Nursing Manager - Ambulatory Surgery Center

The Semmes Murphey Clinic's mission is to deliver the best care for people suffering from neurological illness while improving the field of neuroscience.

Our Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) is hiring a Nurse Manager. In this role, you will utilize your strong clinical judgement and administrative skills in equal parts. You are the primary point of contact for day to day operational decisions and maintain quality outcomes, regulatory compliance, and departmental effectiveness. The Semmes Murphey Surgery Center is proud to hold accreditation through the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC). Adhering to these rigorous standards and education drives our quality improvement and patient care efforts. A working knowledge or familiarity of this accrediting body and their standards for this role is a plus.

Our ASC is open Monday to Friday. We are closed nights, weekends, and holidays. This is a full-time, onsite position.

Key Responsibilities 

• Ensure appropriate staffing levels for daily procedural volume and operational needs, address call-ins, staffing shortages; approve time cards and paid time off requests
• Participate in recruitment, interviewing, hiring, and orientation schedules for new employees
• Address employee relations concerns, participate in disciplinary processes, provide coaching, mentoring, and professional guidance to staff members
• Serve as the primary clinical and operational resource for physicians, anesthesia providers, nursing staff, and ancillary personnel
• Lead staff meetings and safety huddles on a regular basis, communicate organizational changes or expectations to staff
• Provide clinical guidance for complex patient cases and ensure appropriate escalation and resolution of patient care concerns
• Monitor equipment, supply inventory, and resource utilization
• Maintain readiness for regulatory, accreditation, and licensing surveys, participate in audits and compliance reviews
• Address deficiencies identified through audits, surveys, environmental rounds and quality reviews
• Foster positive physician and clinic relationships and support efficient access to surgical services