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UnityPoint Health

Surgical Services Mgr

Fort Dodge, IA · On-site

As our Manager of Surgical Services, you'll lead the daily operations of our Operating Room, PACU, Anesthesia Services, and Wound Healing Center, ensuring every patient receives safe, high-quality ...

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How much do surgical manager jobs pay per year?

As of Aug 28, 2026, the average yearly pay for surgical manager in Iowa is $92,305.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $68,100.00 and $111,800.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What does a surgical manager do?

A Surgical Manager oversees the daily operations of surgical departments within hospitals or clinics. Their responsibilities include coordinating surgical schedules, managing staff, ensuring compliance with safety protocols, and optimizing patient care in the surgical environment. They also handle budgeting, inventory management, and collaborate with surgeons, nurses, and administrative staff to maintain high standards. Strong leadership and organizational skills are essential for this role.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a surgical manager?

To thrive as a Surgical Manager, you need strong leadership abilities, clinical knowledge in surgical care, and often a background in nursing or healthcare management with relevant licensure or certification. Familiarity with operating room scheduling software, electronic health records (EHRs), and quality assurance systems is typically required. Exceptional organizational skills, communication, and the ability to manage and motivate multidisciplinary teams set top performers apart. These competencies are crucial to ensure efficient surgical operations, patient safety, and high-quality care delivery.

What are the main challenges a surgical manager might face in coordinating multidisciplinary surgical teams?

Surgical Managers often navigate the complex task of aligning the schedules, communication, and priorities of surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, and support staff to ensure smooth surgical operations. Managing competing demands for operating room time, addressing last-minute changes, and ensuring compliance with safety protocols can be challenging. Effective Surgical Managers build strong relationships, use clear communication, and implement robust scheduling systems to mitigate these challenges and maintain high standards of patient care.

What is the difference between Surgical Manager vs Surgical Coordinator?

AspectSurgical Manager

Required CredentialsTypically requires a healthcare management degree or related certification, with experience in surgical settings.
Work EnvironmentOversees surgical departments, manages staff, and ensures compliance with policies in hospitals or surgical centers.
Employer & Industry UsageCommonly employed in hospitals, outpatient surgical centers, and healthcare organizations.

The Surgical Manager focuses on overseeing surgical departments, managing staff, and ensuring operational efficiency. In contrast, the Surgical Coordinator handles scheduling surgeries, coordinating between departments, and managing patient flow. While both roles require healthcare knowledge, the Surgical Manager has broader managerial responsibilities, whereas the Surgical Coordinator is more involved in daily surgical logistics.

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Infographic showing various Surgical Manager job openings in Iowa as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 1% As Needed, 85% Full Time, 13% Part Time, and 1% Contract. Highlights an 81% Physical, 2% Hybrid, and 17% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $92,305 per year, or $44.4 per hour.

Assistant Nurse Manager

Jefferson County Health Center

Fairfield, IA • On-site

Full-time

Posted 11 days ago

Jefferson County Health Center rating

9.1

Company rating: 9.1 out of 10

Based on 8 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

14th of 1,064 rated hospitals

Job description

POSITION OVERVIEW:
  • Assists Medical Surgical Nurse Manager in providing leadership for planning, organizing, directing, and evaluating all the activities on Medical Surgical Unit to achieve the organization's mission, vision and values.

QUALIFICATIONS:
  • Graduate of accredited school of nursing, current Iowa license, ACLS, PALS and BCLS.
  • Mandatory Reporter per hospital policy.
  • Demonstrate strong leadership skills for a minimum of three years.
  • Assumes responsibility for professional growth and continuing education.
  • Must exhibit excellent customer service relations with patients, visitors and co-workers.
  • Computer skills required.

