedness plan, revising recovery plans as needed, ensuring and confirming staff are trained and understand expectations for during and after an emergency; leading project teams and/or initiatives, and monitoring implementation and delivery on objectives; and managing the delivery of nursing services and patient care within a twenty-four-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week operational environment in alignment with cost, quality, and clinical and utilization standards.
• Manages improvements to operations and technology processes by: managing the work of cross-functional teams including overseeing the development of goals and priorities, defining issues, and in some cases leading and implementing 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 address quality and safety issues; contributing to the development of and implementing strategic plans with the goal of achieving integrated services across the continuum of care; and ensuring performance metrics used to monitor the success of strategic improvement projects are tied to strategic department initiatives.
• Ensures safe, quality, and standardized care delivery within a twenty-four-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week operational environment by: monitoring and guiding the continuous improvement of the quality and safety of clinical practices, services, and operations for patients and staff; holding staff and direct reports accountable for maintaining compliance with legal and regulatory requirements (e.g., Nursing Practice Act, The Joint Commission [TJC], federal, state, and local requirements) updated by governmental and regulatory agencies; and implementing and supporting the design of systems, processes, and methods to evaluate and improve patient care within assigned department and across the continuum of care.

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
• Nursing Principles
• Patient Safety
• Confidentiality
• Employee Training
• Legal And Regulatory Requirements
• Maintain Files and Records
• Microsoft Office
• Stakeholder Management

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum three (3) years of experience in patient care delivery.
• 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.

Basic Life Support required at hire

• Basic Life Support required at hire

Registered Nurse License (California) required at hire

• Registered Nurse License (California) required at hire

Preferred Qualifications

• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certification from the American Heart Association.
• Certification from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) in related practice area.