Clinic Nursing Manager

Job Overview

What You Can Expect:

Our employees love Grand Itasca for the stability, meaningful work and great team. If you are looking for professional growth and development with hands on experience caring for a diverse patient population, Grand Itasca is where you belong!

We're glad you are thinking about joining us

Grand Itasca is a great place to work. We're a non-profit organization with a clear vision of being the leader in transforming rural health care by achieving the highest levels of quality, access, and value. Our strength stems from teamwork and collaboration among a talented and diverse group of professionals. With over 700 employees in hundreds of different roles, Grand Itasca can offer a variety of career opportunities.

Let's talk about benefits

• Competitive pay
• Tuition reimbursement and scholarship/grant opportunities
• Health, dental, vision, & life insurance kick in on the first of the month after 30 days of employment
• Generous paid time off package to maintain a healthy home-work balance
• STDB (short term disability bank)
• 401K with employer contributions

About the Position

• Manager of Clinic Nursing
• Full-time 1.0 FTE (80 hours per pay period)
• Days, no weekends!
• Onsite at Grand Itasca Clinic and Hospital

Job Summary:

The Manager of Clinic Nursing provides strategic leadership and operational oversight for nursing and clinical support services across a broad and continuously evolving ambulatory care environment. This role is responsible for innovative planning, developing, coordinating, and evaluating clinical programs to ensure high-quality, patient-centered care; efficient and effective use of resources; compliance with regulatory standards; and strong interdisciplinary operational performance. The Manager of Clinic Nursing partners closely with all aspects of clinic leadership to advance clinical priorities, strengthen clinical workflows, and elevate nursing practice across all clinic settings. This position directly supervises clinic nursing leaders and other designated staff, while fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, professional growth, and continuous improvement.

Here's what you'll do when you join us:

• Provide strategic leadership and daily oversight for nursing and clinical support services across ambulatory clinic areas.
• Oversee workflow design, care team operations, and clinical processes to ensure efficiency and alignment with best practices.
• Lead and monitor initiatives that improve patient experience, staff engagement, and quality outcomes.
• Participate in hiring processes, including interviewing, selection, and onboarding of frontline staff.
• Develop, implement, and evaluate clinical programs to strengthen patient care delivery.
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement by evaluating clinical operations, identifying opportunities to enhance patient care, optimize workflows, increase efficiency, and strengthen team performance across all ambulatory care settings.
• Lead initiatives that implement best practices, foster innovation, and support ongoing professional development for nursing and clinical staff.
• Leverages strong Epic/EHR knowledge to drive innovation, evaluate upgrade impacts, and simplify clinical workflows; partners with Supervisors to operationalize changes, identifying opportunities to streamline processes, and train staff effectively.
• Partners with department supervisors on staff performance metrics and performance.
• Leads nursing components of team meetings in partnership with nursing supervisors.
• Drive innovation by identifying and piloting new nursing care delivery models, and process improvements that enhance access, efficiency, and patient outcomes.
• Collaborate with the Nursing Staffing Coordinator to manage staffing models and labor optimization.
• Guide teams through the rollout, adoption, and evaluation of innovative practices to ensure sustainable integration into clinic operations.
• Assist with the development, education, and implementation of evidence-based practice, procedures, and policies to ensure the delivery of exceptional patient care.
• Manage overall clinical resources, supplies, and equipment to support effective care delivery and cost stewardship.
• Coordinate cross-departmental collaboration with providers, other members of clinic leadership, and operational partners to ensure integrated care delivery.
• Lead implementation of new clinical services, program expansions, and workflow changes.
• Facilitate effective communication across nursing, clinical teams, providers, and leadership.
• Monitors Fairview Health Services standardization initiatives, EHR updates, and system rollouts; evaluates applicability to clinic operations and leads effective implementation, including staff education and change support.
• Support budget planning, monitoring, and resource utilization for clinic nursing operations.
• Promote a culture of accountability, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

If you have these qualifications, we'd love to chat:

• Bachelor's degree in healthcare or a related field required.
• Current RN nursing licensure in the state of Minnesota.
• Three to five years of clinic leadership experience required.
• Current BLS certification or ability to complete within two months of employment.
• Demonstrated ability to adhere to Grand Itasca Clinic & Hospital policies, procedures, mission, vision, and values.
• Demonstrated ability to understand, apply, and optimize clinical and operational processes to improve workflow efficiency, quality outcomes, and team performance.
• Reliable and consistent attendance.
• Perform other related duties as required. This list is not all-inclusive, and any other relevant task or job may be assigned in the future.

About Grand Itasca:

Grand Itasca brings the benefits of a large and respected health system to our local community. We are a non-profit, state-of-the-art, integrated clinic and hospital that is proud to offer a range of high-quality providers, specialties and services to our community. Enjoy our patient-centered, comprehensive approach, close to home without venturing from the beauty of northern Minnesota.

Benefit Overview

Grand Itasca Clinic & Hospital offers a generous benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, PTO, a short-term disability bank, retirement,tuition reimbursement, early access to earned wages and more. Employees also have access to voluntary insurance options, and resources to support their financial and personal well-being. For additional information, please follow this link: https://www.granditasca.org/benefits/Director-Manager

Compensation Disclaimer

The posted pay range is for a 40-hour workweek (1.0 FTE). The actual rate of pay offered within this range may depend on several factors, such as FTE, skills, knowledge, relevant education, experience, and market conditions. Additionally, our organization values pay equity and considers the internal equity of our team when making any offer. Hiring at the maximum of the range is not typical.

EEO Statement

EEO/Vet/Disabled: All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to any lawfully protected status