ACCOUNTABILITY:
Reports to Medical Surgical Nurse Manager. Has shared 24-hour responsibility with Medical Surgical Nurse Manager and accountability for planning, organizing, and coordinating staffing for patient cares on the Medical Surgical Unit
DIRECT REPORTS:
Registered Nurses, Licensed Practical Nurses, Unit Clerks, Certified Nursing Assistants and Nursing Staff Secretary
POSITION-SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS:
  • Coordinates with Medical Surgical Manager and providers in formulating departmental goals and designing, implementing, directing, monitoring, and evaluating nursing care and delivery of services in designated departments.
  • Assists in formulating department goals and participates in the review, revision, implementation, and assists in evaluation of nursing and department-specific policies and procedures.
  • Coordinates the activities of the Med Surg department intra-departmentally and
      • interdepartmentally with other service areas of the organization.
  • Meets with Medical Surgical Nurse Manager to discuss unit issues and plan unit strategies.
  • Acts as liaison between administration, providers, care team members, the patient and family members, and staff. Serves as patient advocate as necessary.
  • Facilitates and assists with daily rounding on all patients.
  • Listens to customer concerns, investigates the concerns, communicates these concerns to the appropriate staff; institutes appropriate counseling and disciplinary measures if needed.
  • Provides follow-up to customers and reports all unresolved concerns to Medical Surgical Nurse Manager or CNO.
  • Manages personnel in the most effective and cost-efficient manner.
    • Assists in recruitment, selection, transfer, training, scheduling and
    • performance management of Med Surg nursing department personnel.
    • Is visible and makes self available to staff.
    • Demonstrates clinical expertise and serves as a clinical resource to the Med Surg staff.
    • Participates in rounding on all Med Surg and other designated staff at designated times.
    • Completes follow-up to rounding and stop light reports for staff.
    • Actively participates in the development and educational needs of staff.
    • Assists in maintaining staff records, monitors staff care and documentation, completes evaluations in a timely manner which provide staff with insight into their strengths and opportunities and identifies goals for staff to work towards in the evaluation period.
    • Maintains current BCLS, PALS, and ACLS certification.
    • Assists in the development and education of new nurses through participation in student nurse clinicals and preceptorships with surrounding nursing institutions.
    • Assists in Communicating and Supporting organizational and departmental goals and initiatives to staff.
  • Supports, enforces and positively models the principles of Championship Culture.
    • Role model for staff related to dress code, call light initiative, use of managing others up
    • principles, etc.
    • Maintains a cooperative relationship among health care teams by communicating information; responding to requests; building rapport; participating in team problem-solving methods.
    • Supportive of Medical Surgical Manager, administration and the decisions made by administration.
  • Assists in achieving financial objectives in the preparation of, recommendations, and administration of Med Surg.
  • Plans, directs, and monitors quality management activities in designated departments to identify, study and address nursing care challenges.
    • Apply evidence-based healthcare practices and nursing standards.
    • Accountable for achievement of quality, safety, and customer satisfaction goals.
    • Ensures adherence to policy and standards set forth by state, federal, and health center
    • regulatory agencies.
    • Oversees delegation, completion, and submission of all reports in a timely manner.
  • Manage and enforce the information security policies and procedures to safeguard confidentiality and integrity of all organizational protected healthcare information.
  • Fill in on unit as needed.
  • Serves as a liaison between personnel, administration, providers and other departments to ensure optimal patient care.
  • Contacts may include but are not limited to co-workers, other JCHC employees, providers, public, families and patients.
  • Other duties as assigned

MANAGEMENT REQUIREMENTS:
Administrative
  • Knowledge of the policies and procedures sufficient to direct department operations
  • Assists with writing, reviewing, revising, and implementing policies and procedures
  • Disseminates information, professional knowledge to department members, and hospital staff
  • Travels to meetings to represent Jefferson County Health Center and acquire necessary information
  • Participates in the development and achievement of established hospital and divisional goals
  • Manages problems and discrepancies as they present themselves and documents appropriately
  • Investigates patient, family, provider complaints, and follows appropriate risk management and grievance process guidelines to resolve the situation
  • Is a catalyst for conforming to quality and accrediting standards
  • Remains current on regulatory compliance, educates staff, and ensures compliance in department
  • Ensures standards of behavior, operational strategies and practice efficiencies are achieved

