Kaiser Permanente
Senior Nurse Director, Care at Home
Job Location
Pasadena, CA, United States
Job Description
Job Summary: In addition to the responsibilities below, this position is also responsible for proactively establishing best practice models; designing long-term patient care delivery systems and practice standards in several locations; leading the investigation of patient/family/member concerns regarding patient care and services; forming strategic partnerships with physicians, outside healthcare providers, and other health care team members to achieve optimal and safe patient care at home; forecasting resource needs in clinical areas to ensure appropriate assignment and utilization; evaluating the use and maintenance of equipment, supplies and medications; assuming accountability for patient and employee safety; maintaining clinical expertise of self and/or team, providing clinical supervision, competency and licensing necessary to fulfill job responsibilities and to direct the provision of care at home; delegating tasks and duties that are aligned to scope of practice; and performing clinical duties as required. Essential Responsibilities: Builds organizational capacity and prepares high potentials for growth opportunities and advancement; builds collaborative networks inside and outside the organization for self and others. Provides framework for soliciting and acting on performance feedback; drives collaboration to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to foster performance improvement. Models and drives continuous learning and oversees the recruitment, selection, and development of talent; stays current with industry trends, benchmarks, and best practices; ensures performance management guidelines and expectations to achieve business needs. Acts as a thought leader on industry trends, benchmarks, and best practices; shares best practices within and across teams to drive improvement. Motivates and empowers teams; maintains a highly skilled and engaged workforce by aligning cross-functional resource plans with business objectives. Provides guidance when difficult decisions need to be made; creates opportunities for expanded scope of decision making and impact across teams. Oversees the operation of multiple units and/or departments by identifying member and operational needs; ensures the management of work assignment allocation and completion; translates business strategy into actionable business requirements; ensures products and/or services meet member requirements and expectations while aligning with organizational strategies. Engages strategic, cross-functional business units to champion and drive support for business plans and priorities; assumes responsibility for decision making; sets standards, measures progress, and ensures resolution of escalated issues. Sets and communicates goals and objectives; analyzes resources, costs, and forecasts and incorporates them into business plans; obtains and distributes resources. Anticipates and removes obstacles that impact performance; addresses performance gaps and implements contingency plans accordingly; ensures teams accomplish business objectives; serves as a subject-matter expert and trusted source to executive leadership; provides influence and consultation in the development of the larger organizational or business strategy. Directs continuum of care / care at home operations to support patient care by: anticipating business issues and barriers and providing recommendations and overseeing the development of strategy with stakeholders to identify factors contributing to business value; aligning workflow and performance targets across departments and across KP and accountable for department performance targets and aligning with market strategies; optimizing and prioritizing operational initiatives and strategies related to departmental or program goals, objectives, and/or outcomes; partnering with internal and external stakeholders to identify areas of improvement and alleviate potential barriers to the implementation of human resource management programs; forecasting and establishing long-term survey and compliance readiness activities, including mock rounds and mitigating issues, to maintain compliance and regulatory standards and defining standards for audit documentation, information, and reports; and ensuring short and long-range financial goals are met by establishing and controlling the department budget and ensuring overall financial performance meets expectations. Ensures standardized care delivery by: leveraging enterprise interdependencies across multiple programs and/or program workstreams to align key care delivery initiatives across KP; assuming accountability for short- and long-term results and performance while ensuring guideline and regulation alignment for regional shared services cross-functionality; building relationships with key leaders internal and external to KP to develop and implement patient management solutions, ensuring consistency and seamless transitions across the continuum of care; anticipating and aligning resources in clinical areas to ensure appropriate assignment and utilization for regional shared services cross-functionality; overseeing multidisciplinary continuum of care / care at home leaders and service lines; establishing standards across the enterprise that ensure appropriate oversight to maintain high quality contract/vendor relations that provide optimal patient care and medical services for care across the continuum; planning the long-term strategic goals of emergency preparedness programs, overseeing regional shared services cross-functionality, and ensuring the shared services emergency preparedness and recovery plans are current and that managers and staff are trained and know what is expected during and after an emergency; providing strategic direction to project teams leading initiatives and overseeing implementation, equitable distribution of resources, and delivery on objectives; and defining and maintaining oversight, and communication at the enterprise level. Oversees improvements to operations and technology processes by: forecasting and determining the direction of future strategic projects and providing oversight for multiple internal and external strategic projects designed to remediate issues and improve quality, service, affordability, and/or operating efficiency; using broad trends from analysis across operations processes to identify and facilitate implementation of new practices and solutions to optimize the performance of operations system processes; and consulting with executive management for the effective integration of performance metrics to monitor the success of strategic improvement projects across the organization. Minimum Qualifications: Bachelors deg
Location: Pasadena, California, US
Posted Date: 11/16/2025
Location: Pasadena, California, US
Posted Date: 11/16/2025
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