The Role
Manages patient care operations, nursing staff, staffing plans, budgets, inventory, quality improvement, regulatory compliance, and performance standards. Oversees staff selection, supervision, development, and evaluation while ensuring high-quality patient treatment and adherence to practice policies. Coordinates resources, improves workflows, and addresses operational and emergent requirements.
Summary Generated by Built In
Oversees the administration of patient care operations, including human resource management, operations management, facilities/physical assessment management, business center operations and patient coordination. Ensures high-caliber patient care and treatment.
Responsibilities
Benefits Overview
- Oversees and participates in patient care operations.
- Ensures operational practices are continually improved through the development, implementation and evaluation of continuous quality improvement initiatives.
- Ensures compliance with institutional, divisional, and unit-based policies and procedures as well as external regulatory requirements.
- Provides financial oversight to include supply inventory, equipment budget preparation and implementation.
- Ensures performance to annual budget by taking corrective action when appropriate or necessary.
- Oversees the selection, supervision, development and evaluation of staff.
- Develops, monitors and enforces productivity and performance standards.
- Ensures maintenance of all practice standards.
- Develops staffing plans and justifies incremental resources.
- Performs all other duties as assigned.
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Nursing (BSN)
- Ability to demonstrate in-depth knowledge of concepts, practices, and policies with the ability to use them in complex, varied situations.
- Ability to direct and contribute to initiatives and processes while creating a collaborative and respectful team environment and improving workflows.
- Knowledge of business and management principles involved in planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
- Demonstrated ability to organize and coordinate work within schedule constraints and handle emergent requirements in a timely manner.
- Detail oriented with meticulous planning, organizational and negotiating skills.
- Bio/Chemo card and oncology nursing preferred.
The University of Texas at San Antonio (UT San Antonio) is a nationally recognized, top-tier public research university that unites the power of higher education, biomedical discovery and healthcare within one visionary institution. As the third-largest research university in Texas and a Carnegie R1-designated institution, UT San Antonio is a model of access and excellence — advancing knowledge, social mobility and public health across South Texas and beyond. UT San Antonio serves approximately 42,000 students in 320 academic programs spanning science, engineering, medicine, health, liberal arts, AI, cybersecurity, business, education and more. With 17,000 faculty and staff, UT San Antonio has been recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Employers for Company Culture.
Benefits Overview
UT Health San Antonio offers an excellent benefits package for its employees. Employees who work at least 20 hours a week, with an appointment of at least 4.5 months, are eligible for benefits.
Medical - UT SELECT Medical insurance is offered free for employees and administered by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas. Family members can be added to the plan through payroll deduction. Employees and their dependents can also receive discounted copays and coinsurance when using UT Health Physicians, a network of 800 premier physicians including more than 100 specialists. Employees receive $50,000 of group term life insurance and $50,000 of basic accidental death and dismemberment insurance for free, with options to purchase additional employee and dependent coverage for both at group rates.
Dental - Three dental insurance plan options are available for employees and their families through Delta Dental Insurance Company, two PPOs and one dental HMO plan. Both PPO plans allow employees to choose any licensed dentist.
Vision - Fully insured Vision Care benefits are offered by Superior Vision Services. Two vision plan options that offer either standard or enhanced vision benefits.
Disability - Employees can enroll in the Disability Insurance which provides income if a non-work related illness or injury prevents you from working.
FSAs - Employees can enroll in flexible spending accounts (FSAs) to set aside money from earnings before taxes for qualifying dependent day care expenses or out-of-pocket health care expenses.
Retirement - Employees are eligible for either the Teacher Retirement System (TRS) or the Optional Retirement Plan (ORP). TRS is a defined benefit retirement plan which UT Health matches employee contributions. ORP is for eligible faculty staff employees. Voluntary retirement programs are also available to invest before- or after-tax dollars with the choice of five quality retirement plan providers.
Time Off - A generous leave program offers multiple paid leave options:
- Front-loaded Paid Time Off: 128 to 208 hours (16 to 26 days) of Paid Time Off based on years of service, given at the start of each fiscal year. PTO may be prorated in year one based on date of hire.
- Extended Illness Bank: 8 hours (1 day) accrued per month which can be used for illness or injury after one day of Paid Time Off is taken.
- Paid Family Leave: Up to 240 hours (6 weeks) to care for a spouse, child, or parent after 6 months of consecutive employment.
- Holidays: 12 set paid holidays each year.
Discounts - Employees enjoy a range of discounts on services, tickets, and gym membership.
EEO Statement
UT Health San Antonio is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer. It is our policy to promote and ensure equal employment opportunity for all individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, or veteran status.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Nursing (BSN)
- In-depth knowledge of nursing concepts, practices, and policies, including application in complex situations
- Ability to direct and contribute to initiatives and improve workflows
- Knowledge of business and management principles, resource allocation, human resources, leadership, production methods, and coordination
- Ability to organize and coordinate work within schedule constraints and handle emergent requirements
- Detail-oriented planning, organizational, and negotiating skills
- Bio/Chemo card and oncology nursing experience
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The Company
What We Do
UT Health San Antonio™, one of the country’s leading health sciences universities, is the leader in south/central Texas funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The university’s schools of medicine, nursing, dentistry, health professions and graduate biomedical sciences have produced more than 33,000 alumni. The $806.6 million operating budget supports four campuses in San Antonio and Laredo, and is the primary driver of its community’s $37 billion biomedical and health care industry. For more information on the many ways “We make lives better®,” visit uthealthsa.org.
