Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. 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 treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.   

City of Hope will be opening our second academic hospital on the Irvine Campus – the only specialty cancer hospital in the area – completing the continuum of care in Orange County and we are seeking a Director, Nursing to ensure efficient operations over our ICU, Hematology, Medical Surg Oncology and ETC Units. 

We’re seeking a skilled and strategic Director of Nursing Administration to lead both our Case Management Department and our team of House Supervisors at City of Hope Orange County Cancer Center.

In this key leadership role, you’ll be responsible for overseeing the strategic direction and day-to-day operations of case management to ensure high-quality patient care, efficient throughput, and smooth transitions from admission through discharge. You’ll also provide leadership and direct support to house supervisors, helping coordinate hospital-wide operations and ensuring continuity of care. The Director of Nursing effectively partners with hospital leadership, medical staff and other departments to create a center of excellence for their specialty service and to meet the hospital’s mission, vision and goals.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage the Case Management Department and House Supervisor team
• Drive effective discharge planning and appropriate resource utilization
• Support patient flow, care transitions, and overall hospital operations
• Collaborate across departments to improve patient outcomes and operational efficiency
• This role has the degree of independence required to achieve operating results consistent with approved operating plans, objectives, and policies.  The Director is responsible for the overall operations of her/his departments, including compliance with all regulatory agencies for all areas of responsibility. 
• Effectively communicates with patients, visitors, management staff, departmental personnel, physicians, peers and other City of Hope personnel.   Participates in required meetings.    Demonstrates effective problem solving, negotiating, and conflict resolution skills. 
• Responsible for goal development, planning, execution and evaluation of goal achievement.  Develops short, mid and long-term goals with plans to facilitate/guide goal achievement that are consistent with the mission and values of the City of Hope.

Your qualifications should include:

• Master's Degree in Nursing or in Related Field. If Master's Degree is in a related field, must have bachelor’s degree in Nursing.
• 7+ years nursing experience required with a minimum of 5+ years in nursing leadership.
• Lean, Six Sigma or other quality related courses
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and relationship building
• knowledge of the health care environment
• leadership that includes such skills as successfully implementing and managing a change process – ability to use systems thinking- and inspire, coach others to be successful
• model the way for professional practice; manages the design and delivery of care that in based on evidence and focused on quality and safety
• professionalism and teamwork/collaboration for self/department/medical staff
• possess necessary business skills to manage human and material resources.
• Must be a continuous learner who understands health care financing, strategy and operations for running a business unit(s)
• effectively employ data and technology to support work processes and make decisions.
• Supports shared governance or shared decision making
• Knowledge of risk management and various accreditation/regulations and licensing requirements assuring that these are upheld while advancing industry standards through the achievement of goals by effective management and measurement of outcomes.
• Proven track record of strategic programmatic leadership and development especially as it relates to implementing nursing quality standards, nursing education, nursing policies and procedures, nursing career development, business continuity planning, compliance, and accreditation (Magnet and Joint Commission).
• Knowledge of Title 22, DHS, and Joint Commission standards
• Must have Excellent Interpersonal skills, must have the ability to effectively influence and persuade nursing, physician, and hospital leadership to implement change.

Required Certification/Licensure:

• Current California license required or must be obtained within 6 months of hire. 
• National Certification to be acquired within 12 months of hire

Preferred education experience and skills:

• 3–5 years of case management experience, preferably in an oncology or acute care setting

• 2–3 years in a house supervisor or nursing leadership role

• Strong leadership, communication, and critical thinking skills

• A passion for patient-centered care and operational excellence

• National Certification in Administration or Quality
• Clinical and progressive management leadership in an oncology setting

Additional Information:

• Relocation assistance may apply.
• This position requires up to 25% travel

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