Nurse Manager II, Oncology/Infusion

Kaiser Permanente; Vacaville (CA); On-site; USD 239,000 - 276,000; Full time

Job summary

Kaiser Permanente in Vacaville is seeking a Nursing Leader to oversee ambulatory operations and patient care delivery, implementing best practice models and ensuring compliance with nursing standards.

You will collaborate with physicians and health care teams, supervise staff, manage resources and budgets, and drive performance improvements within the service line.

The role requires RN license in California, strong leadership, and experience in ambulatory care and emergency readiness.

Qualifications

• Minimum four (4) years of leadership experience in healthcare or a related field.
• Bachelor's degree in business, nursing, health care, or a directly related field is required or equivalent.
• Registered Nurse License (California) required at hire.

Responsibilities

• Lead ambulatory operations and supervise staff to ensure high-quality patient care.
• Ensure adherence to nursing standards, safety regulations, and compliance.
• Collaborate with physicians and health care teams to optimize patient outcomes.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Decision Making

Problem Solving

Teamwork

Strategic Thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, nursing, health care, or directly related field

Bachelor's degree in Nursing (BSN)

Job description

Job Summary

In addition to the responsibilities below, this position is also responsible for leading the implementation of best practice models; leading the implementation of patient care delivery systems and practice standards across the service line; delegating tasks related to the investigation and resolution of patient/family/member concerns regarding patient care and services; facilitating collaboration with physicians, outside healthcare providers, and other health care team members to achieve optimal and safe patient care across the continuum; proactively monitoring resource needs in several clinical areas to ensure appropriate assignment and utilization; managing the use and maintenance of equipment, supplies and medications; ensuring 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.

Job Summary In addition to the responsibilities below, this position is also responsible for leading the implementation of best practice models; leading the implementation of patient care delivery systems and practice standards across the service line; delegating tasks related to the investigation and resolution of patient/family/member concerns regarding patient care and services; facilitating collaboration with physicians, outside healthcare providers, and other health care team members to achieve optimal and safe patient care across the continuum; proactively monitoring resource needs in several clinical areas to ensure appropriate assignment and utilization; managing the use and maintenance of equipment, supplies and medications; ensuring 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.

Note: Depending on assignment, this position may require technical or supervisory experience in one or more specialty areas, including but not limited to Operating Room/Procedure Suite, Emergency Services, Oncology, etc.

Essential Responsibilities

• Creates and advocates for developmental opportunities for others; builds collaborative, cross-functional relationships. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; works with leaders and employees to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to drive performance improvement. Pursues professional growth; hires, trains, and develops talent for growth opportunities; strategically evaluates talent for succession planning; sets performance management guidelines and expectations across teams / units. Oversees implementation, adapts, and stays up to date with organizational change, challenges, feedback, best practices, processes, and industry trends; shares best practices within and across teams. Fosters open dialogue amongst team members, engages, motivates, and promotes collaboration within and across teams; motivates teams to meet business objectives. Delegates tasks and decisions as appropriate; provides appropriate support, guidance and scope; encourages development and consideration of options in decision making; fosters access to stakeholders.
• Manages designated units or teams 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; partners with key stakeholders and business leaders to ensure products and/or services meet requirements and expectations while aligning with departmental strategies. Aligns team efforts; builds accountability for and measuring progress in achieving results; assumes responsibility for decision making; fosters direct reports to resolve escalated issues as appropriate. Communicates goals and objectives; incorporates resources, costs, and forecasts into team and unit plans; ensures matrixed resources are fulfilling service or performance requirements across reporting lines. Removes obstacles that impact performance; identifies and addresses improvement opportunities; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; influences teams and units to operate in alignment with operational and business objectives.
• Manages ambulatory operations to support patient care by: providing additional oversight/span of control for, negotiating, and driving timelines for action item implementation and monitoring compliance to financial commitments; identifying, requesting, and implementing workflows and strategies to achieve performance targets and aligning with market strategies; developing and guiding short- and long-term operational initiatives and managing program, services, and/or systems; assuming accountability for human resource management related to performance measurement and employee management; leading continuous 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 contributing to the development, monitoring and control of departmental payroll and non-payroll budget and other aspects of financial management and cost control/reduction.
• Ensures standardized care delivery by: developing strategic partnerships with physicians and subject matter experts and service area leaders and overseeing highly complex workstreams with large program impact; leading the development and implementation of plans, policies, and processes for data gathering, using relevant data gathered, and analysis while ensuring guideline and regulation alignment; aligning patient care management solutions across departments and/or service lines; monitoring and/or managing resources as needed in clinical areas to ensure appropriate assignment and utilization; leading multidisciplinary ambulatory team(s) and holding team(s) accountable for performance; assisting the design of emergency preparedness programs and ensuring the departments emergency preparedness and recovery plans are current and that managers and staff are trained and know what is expected during and after an emergency; and leading project teams, initiatives and monitoring implementation, equitable distribution of resources, and delivery on objectives.
• Manages improvements to patient-centered operations and technology processes by: leading and implementing long-term strategic projects designed to remediate issues and improve quality, service, affordability, and/or operating efficiency; developing and managing a structured approach for identifying root causes and implementing solutions to improve the performance of operations system processes in response to barriers and/or issues; and ensuring performance metrics used to monitor the success of strategic improvement projects are tied to strategic organizational initiatives.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• 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
• Business Process Improvement
• Calendar Management
• Change Management
• Compliance Management
• Confidentiality
• Conflict Resolution
• Financial Acumen
• Health Care Compliance
• Health Care Quality Standards
• Human Resources Systems
• Information Systems
• Legal And Regulatory Requirements
• Maintain Files and Records
• Microsoft Office
• Outcome Driven Innovation
• Stakeholder Management
• Talent Management
• Training
• Workforce Planning

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum four (4) years of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.
• Minimum three (3) years of customer or member/patient service experience.
• Bachelors degree in a business, nursing, health care, or directly related field AND minimum five (5) years of experience in business operations, clinical health care, or a directly related field OR Minimum (8) years of experience in business operations, clinical health care, or a directly related field.
• Registered Nurse License (California) required at hire
• Basic Life Support required at hire

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing (BSN).
• Three (3) years of project/program management and/or implementation-related experience.

Primary Location

California,Vacaville,Vacaville Medical Offices B

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-NCAL-09|NUE|Non Union Employee

Job Level

Manager with Direct Reports

Department

Vacaville Hospital - Medical Office Administration - 0206

Pay Range

$239000 - $276100 / 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

No

Work Setting

Onsite

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

Equal Opportunity

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.