Nurse Manager

Description

This is a great opportunity to share your work with an organization that cares for the community of Healdsburg, Windsor, Geyserville, and beyond.

The Nurse Manager reports to AMC's CMO and is responsible for leading robust nursing and clinical care management programs including the oversite and administration of Alliance Medical Center’s (AMC’s) nursing services, running the clinical risk management process including AMC’s Infection Control program, developing robust data systems needed to provide information from clinical and administrative practices that will inform strategic projects, and managing the daily operations that result in reaching goals identified in AMC’s Risk Management Plan. The Nurse Manager is responsible for successful clinical program audits and ensures AMC follows local, state, and Federal regulations within scope of nursing expertise. The Nurse Manager designs and implements appropriate process improvement projects to address audit findings and support maintenance of excellence in clinical operations. The Nurse Manager is an active partner with the leadership team and gathers and designs and responds to actionable data to improve service delivery. Most critically, the Nurse Manager works effectively as a clinical leader as an integral team member of the medical operations management team in ensuring day to day operations are successfully meeting organizational goals. 

Some of the duties and responsibilities of the Nurse Manager include:

• Collaborates with CMO and clinical leadership to ensure the risk management training plan is executed and that annual training goals are met.
• Develops clinical policies and procedures used to ensure culturally sensitive and quality patient care, that improves efficiency, patient satisfaction, and cost effectiveness. 
• In collaboration with the leadership team, provides strategic leadership in the transitioning AMC revenue structure from a Perspective Payment System (PPS) into an Alternative Payment Methodologies (APM). Will provide support to staff and patients during transition and evaluate the design and implementation of APM as needed.
• Direct oversight, support, coaching and leadership support of nursing staff in the department including professional development, leadership cultivation, and staff supervision including completion of timely performance evaluations and other personnel actions for staff supervised.
• Develops, plans, and implements, with team members, short-and long-range organizational strategic goals and objectives per AMC’s Strategic Plan and emerging need areas; implements operational strategies to meet organizational performance plans and goals within budget and timelines.
• As an active member of AMC’s leadership team, the Nurse Manager serves as a strategic contributor to clinical leadership to help reduce costs, enhance revenues, achieve effective utilization, and meet quality goals and objectives, and analyzes/utilizes information to support management decisions. 
• Responsible for implementation of AMC’s Infection Control program and ensures internal compliance; facilitates internal Infection Control Committee.
• Serves as AMC lead for clinical audits by Partnership, Vaccines for Children, CA Health/Disability Prevention and others.
• Actively participates on QA/QI Committee and takes on QA/QI activities and responsibilities per supervisor.
• Oversees the Healthcare Safety Zone portal/program and facilitates/updates clinical portions of Risk Management meetings and directs process improvement related to Risk Management including incident management, data analytics, and governance workflows.
• Participates as required in outside professional development activities including RCHC, CPCA, etc. and other community activities as appropriate; provides opportunities for nursing department staff to support their development.
• Will take initiative in providing direct nursing services in a limited manner as needed. 
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Registered Nurse (RN) license in State of California is required.
• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in healthcare with 3 years of previous nursing leadership required, ideally at a community health center.
• Bilingual in English and Spanish preferred; must have excellent oral and written English communication skills.
• Must have interest and ability to work effectively with teams while performing independently on quality and timely task completion. 
• Demonstrates empathy and respect for vulnerable populations, interest in working collaboratively and capability to follow-through with assigned tasks, cultural competency skills are required.
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