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Overview:

UCI Health is one of California’s largest academic health systems and the clinical enterprise of the University of California, Irvine. Established on July 1, 1976, UCI Health has grown into a 1,461-bed health system that includes UCI Health — Orange, UCI Health — Irvine, four Community Network hospitals and a growing network of ambulatory care centers across Orange and Los Angeles counties.

As Orange County’s only academic health systems, UCI Health is home to the only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center based in the county, the region’s only American College of Surgeons-verified Level I adult and Level II pediatric trauma center, American College of Emergency Physicians Gold Level 1 Geriatric Emergency Department and a nationally recognized regional burn center verified by the American Burn Association. Powered by UC Irvine, UCI Health serves 5.6 million people across Orange County, western Riverside County and southeast Los Angeles County through excellence in patient care, research and medical education.

Responsibilities:

Position Summary: Under the direction of the Nurse Manager, the supervisor supports the day-to-day operational oversight of the UCI Health System Capacity Command Center that houses Transfer Center, Bed Placement Coordinators, and Transport. The supervisor is directly responsible for overseeing both clinical and non-clinical teams, ensuring adherence to policies, facilitating timely and safe interfacility and intra-location patient transfers, and overseeing patient flow operations at the facility level as it relates to bed placement. The supervisor manages staffing, performance monitoring, workflow management, payroll, scheduling, and frontline issue resolution. This role supports data collection, monitors KPIs, and participates in quality improvement initiatives under the guidance of the Nurse Manager and ensures that the Transfer Center and Capacity Management maintain regulatory, patient safety, and institutional standards. Collaborates with ambulance vendors and transport to ensure the timely movement of patients within the system. This role requires travel to community network sites to provide operational oversight, support staff, and ensure consistency in workflows, processes, and operational practices across locations.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required Qualifications:

• Strong knowledge of hospital operations, patient flow, and clinical processes.
• Strong customer service orientation as well as written and oral communication skills.
• Strong analytical skills to analyze data, review trends and activities, and make recommendations for improvement.
• Must demonstrate excellent customer service skills.
• Must be fully versed in EMTALA and all regulatory requirements, including CMS, state and local regulations.
• Experience working in a transfer center or patient placement setting.
• Demonstrated experience working in an acute care setting.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Bachelor of Science, Nursing.
• Ability to maintain a work pace appropriate to the workload.
• Ability to establish & maintain effective working relationships across the Health System.
• Ability to be successful in a self-directed, self-motivated, fast-paced environment with changing deadlines and priorities.
• Ability and willingness to travel between all facilities within the health system.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience managing a Transfer Center or Capacity Command Center.
• Prior experience as a nurse case manager or house supervisor.
• Master of Science in Nursing or similar graduate degree.

Licenses and Certifications:

• Registered Nurse.
• Basic Life Support.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support.

Education:

• Bachelor of Science, Nursing.
• Master of Science in Nursing.

TOTAL REWARDS

We offer a wealth of benefits to make working at UCI even more rewarding. These benefits may include medical insurance, sick and vacation time, retirement savings plans, and access to a number of discounts and perks. Please utilize the links listed here to learn more about our compensation practices and benefits.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT:

The University of California, Irvine (UCI) seeks to provide a safe and healthy environment for the entire UCI community. As part of this commitment, all applicants who accept an offer of employment must comply with the following conditions of employment:

• Background Check and Live Scan.
• Employment Misconduct*.
• Legal Right to Work in the United States.
• Vaccination Policies.
• Smoking and Tobacco Policy.
• Drug Free Environment.

Exercise the utmost discretion in managing sensitive information learned in the course of performing their duties. Sensitive information includes but is not limited to employee and student records, health and patient records, financial data, strategic plans, proprietary information, and any other sensitive or non-public information learned during the course and scope of employment. Understands that sensitive information should be shared on a limited basis and actively takes steps to limit access to sensitive information to individuals who have legitimate business need to know. Ensure that sensitive information is properly safeguarded. Follow all organizational policies and laws on data protection and privacy. This includes secure handling of physical and digital records and proper usage of IT systems to prevent data leaks. The unauthorized or improper disclosure of confidential work-related information obtained from any source on any work-related matter is a violation of these expectations.

Misconduct Disclosure Requirement: As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts a conditional offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; received notice of any allegations or are currently the subject of any administrative or disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct; have left a position after receiving notice of allegations or while under investigation in an administrative or disciplinary proceeding involving misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of misconduct with a previous employer.

The following additional conditions may apply, some of which are dependent upon business unit or job specific requirements.

• California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act.
• E-Verify.
• Pre-Placement Health Evaluation.

Details of each policy may be reviewed by visiting the following page: https://hr.uci.edu/new-hire/conditions-of-employment.php

CLOSING STATEMENT:

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected categories covered by the UC Anti-Discrimination Policy.

We are committed to attracting and retaining a diverse workforce along with honoring unique experiences, perspectives, and identities. Together, our community strives to create and maintain working and learning environments that are inclusive, equitable, and welcoming.

UCI provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities upon request. For more information, please contact UCI's Employee Experience Center (EEC) at eec@uci.edu or at (949) 824-0500, Monday - Friday from 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.