Registered Nurse, Supervisor OR

About City of Hope,
City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. Founded in 1913, City of Hope has grown into one of the largest and most advanced cancer research and treatment organizations in the U.S., and one of the leading research centers for diabetes and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope research has been the basis for numerous breakthrough cancer medicines, as well as human synthetic insulin and monoclonal antibodies. With an independent, National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center that is ranked top 5 in the nation for cancer care by U.S. News & World Report at its core, City of Hope’s uniquely integrated model spans cancer care, research and development, academics and training, and a broad philanthropy program that powers its work. 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 cancer treatment centers and outpatient facilities in the Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix areas.

The Perioperative Supervisor provides day-to-day clinical, operational, and personnel leadership for the Surgery and Sterile Processing Department (SPD). Reporting to the Senior Manager of Perioperative Services, the Supervisor translates departmental goals into reliable daily practice, coordinates staffing and workflow, and maintains a visible leadership presence across assigned areas. The role is accountable for safe surgical operations, effective instrument processing and availability, regulatory readiness, quality outcomes, staff performance, and timely resolution of operational concerns. 

This leader serves as the direct link among frontline staff, surgeons, anesthesia professionals, SPD personnel, support departments, and perioperative leadership. The Supervisor promotes a high-reliability culture, evidence-based practice, interdisciplinary collaboration, and shared accountability for patient safety, employee engagement, service excellence, and continuous improvement. The Supervisor may provide hands-on clinical support within the scope of licensure and demonstrated competency and acts on behalf of department leadership when delegated.

The successful candidate:

• Daily Operations and Patient Flow: Directs daily Surgery and SPD operations, including case readiness, room assignments, staffing deployment, breaks, add-on and urgent cases, instrument and implant availability, and coordination of turnover priorities. Conducts operational huddles, escalates barriers, and ensures timely communication among the operating room, SPD, surgeons, anesthesia, vendors, and support services. Adjusts resources in real time to support safe, efficient patient flow and procedural throughput. 
• People Leadership and Workforce Management: Provides direct supervision, coaching, rounding, and performance feedback for assigned Surgery and SPD personnel. Participates in recruitment, selection, onboarding, competency validation, scheduling, timekeeping, attendance management, recognition, corrective action, annual evaluations, and professional development. Promotes psychological safety, respectful communication, teamwork, retention, and equitable application of policies and standards. 
• Quality, Safety, and Regulatory Compliance: Monitors compliance with organizational policies and applicable regulatory and professional standards, including infection prevention, aseptic practice, surgical safety processes, medication safety, specimen management, count practices, implant controls, decontamination, high-level disinfection when applicable, sterilization, storage, transport, and traceability. Maintains survey readiness, participates in tracers, investigates safety events and near misses, completes timely follow-up, and implements sustainable corrective actions.
• Sterile Processing and Surgical Instrument Oversight: Ensures effective coordination of decontamination, inspection, assembly, packaging, sterilization, storage, case-cart preparation, and distribution of reusable medical devices. Monitors instrument quality, biological and chemical indicator processes, sterilization documentation, loaner instrumentation, immediate-use steam sterilization practices, preventive maintenance, inventory levels, and instrument repair needs. Partners with Infection Prevention and perioperative leaders to resolve process deviations and protect instrument availability and patient safety. 
• Performance Improvement and Resource Stewardship: Tracks and reports operational and quality indicators such as first-case on-time starts, turnover time, delay reasons, staffing productivity, overtime, surgical site infection prevention measures, count discrepancies, sterilization quality, missing instruments, tray accuracy, and customer service concerns. Uses data to identify trends, lead improvement work, standardize processes, and support responsible labor, supply, equipment, and instrument utilization.
• Collaboration, Education, and Leadership Coverage: Collaborates with the Senior Manager, other perioperative supervisors, physicians, anesthesia, nursing, SPD, Infection Prevention, Quality, Supply Chain, Facilities, and other partners to implement departmental and organizational priorities. Communicates policy, workflow, equipment, and practice changes; reinforces staff education; supports shared governance; and represents Surgery and SPD in meetings or committees as assigned. Provides leadership coverage and responds to urgent operational or clinical issues during and outside standard hours as required.
• Follows established City of Hope and department policies, procedures, objectives, performance improvement, attendance, safety, environmental, and infection control guidelines, including adherence to the workplace code of Conduct and Compliance Plan.

Qualifications

Your qualifications should include:

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)
• Five (5) years of progressive perioperative nursing experience, including a minimum of two (1) years in a charge nurse, lead, supervisory, or other leadership role. Demonstrated operating room experience is required. 
• Active Registered Nurse (RN) license in Arizona or a multistate license with Arizona practice privileges.
• American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS). American Heart Association Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS).

City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer.

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