Job Description

Clinical Nurse Manager Labor and Delivery at Intermountain Health summary:

The Clinical Nurse Manager for Labor and Delivery at St. Vincent Regional Hospital oversees nursing operations, ensuring high-quality patient care and efficient resource management. This leadership role involves collaborating with nursing leaders and other departments, focusing on staffing, budget management, and performance improvement. The manager is responsible for creating a supportive environment and upholding safety and regulatory standards to enhance overall care delivery.

Job Description:

This role involves managing and supervising nursing departments. Collaborating with nursing leaders and other facility managers and departments, the nurse manager is key in ensuring excellent patient care, achieving financial objectives, and fostering leadership development. The position is accountable for developing departmental structure, processes, and outcome standards, typically for one unit. The job duties are distributed as follows: 50% Tactical (day-to-day activities like staffing and equipment availability), 40% Operational (budget management, supply acquisition, and employee performance evaluations), and 10% Strategic (developing goals to meet the Intermountain/Regional Strategic Plan and holding employees accountable to these goals).
Scope:
• Manages <50 headcount or manages a department operating Monday through Friday.

Job Summary:

As the Clinical Nurse Manager for Labor & Delivery at St. Vincent Regional Hospital, you will oversee daily nursing activities in our Labor and Delivery department. In this leadership role, you will collaborate with nursing leadership and other facility management teams to ensure high-quality patient care, optimal operational performance, and staff development. Your focus will be on fostering a safe, supportive environment for both patients and staff, while implementing key initiatives that enhance care standards, improve operational outcomes, and promote team collaboration. Your leadership will help maintain a family-oriented hospital culture that is deeply rooted in community values.

About Us:

St. Vincent Regional Hospital, located in Billings, Montana, has been delivering compassionate, high-quality care to the people of Montana and Northern Wyoming for over 125 years. Along with 30 regional clinics, we provide a range of progressive specialty services, including St. Vincent Children’s Hospital, a unique "hospital within a hospital" designed specifically for children. St. Vincent is proud to be recognized as one of the top hospitals in the region, consistently earning awards for exceptional patient care.

Hospital Awards:

• Magnet Recognition Program®:
• Baby-Friendly Hospital
• Healthgrades Hospital Quality & Specialty Clinical Quality Awards.
• Outstanding Patient Experience Award (2024, 2023)
• Newsweek's America's Best-In-State Hospitals (2025)
• #5 hospital in Montana.

Key Responsibilities:

As the Clinical RN Manager for Women & Infant Services, you will:

• Oversee Daily Operations: Manage nursing activities across the Labor and Delivery department, ensuring high-quality patient care and efficient resource use.
• Collaborate with Leadership: Partner with nursing leadership, facility management, and other departments to align patient care objectives, organizational goals, and compliance with regulations.
• Staffing & Scheduling: Adjust staffing levels to meet patient needs, ensuring flexibility and cross-training among staff. Lead efforts in recruitment, training, performance evaluations, and compliance with hospital policies.
• Quality & Performance Improvement: Work with leadership to identify opportunities for quality improvement and performance initiatives that drive departmental success. Ensure compliance with safety, infection control, and regulatory standards.
• Financial Oversight: Participate in budget planning, fiscal accountability, and cost control, while monitoring supply inventories and capital equipment purchases.
• Human Resource Management: Oversee recruitment, training, and development of nursing staff. Ensure appropriate staff orientation, competencies, and performance reviews. Handle employee coaching, counseling, and disciplinary actions as needed.
• Interdepartmental Collaboration: Foster positive relationships across departments to ensure coordinated, efficient, and compassionate care delivery for patients and families.
• · Regulatory Compliance: Ensure the department adheres to relevant regulatory standards, hospital policies, and safety protocols.

Position Details:

· Schedule: Full-Time

· Location: St. Vincent Regional Hospital, Billings, MT

· Shift: Varies depending on department needs

Minimum Qualifications:

· Bachelor’s degree in nursing from an accredited institution.

· Current Montana RN license or compact license with the ability to obtain a Montana RN license.

· Current BLS certification (American Heart Association).

· Minimum of 5 years of Labor & Delivery RN experience.

· Minimum of 3 years in progressive leadership roles in nursing.

Preferred Qualifications:

·

Strong leadership and interpersonal communication skills.

· Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Physical Requirements:

Physical Requirements

• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.
• Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information, medication preparation, etc.
• Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients. Will also bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.
• Need to walk and assist with transporting/ambulating patients and obtaining and distributing supplies and equipment. This includes pushing/pulling gurneys and portable equipment, including heavy items. Often required to navigate crowded and busy rooms (full of equipment, power cords on the floor, etc.)
• May be expected to stand in a stationary position for an extended period of time.
• For roles requiring driving: Expected to drive a vehicle which requires sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles.

Location:

Intermountain Health St Vincent Regional Hospital

Work City:

Billings

Work State:

Montana

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.  

$43.67 - $67.41

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

Learn more about our comprehensive benefits package here .

Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

All positions subject to close without notice.

Keywords:

Clinical Nurse Manager, Labor and Delivery, Nursing Leadership, Patient Care, Healthcare Management, Quality Improvement, Staff Development, Regulatory Compliance, Operational Performance, Budget Management

Job Tags

Hourly pay, Full time, Shift work,

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