Hybrid Patient Care Manager, Nurse Manager II – CVOR

at Stanford Health Care

• Job title: Patient Care Manager, Nurse Manager II – CVOR
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $94 - $125 per hour
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Palo Alto, United States

About the role

• Patient Care Manager overseeing CVOR operations and clinical leadership at Stanford Health Care. Responsible for staffing, performance management, and staff education in a high-acuity procedural environment.

Responsibilities

• The CVOR Patient Care Manager (PCM) provides frontline clinical and operational leadership for the Cardiovascular Operating Room.
• Overseeing a highly specialized team supporting cardiothoracic, vascular, and transplant surgical services.
• Ensures staff competency, onboarding, and ongoing education specific to CVOR practice.
• Responsible for daily operations, staffing, patient flow, and coordination of complex and emergent cases.
• Partners closely with surgeons, anesthesia, perfusion, SPD, supply chain, and nursing leadership.
• Accountable for performance management, staff engagement, and retention.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing from an accredited college or university
• Master's Degree in Nursing from an accredited college or university
• 3+ years to 5 years of progressively responsible and directly related work experience.
• Ability to contribute to health care policy formulation when working in partnership with a multidisciplinary team of health care providers.
• Ability to delegate responsibly to others, activities according to ability, level of preparation, the standards of practice and regulatory guidelines.
• Ability to develop programs and lead process improvement projects.
• Ability to establish the strategic direction and business plans for a functional group.
• Ability to initiate and implement change conducive to the improvement of the quality and safety of patient care delivery.
• Ability to supervise, coach, mentor, train, and evaluate work results.
• RN - Registered Nurse - State Licensure And/Or Compact State Licensure required.

Benefits

• Our compensation rates are in the top 1% of the nation.
• We invest in your continued career growth with yearly education funds of $2,000.00 and invest in your retirement with a robust matching program.
• Our positions offer a career ladder and continued pay growth.
• We help you commute to work for free and offer a relocation to make a possible move more manageable for you and your family.
• This role offers an annual incentive plan up to 11.25% of base salary.