Manager, Ambulatory Services Operating Room
San Jose, CAFull-time$207–331K/yrPosted 2 days agoStill listed 1 day ago
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Manages operational and nursing leadership across preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative areas, ensuring quality patient care and effective use of resources. Plans department operations, establishes protocols, manages budgets, and develops plans to standardize workflows and implement changes. The role also builds partnerships with internal and external stakeholders and provides guidance or direct intervention in complex situations.
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Organization: PAMF-Palo Alto Medical Foundation CAD Position Overview:
Manages and provides operational and nursing leadership ensuring the quality of nursing care within preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative areas. Plans and organizes operations and resources to ensure effective and efficient delivery of patient care consistent with applicable laws, standards and regulations. Establishes protocols and practices, ensuring compliance with department, affiliate, operating unit, and/or system standards, policies and procedures, the Joint Commission (TJC) standards, and applicable laws and regulations. Takes a strategic and tactical approach in identifying best practices and standardizing workflows/processes, and developing plans of action to implement changes. Establishes and manages capital and operational budgets to achieve financial targets via effective utilization of personnel, resources and supplies. Develops and maintains a solid partnership with internal and external peers, leaders, and/or local/state/federal agencies to facilitate and collaborate on initiatives or issues resolution. Provides guidance and/or direct intervention in resolving challenging or complex situations. Job Description: EDUCATION:
Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
CERTIFICATION & LICENSURE:
BLS-Basic Life Support Healthcare Provider RN-Registered Nurse of California
TYPICAL EXPERIENCE:
5 years recent relevant experience OR Experience Strongly Preferred
SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE:
Solid understanding of operations and workflows and how department’s process/workflow impacts other department operations.
Demonstrates understanding of business and operational requirements.
Demonstrated leadership skills, including team building, and coaching/mentoring with the ability to motivate and engage others.
Demonstrates solid clinical proficiency and knowledge to effectively plan and coordinate patient care consistent with applicable laws, standards and regulations.
Working knowledge and thorough understanding of state/federal/local and/or accreditation standards and requirements as it relations to operations and organization, with the ability interpret and implement applicable standards and requirements.
Demonstrates understanding of healthcare financial environment.
Demonstrates ability to develop and manage a budget.
Understands age specific needs in providing care to patient population served.
Demonstrates tactical and analytical thinking and planning skills, and is able to develop plan to accomplish objectives, identify obstacles and resolve operational issues.
Knowledge of emerging treads and how it impacts operations.
Ability to build and establish effective working partnership with employees, peers and/or leaders to achieve business objectives.
Demonstrates ability to handle confidential and sensitive issues.
Verbal and written communication, and interpersonal skills.
Ability to handle difficult circumstances and make sound business decisions with little direction.
Demonstrates ability to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment with changing business priorities.
Organizational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritize multiple projects while delivering quality service and achieving business results.
Demonstrates a customer service focus in all decisions and actions.
Demonstrates ability to work/interact with a diverse population while respecting cultural and linguistic differences and fostering an inclusive work environment.
Working knowledge of wage and hour laws.
Job Shift: Days Schedule: Full Time Days of the Week: Monday - Friday Weekend Requirements: None Benefits: Yes Unions: No Position Status: Exempt Weekly Hours: 40 Employee Status: Regular Employees of Sutter Health and its entities may handle hazardous drugs in the course of their work, including patient care, which requires them to manage, store, prepare, receive, unpack, transport, dispose of, or administer drugs identified as hazardous or potentially hazardous by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and in accordance with the USP 800 guidelines.
Sutter Health is an equal opportunity employer EOE/M/F/Disability/Veterans.
Pay Range is $206,689.60 to $330,699.20 / annual salary The posted pay range is based on the position's primary work location. Candidates who reside and work outside of that location may be subject to a different pay range based on their work location. Candidate starting salaries consider multiple factors, including, but not limited to a candidate’s experience, education, skills, licensure, certifications, departmental equity, training, and organizational needs. Base pay is only one component of Sutter Health’s comprehensive total rewards program. Eligible positions also include a comprehensive benefits package.
How this job compares
Set against the 652 open Nursing Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 13, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$207–331K/yr
- California median$200–320K/yr32 salary ranges
- US median$97–132K/yr265 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $269K, is 3% above the California median midpoint ($260K) — in the middle half of Nursing Management salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 64 open Nursing Management jobs in California and 652 across the US. None of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Sutter Health (this employer)22 open
- Kaiser Permanente20 open
- Stanford Health Care4 open
- Experience
- Nursing Management postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 3 years (481 postings).
- Education
- 239 of the 652 open Nursing Management jobs (37%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 13, 2026. Figures based on too few postings are left out.
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