Clinical Nursing Director

4 weeks ago


Santa Clara, California, United States Kaiser Permanente Full time
Job Summary:

As a Clinical Nursing Director at Kaiser Permanente, you will play a key role in planning, organizing, and directing inpatient-nursing services within a service line. Collaborating with KFHP/H and Medical Group staff, you will develop and execute strategic plans to provide quality care and manage cost-effective services aligned with federal, state, and local regulations. Your responsibilities will include achieving the strategic vision for nursing in your assigned areas of accountability, ensuring the quality of nursing care and services to patients, and managing the following areas: Adult Services, Maternal Child Health, and Perioperative.

Essential Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with the Chief Nursing Officer and other medical center management to identify and implement innovative models and best practices, focusing on quality of care, service improvements, and cost reduction.
  • Direct the development and implementation of quality and utilization standards across the continuum of care, ensuring coordinated plans of treatment, patient-focused delivery of services, and cost-effective utilization of necessary services.
  • Coordinate with TPMG to provide seamless transitions of patients across the continuum of care, establishing partnerships with facility leadership groups and ensuring a superior care experience and safe environment for patients and staff.
  • Provide clinical and professional oversight for areas of accountability, ensuring successful implementation of organizational strategies such as Hospital Efficiency, Workplace Safety, and Supply Cost Initiative.
  • Mentor nursing managers in leadership skills, fiscally accountable staffing/scheduling practices, professional development of staff, and outcomes-based practice.
  • Oversee the development of department standards as identified by regulatory agencies, including policies and procedures.
  • Develop services that achieve high levels of customer satisfaction, emphasizing customer service, highest standards of quality, and innovation.
  • Maintain continuous regulatory readiness and manage human resource, labor relations, employee, and department safety and risk management issues.
  • Enhance nursing practice and patient outcomes through the effective use of clinical practice and GRASP committees.
  • Participate in developing the hospital's plan for the recruitment and retention of nursing resources to ensure sufficient qualified staff members are available to meet patient needs.
  • Utilize research data to implement clinical changes and the delivery of patient care and member services.
  • Access KP Health Connect to evaluate the quality of care provided, manage clinical operations, and monitor quality, appropriateness, and accuracy of KP Health Connect documentation.
  • Direct the budget and resource allocations for designated departments, managing financial performance and identifying strategies to reduce costs and improve quality of care and services.
  • Communicate effectively as the hospital's advocate to members of the community, seeking ways to improve and promote the public relations objective of the hospital and marketing services.
Basic Qualifications:
  • Minimum seven (7) years of nursing experience in patient care.
  • Minimum five (5) years of management experience required.
Additional Requirements:
  • Demonstrate strong interpersonal communication skills.
  • Demonstrate ability to lead and manage through influence and change.
  • Proven ability to deliver results for meeting organizational objectives.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of federal and state laws and regulations such as: Knox-Keene Act, Federal HMO Act, Nurse Practice Act, The Joint Commission, and all applicable Medicare and Medi-Cal regulations.
  • ACLS, PALS, NRP certification may be required for positions in specific departments.
  • National Certification preferred within 1 year of hire.
  • Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Magnet/shared governance experience preferred.
  • Managing in a collective bargaining environment preferred.
  • Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) or PhD in Nursing preferred.


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