Operating Room Manager

Creating Life Better Here starts with you. At San Juan Regional Medical Center, we're more than a healthcare provider-we're a values-driven organization dedicated to delivering exceptional care. As a team member, you help fulfill our mission to make life better here for our community.

The Perioperative Service Line Manager provides operational leadership and direction to ensure perioperative services are aligned with the organization's mission, vision, values, and service standards. In partnership with the Perioperative Service Line Director, the Perioperative Service Line Manager supports the delivery of personalized, safe, and high-quality care across the perioperative continuum. The Perioperative Service Line Manager is responsible for leading, coaching, and developing multidisciplinary teams to achieve performance, quality, and operational goals. This role requires strong leadership skills in communication, motivation, and collaboration, with a focus on daily operations, staff engagement, and consistent execution of service line objectives.

Required Behaviors:

• As you go about fulfilling this mission, your work habits and work relationships should embody SJRMC's values. These values are our culture, our identity as an organization. Sacred Trust, Personal Reverence, Thoughtful Anticipation, Team Accountability and Creative Vitality ask more of us than merely completing some list of tasks. Our values ask for a deeper level of commitment, and what is asked of us we freely give because we believe in our mission

Required Qualifications:

• BSN within five (5) years of hire
• Registered Nurse License in New Mexico
• BLS
• Demonstrates effective interpersonal skills
• Self-motivation and accountability
• Team orientation
• Basic computer skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Clinical Certification in area of specialty
• Previous Management and/or Leadership experience

Duties and Responsibilities:
Financial and Strategic Management:

• Demonstrates a working knowledge of healthcare economics, reimbursement, and health care public policy as they impact perioperative operations.
• Supports the Perioperative Service Line Director in budget management, cost containment, and resource utilization
• Assists with business planning, operational initiatives, and project management to support service line goals and performance targets.

Human Resource Management and Leadership:

• Participates in recruitment, onboarding, and retention activities in collaboration with Human Resources.
• Provides direct leadership, coaching, and performance management for perioperative staff.
• Supports staff development, competency validation, and practice within defined scopes of practice.

Quality and Performance Improvement:

• Demonstrates a consistent commitment to improving quality performance and patient safety.
• Implements and supports departmental and organizational quality initiatives.
• Identifies opportunities for improvement and escalates risks or barriers to leadership as appropriate.

Relationship Management and Influencing Behaviors:

• Communicates effectively with staff, providers, and interdisciplinary partners.
• Lead teams and collaborates across departments to support coordinated perioperative services.
• Understands one's values, beliefs, and attitudes and how they affect interactions with others.

Shared Decision-Making:

• Supports and participates in shared governance and shared decision making structures.

Personal and Professional Accountability:

• Actively participants in personal and professional growth and development.
• Practices and supports nursing standards and scopes of practice.
• Utilizes information technology systems to support business decisions and has a strong understanding of the effect of information technology on patient care.
• Each employee is responsible for implementing SJRMC's Service Standards into their daily work: Safety, Courtesy, Effectiveness, and Stewardship
• Other duties as assigned

Physical Demands and Environmental Work Conditions:

• Must be able to see with corrective eyewear and hear clearly with assistance
• Must be able to walk, stand, bend, squat, climb, kneel, and twist frequently
• Must be able to lift greater than fifty (50) pounds and push up to three hundred (300) pounds frequently
• Potential exposure to blood and bodily fluids and meets OSHA training requirements

Special Demands:

• Sets limits when dealing with angry, hostile, or sometimes verbally or physically abusive patients and families in an attempt to ensure a safe, respectful environment that will support the delivery of care
• Effectively copes and strives for balance when caring for acutely ill patients and families