Director Nursing Perioperative Services

Job Summary and Responsibilities

An amazing opportunity has just opened for a Director Nursing of Perioperative Services for St. Bernardine Medical Center. In this role, you’ll oversee the daily operations of the Operating Room, PACU, and Sterile Processing departments. You will develop and manage strategy, budget, resource allocation, and will regularly assess the unit operations and identify process improvements to enhance patient care and patient experience.

To do this, you will lead a team comprised of 200+ staff members with four managers. Our surgical services consists of 10 operating rooms, and we offer services for many specialties including open heart, general, urology, orthopedics, and robotics with our two DaVinci Xi units.

If you are committed to social justice, health equity, and prepared to help shape healthcare to deliver care in new, innovative ways, you belong with us.

Benefits and offerings for this position include (plus much more!):

• Relocation assistance.
• Annual performance-based bonus program.
• Annual employer contribution to retirement program (no employee contribution needed).
• Medical benefits for the employee at no payroll deduction.
• 28 days PTO accrued annually.

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (. BSN) or equivalent education and experience and Master's degree in nursing or other-related field (., MSN/MBA/MHA) required.
• Minimum of three (3) years of nursing experience required.
• Minimum two (2) years of leadership experience required.

• Registered Nursing License (RN) in CA required.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) required.

Founded as a faith-based hospital in 1931 by the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word Dignity Health – St. Bernardine Medical Center is a 342-bed acute care nonprofit hospital located in San Bernardino California. The hospital offers a full complement of services including the Inland Empire Heart and Vascular Institute, an award-winning orthopedics program, surgical weight loss, and is an official Neurovascular Stroke Center as designated by ICEMA.

The hospital shares a legacy of human kindness with Dignity Health, one of the nation’s five largest health care systems.
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Unless directed by a Collective Bargaining Agreement, applications for this position will be considered on a rolling basis. Common Spirit Health cannot anticipate the date by which a successful candidate may be identified.