Lead a High-Performing Trauma & Transplant OR Team
Ready to take the next step in your perioperative leadership career? Join one of the region's premier Trauma and Transplant Operating Rooms as an OR Clinician, where you'll lead off-shift operations, mentor nursing staff, and help drive exceptional patient outcomes in one of the most complex surgical environments.
This is more than a leadership position. It's an opportunity to shape team culture, develop future nurses, support cutting-edge surgical care, and make a meaningful impact every shift.
Schedule
- Four 10-hour night shifts per week
- Monday-Friday schedule
- 8:30 PM - 7:00 AM
- Leadership-focused position with direct reports
Opportunity to influence operations across a high-acuity Trauma & Transplant service line
About the Role
As the OR Clinician, you'll serve as the clinical and operational leader for off-shift activities within our Trauma and Transplant OR. You'll supervise staff, support daily surgical operations, mentor nurses at all stages of their careers, and partner with multidisciplinary teams to ensure exceptional patient care and operational excellence.
You'll have the opportunity to influence clinical practice, lead quality initiatives, support employee engagement, and play a critical role in the success of one of our most specialized surgical programs.
What You'll Do
Lead Operations
- Oversee off-shift operations for a busy Trauma and Transplant OR.
- Partner with surgeons, anesthesia providers, and nursing leadership
Support surgical readiness and efficient patient flow.
Develop the Team
- Participate in hiring, onboarding, and employee development.
- Coach, mentor, and support a team of perioperative professionals.
- Foster a culture of accountability, engagement, and professional growth.
Advance Clinical Excellence
- Lead quality improvement, evidence-based practice, and patient safety initiatives.
- Drive improvements in patient outcomes and operational performance.
- Promote regulatory complicance and best practices.
Stay Connected to Patient Care
- Servce as a clinical expert and resource.
- Provide directo patient care support when needed.
- Use advanced clinical judgment to guide complex situations.
Foster a Positive Team Culture
- Build strong working relationships across disciplines.
- Promote engagement, collaboration, and professional accountability.
- Support diversity, inclusion, respectful communication, and a healthy work environment.
- Lead by example through professionalism, compassion, and service excellence.
What Makes You Successful
You may be a great fit if you:
- Have a strong background in perioperative nursing and surgical services.
- Enjoy mentoring and developing nursing staff.
- Thrive in fast-paced, high-acuity environments.
- Are energized by solving operational challenges and leading teams.
- Have a passion for quality improvement, patient safety, and exceptional patient experiences.
- Want to make a lasting impact on both patients and caregivers.
Why Join Our Team?
In this role, you'll help lead one of the most specialized operating room environments in the region, supporting trauma and transplant patients when they need us most.
You'll enjoy:
- Meaningful leadership responsibilities
- Direct influence on staff development and unit culture
- Opportunities to drive quality and operational initiatives
- Collaboration with highly skilled surgeons and interdisciplinary teams
- A challenging and rewarding clinical environment
- The opportunity to shape the future of perioperative care while continuing to grow as a nursing leader
- Minimum 3 years of nursing experience
- Master's degree preferred.
- BS/BSN required.
- If BS degree not in nursing, a Master's or higher degree in Nursing is required.
- Demonstrated competence as a Professional Staff Nurse.
The individual must be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care and/or interact appropriately to the ages of the patients served by his/her assigned unit as specified below. Must demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to their age-specific needs and to provide the care needs as described in the department policy and procedures.Ability to establish and maintain positive, caring relationships with executives, managers, physicians, non-physician providers, ancillary and support staff, other departments, and patients/families.Ability to work productively and effectively within a complex environment, handle multiple/changing priorities and specialized equipment.Exemplary clinical judgment with critical thinking, analytical and problem solving abilities required as related to various aspects of patient care.Critical thinking skills necessary to exercise and to lead others in application of the nursing process.Mobility and visual manual dexterity.Physical stamina for frequent walking, standing, lifting and positioning of patients.
Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:
Current licensure as a Registered Professional Nurse in practicing state. National Certification preferred. CPR required based on AHA standards that include both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of hire
- Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
- Registered Nurse (RN)
- Act 34
*Current licensure either in the state where the facility is located or, if the facility is in a state covered by the multistate Nursing Licensure Compact (NLC) agreement, a multistate license issued by a participating NLC state. Hires and current employees working on an out-of-state NLC license who later change their residency to the state where the facility is also located will have 60 days upon changing their residency to apply for licensure within that state.
Applicants will be placed in the appropriate job title and salary from the career ladder, based on their individual experience and education.
UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran