Director of Surgical Services – Surgery - Sharp Metropolitan Medical Campus - Variable Shift – Full Time

• Job ID JR207913 Date posted 07/27/2026
• San Diego, California
• Sharp Memorial Hospital
• Variable
• Regular
• Overview

At Sharp, being a nurse means transforming the health care experience for your patients, for your colleagues and for yourself. In a collaborative environment with state-of-the-art facilities and advanced clinical practices, we encourage you to follow your passions wherever they take you.

As a recognized leader in nursing excellence with Magnet® recognitions for high-quality, patient-centered care, we invite you to join us in providing health care the way it should be. We offer a wide variety of nursing positions — from RNs and clinical nurse leads to case managers and clinical nurse specialists.

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• Job Details

Hours

Shift Start Time

Variable

Shift End Time

Variable

AWS Hours Requirement

8/40 -

• 8 Hour Shift

Additional Shift Information

Weekend

Requirements

As Needed

On-Call Required

Yes

Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum)

$99.500 - $128.380 - $157.270

The stated pay scale reflects the range that Sharp reasonably expects to pay for this position. The actual pay rate and pay grade for this position will be dependent on a variety of factors, including an applicant’s years of experience, unique skills and abilities, education, alignment with similar internal candidates, marketplace factors, other requirements for the position, and employer business practices.

What You Will Do

Responsible for the strategic planning, business development and growth of surgical services for the Sharp Metropolitan Medical Campus (SMMC). The Director develops collaborative relationships with medical directors, medical groups, and the community to enhance the image of SMMC and Sharp HealthCare and who will demonstrate exemplary leadership skills in surgery by being identified as an expert within both Sharp HealthCare and the community.

The Director of Surgical Care develops and supports the integration of surgical service line utilization across Sharp HealthCare through the development of systems and programs to ensure quality outcomes for the community we serve; and evaluates and coordinates clinical research studies for the surgery population in conjunction with the medical directors.

Coordinates the integration of financial, clinical and quality issues for all Operating Rooms, Business Services, and Sterile Processing, providing services for high level disinfection and sterilization throughout SMMC.

Required Qualifications

Master's Degree in Nursing 5 Years Clinical experience in surgical/perioperative services. 5 Years Management experience. California Registered Nurse (RN) - CA Board of Registered Nursing -REQUIRED AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association -REQUIRED

Preferred Qualifications

Doctorate in Nursing Union environment experience. Certified Perioperative Nurse (CNOR) - Competency & Credentialing Institute (CCI) -PREFERRED Six Sigma Green Belt Certification - Various-No accreditation board -PREFERRED Lean Certification - Various-Employee provides certificate -PREFERRED

Other Qualification Requirements

Graduate degree is required upon hire or completed within six months of hire date. If candidate has BSN, then MSN or related graduate degree (MHA, MBA, MPH) is acceptable. If candidate does not have BSN, then graduate degree must be MSN.

Essential Functions

Key Responsibilities

Coordinates and directs the strategic planning and marketing process for surgical services within the SMMC. Determines direction, goals, and objectives of assigned areas and links to appropriate hospital and medical group personnel for implementation of strategic plans. Directs planning for multiple product lines, inclusive of financial planning, and clinical quality care for appropriate integration of SMMC.

Coordinates the appropriate use of resources for service line development throughout the system. Develops and coordinates the monitoring of quality outcome for the surgical patient population and ensures timely performance improvement activities to ensure optimal quality outcomes. Ensures organizational compliance with legislation and regulations as they impact assigned areas.

Develops programs that address the community health care needs for the surgical field. SMH Operating Room: Ensure high level of quality care and services for patients by coordinating and communication operational procedures to staff and physicians. Evaluate and modifies processes.

SMH Business Services: Directs and implements the administrative processes and resources of an inpatient medical or specialty services facility. Ensures quality care and services for patients by implementing systems and operational procedures to coordinate service delivery. JSB Operating Room: Ensure high level of quality care and services for patients by coordinating and communication operational procedures to staff and physicians.

Evaluate and modifies processes. JSB Business Services: Directs and implements the administrative processes and resources of an outpatient medical or specialty services facility or clinic. Ensures quality care and services for patients by implementing systems and operational procedures to coordinate service delivery.

