FBC Nurse Manager
On-site · Stayton, Oregon, United States
Job Summary
The Family Birth Center Nurse Manager provides operational and clinical leadership for the Family Birth Center at Santiam Hospital & Clinics. Oversees safe staffing, regulatory readiness, staff competency, quality data review, patient experience, and collaboration with physicians, nursing leadership, and interdisciplinary partners. Maintains clinical competency to provide direct patient care during high-acuity, high-census, emergency, or short-staffing scenarios; balances leadership with bedside support and drives staff development, recruitment, onboarding, performance management, and process improvements to advance family-centered obstetric, postpartum, and newborn care.
Required Qualifications
- Graduate of an accredited school of nursing
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing required
- Current unencumbered Oregon Registered Nurse license
- Current BLS certification required
- Current NRP certification required or obtained within required organizational timeframe
- Current fetal monitoring education/certification required or obtained within required organizational timeframe
- Demonstrated progression in nursing leadership, including charge nurse experience, clinical coordination, supervisory responsibility, or equivalent leadership accountability
- Demonstrated clinical competence in obstetric, postpartum, and newborn care sufficient to support bedside care, staff coaching, and safe escalation of concerns
- Ability to function as a clinical resource and provide direct patient care within the Family Birth Center when operational needs are required, including high-acuity situations, high census, emergency response, or short-staffing scenarios
- Knowledge of obstetric, newborn, and postpartum nursing standards of care
- Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with patients, families, staff, providers, and leaders
- Ability to lead teams through change, support accountability, and promote a culture of safety, professionalism, and continuous improvement
- Working knowledge of regulatory, quality, and patient safety expectations applicable to inpatient obstetric and newborn care
- Ability to participate in hospital orientation, leadership development, and ongoing educational requirements
- Preferred: minimum of three years of healthcare leadership experience
- Preferred: leadership experience in labor and delivery, postpartum, newborn care, women's services, or Family Birth Center setting
- Preferred: certification in obstetric, perinatal, maternal-newborn, or nursing leadership specialty
- Preferred: experience with quality improvement, regulatory readiness, staff scheduling, performance management, and interdisciplinary care coordination
- Preferred: Master’s degree in nursing, healthcare leadership, business, or related field
- Physical requirements appropriate for clinical leadership role
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