Nurse Manager – Oncology Infusion Clinic   

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago, and Phoenix. our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

The City of Hope Lennar Foundation Cancer Center seeks a capable Nurse Manager to ensure efficient operations in areas such as oncology infusion, day hospital, vascular access, and clinical research. Responsibilities include responding to patient concerns or escalated issues, staff scheduling, administrative duties, facilitating the orientation of new hires with the nurse supervisor, collaborating with leadership on patient safety.  The nurse manager will lead the nurses and nurse supervisor to promote a culture of excellence in patient care, safety, and satisfaction.

This position is Monday – Friday

Sign on Bonus: $20,000

 As a successful candidate, you will:

·         Patient Care, Clinical Quality, Staff Development - Establish and support standards for patient care to assure patient care is timely, safe, and effective.

·         Assure satisfaction of patients, physicians and other customers with care and services that are delivered.

·         Develop and foster collaborative relationships with other departments to support safe and high-quality patient care and services.

·         Measure performance of staff to meet regulatory and patient care standards.

·         Promote the implementation of evidence-based practices in delivery of patient care.

·         Support and facilitate critical thinking of staff.

·         Develop, maintain, and monitor staffing plans for assigned areas to ensure needs are met. Participates in recruitment and maintains adequate numbers of competent staff to provide care and meet patient care standards.

·         Facilitate the orientation of new staff and the continuing education and professional development of existing staff.

·         Assure staff have current licenses, certifications and are competent to provide care.

·         Responsible for writing and delivery of performance evaluations for clinical staff with direct reporting relationship with input from practice leaders and providers as indicated.

·         Manage and lead staff to develop collaborative working relationships within department and with other departments as applicable.

·         Collaborates with human resources to provide counseling or performance improvement of staff as needed.

·         Support and develop the staff to ensure availability to participate in shared governance at the unit and organizational level.

·         Assist nursing and practice leadership in managing and implementing departmental programs and goals that support the strategic plan for the organization and for patient care services.

·         Support departmental implementation of new technology, services, and ongoing improvement.

·         Effectively communicate (written & oral) across the organization. 

·         Performs other related duties as assigned or requested.

Your qualifications should include:

• Bachelor’s degree or master’s degree in nursing is required. 
• 3 years of experience in an area of expertise relevant to the department with demonstrated progressive leadership growth. (outpatient infusion or inpatient oncology unit)
• Current California Registered Nurse license
• Current BLS from the American Heart Association
• Relevant experience with oncology, chemotherapy administration background
• ONS Chemotherapy Immunotherapy certification or obtained within 6 months of hire. /
• National Certification (must be acquired within 12 months of hire or transfer) OCN or BMTCN preferred.

City of Hope employees pay is based on the following criteria: work experience, qualifications, and work location.

City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer.To learn more about our Comprehensive Benefits, pleaseCLICK HERE.