Financial/Technical Responsibilities
  • Participates in the development of annual budgets and operates within the approved budget
  • Reviews departmental financial statements on a monthly basis
  • Safeguards the assets of JCHC by applying effective internal control practices and audits
  • Ensures JCHC's continued non-profit status by maintaining awareness of changes in the law
  • Assists with review and maintenance of charge master rates and codes
  • Implements cost management and LEAN strategies to ensure maximum efficiencies and productivity
  • Assists with selection, use, maintenance, repair of department equipment
  • Is responsible for ordering department inventory
  • Prepares internal department invoices for Accounts Payable
  • Prepares and validates statistical data in a timely manner

Personnel and Resource Management
  • Ensures that the responsibilities, authorities and accountabilities of all direct reports and appointed positions are defined and understood
  • Coordinates and participates in in-service programs, committees, and staff meetings as appropriate
  • Provides for orientation of new employees
  • Utilizes a team base approach by seeking suggestions and input from staff and colleagues
  • Assigns administrative and operational responsibilities to department members
  • Is responsible for staffing/scheduling, assuring safe and competent staffing patterns
  • Maintains required reports, records and documents appropriate information regarding patient care and employee performance
  • Conducts performance appraisals
  • Participates in team-based interviews of applicants
  • Consults with human resources regarding employee concerns in a proactive manner

Professionalism
  • Leads staff by example
  • Actively participates in professional affiliations as assigned by the CEO
  • Assumes personal responsibility for professional growth and continuing education
  • Remains informed of current and relevant trends and practices affecting healthcare
  • Exhibits excellent customer relations to patients, visitors, providers, and co-workers
  • Presents a positive/professional hospital image
  • Establishes and maintains effective and professional working relationships with employees,

policymaking bodies, third party payers, patients and the public
  • Uses discretion to retain information that is confidential
  • Applies effective communication skills and keeps lines of communication open with staff and other managers to ensure high employee morale and a professional, healthful atmosphere

Quality Management
  • Fosters an environment that values continuous quality improvement
  • Promotes initiatives in care delivery and practice that focus on patient safety
  • Coordinates the monitoring of medical and clinical activities to ensure the fulfillment of the community's needs for quality with leadership, the board, medical staff, and other personnel
  • Facilitates development and monitoring of appropriate departmental quality improvement initiatives
  • Ensures the provision of affordable and quality health care services by the acquisition, utilization, and organization of resources (human, financial, and physical)

Safety
  • Communicates safety issues and their interventions to the safety committee
  • Monitors department incident reports and conduct safety evaluations
  • Documents department minutes and in-service records on safety
  • Initiates corrective action in response to safety surveillance findings, to include equipment repair/adjustment and employee education
  • Conducts and/or participates in departmental education based on quality improvement/safety equipment safety surveillance findings
  • Communicates verbally and/or in writing to appropriate staff regarding safety issues, documenting such communication; i.e., department minutes, in-service records
  • Ensures appropriate completion of incident reports relating to the safety of the employee, patient, or visitor
  • Notifies Maintenance when new electrical equipment is integrated into department
  • Reviews, completes, and reports any notification of equipment recalls by manufacturer to the QI Manager

WORK ENVIRONMENT:
  • Works in a well-illuminated, climate-controlled environment
  • May come in contact with hazardous chemical or treatment modalities
  • Possibility exists of exposure to communicable diseases
  • Involvement in inpatient care may result in unavoidable work-related illness or injury
  • Work environment is comfortable, with minimal exposure to physical hazards
  • Moderate to loud noise environment when machines/equipment in use
  • Involvement in checking in/moving of supplies may result in unavoidable work-related injury
  • Must be constantly alert for patient/family emergency situations

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