SMB Operating Room: Ensure high level of quality care and services for patients by coordinating and communication operational procedures to staff and physicians. Evaluate and modifies processes. SMMC Sterile Processing: Ensure high level of quality by coordinating and communication with reprocessing of surgical instruments, to include, water quality, equipment, and staff workflow adherence to practice standards and collaborates with diagnostic and procedural units performing High Level Disinfection (HLD) to ensure campus standardization of practices in order to meet regulatory requirements.

Service Holds self and others accountable for the meeting of customer satisfaction goals for assigned units or departments. Acknowledges dissatisfaction and follows through on agreements or actions. Aligns expectations with organizational vision and service-culture initiatives.

Recognizes and initiates opportunities for improvement in patient/family service. Recognizes and initiates opportunities for improvement in physician service. Recognizes and initiates opportunities for improvement in employee service.

Recognizes and initiates opportunities for improvement in interdisciplinary team member service. Leads action team in problem solving and innovating to improve customer satisfaction. Develops new area of expertise in the area of service competency.

Quality Holds self and others accountable for the quality of patient care delivered and for operational excellence for assigned units or departments. Develops, sets and/or enforces regulatory and patient care standards of care in response to identified patient needs. Establishes specific quality goals, connecting the vision to the necessary actions and long-term strategies.

Demonstrates improved quality or operational outcomes due to intervention with other staff, clinicians or physicians. Recognizes physician needs and concerns and initiates opportunities for improvement. Recognizes patient needs and concerns and initiates opportunities for improvement.

Develops new area of expertise in the area of quality competency. People Establishes and holds self and others accountable to meeting goals related to developing an effective workforce within assigned departments or units. Complies with all contract agreements and human resource, regulatory and organizational policies.

Completes all manager initial, ongoing and/or annual competencies. Leads groups in developing and implementing strategic plan to implement organization vision and/or service-culture initiatives. Mentors others in developing new skills and assuming new responsibilities.

Increases retention rate (or reduces turnover) of select group of staff. Facilitates the constructive resolution of intergroup/interdisciplinary conflict. Leads initiative that results in improved teamwork and/or building more effective relationships.

Decreases occurrences of unsafe work practices and/or worker's injuries. Develops new area of expertise in the area of people competency. Financial Accountable for unit(s) financial goals as agreed upon with supervisor (e.g. expense per unit of service, productivity, salary dollars, supply costs, etc.) Recognizes and initiates opportunities for improvement in the financial performance of the unit or department.

Decreases costs of unsafe work practices and/or worker's injuries. Develops new area of expertise in the area of financial competency. Community Contributes to Sharp Healthcare's organizational vision, mission and values related to being a San Diego community partner.

Donates time to community programs. Supports fundraising/donation initiatives. Recognizes opportunities for community partnership and initiates evaluation of benefits, costs and desired outcomes.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Affiliation with professional, National Association in specialty. Ability to exercise sound judgement in business decisions and to critically analyze and problem solve complex and global issues as well as manage solutions at a detailed level. Ability to facilitate and or lead large, diverse, multidisciplinary teams.

Ability to collaborate and build partnerships with physicians, entity and system projects or work teams. Ability to analyze and problem solve at complex global levels as well as manage solutions at a detail level. Ability to provide high quality customer service to all customers served.

Knowledge of regulatory and accreditation agency standards. Technical knowledge of organization and care delivery systems. Advanced computer skills and data analytics to include experience with electronic mail, spreadsheets, and various customer service database programs.

Sharp HealthCare is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability or any other protected class

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Our Mission and Values

At Sharp, our mission is to improve the health of those we serve with a commitment to excellence in all that we do. We aim to offer quality care and services that set community standards, exceed patients’ expectations and are provided in a caring, convenient, cost-effective and accessible manner.

We have a vision to transform the health care experience through a culture of caring, quality, safety, service, innovation and excellence. Our goal is to be the best place to work, the best place to practice medicine and the best place to receive care.

Our team members are the driving force behind our mission and vision. At Sharp, we’re focused on providing an environment that will meet the needs of both our patients and our employees. Our team members are encouraged to connect with their passions and recommit to the purpose of their work each day.

• Benefits
• Medical, vision
• dental and more

Our flexible benefits include a choice of two HMO medical plans (both of which include vision), two PPO dental choices, flexible spending accounts, accident insurance, long-term disability insurance and life insurance.

Generous vacation holiday and sick leave

We offer one of the most generous plans among health care systems in San Diego, and new Sharp employees start with 25 days of paid time off in just the first year.

Wellness programs

We focus on your overall well-being by giving you tools to improve both…