Montana Rural Healthcare Nursing Leadership Opportunities
$31,200–$31,200 year
On-siteMontana, United States
Job Summary
Provide daily leadership, guidance, and support to nursing teams while overseeing staffing, scheduling, patient flow, and call coverage. Mentor, coach, and develop nurses, charge nurses, and emerging leaders to strengthen engagement, retention, and workplace culture. Respond to staffing concerns, clinical issues, and emergencies by collaborating with physicians, tribal partners, and department leaders to ensure safe, high-quality, community-focused care. Develop and maintain nursing policies, monitor quality and safety standards, and support recruitment, workforce planning, and succession strategies. Maintain coverage during vacancies, severe weather, or increased demand while coordinating care across multiple facilities, clinics, and regional networks.
Required Qualifications
- Current Registered Nurse licensure or eligibility for Montana licensure
- Progressive nursing experience
- Previous leadership experience as a nurse manager, supervisor, house supervisor, director, or comparable nursing leader
- Strong clinical judgment, communication, organization, and problem-solving skills
- Experience supporting staffing, scheduling, employee development, or nursing operations
- Knowledge of quality, patient safety, regulatory requirements, infection prevention, and nursing standards
- The ability to remain calm, visible, practical, and supportive during challenging situations
- Experience leading through workforce shortages, organizational change, or operational instability
- Experience supporting nurses across multiple departments, facilities, reservations, or communities
- Experience with rural hospitals, Critical Access Hospitals, FQHCs, public hospital districts, tribal healthcare organizations, regional systems, clinics, long-term care providers, or community healthcare organizations
- Relevant education and certification based on the specific position
- A collaborative, dependable, and relationship-focused leadership style
Desired Qualifications
- Some opportunities may require or prefer a bachelor's degree in nursing, a master's degree, specialty certification, or previous experience within a particular clinical department
- Experience supporting nurses working across emergency, inpatient, outpatient, clinic, long-term care, maternal health, surgical, or community-based services
- Experience helping maintain coverage during vacancies, severe weather, transportation delays, wildfire impacts, or increased patient demand
- Experience supporting telehealth, regional consultation, and coordination between rural care, tribal healthcare programs, and regional hospitals
- Supporting patients, families, employees, and communities during difficult or unexpected situations
- Helping ensure nursing services remain stable, dependable, and available to the communities being served
- The work requires resilience, adaptability, sound judgment, and a genuine commitment to supporting the people who deliver care
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