General Information

Work Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA Work Schedule Variable 10 hour shifts including weekends and holidays Posted Date 08/18/2026 Salary Range: $ - Annually Employment Type 2 - Staff: Career Duration indifenite Job # 32510

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Take on a key leadership role within an award-winning health care system. Advance world-class nursing care in a state-of-the-art setting for the most vulnerable of patients. Expand your professional potential in a close-knit, collaborative culture. You can do all this and more at UCLA Health. 

Are you a Registered Nurse or Charge Nurse looking to start your career in nurse leadership? Then this is the opportunity for U! We have an exciting opening for a Clinical Nurse Manager in the COU/CCU at UCLA Medical Center. Reporting to the Unit Director, this is an excellent opportunity for you to grow your leadership abilities. We’re looking to you to model clinical best practices while helping to facilitate collaborative decision making and shared governance. You will establish clinical departmental goals and supervise clinical staff in order to achieve and exceed organizational objectives. You will also be responsible for collaborating with clinical educators to evaluate and develop core clinical competencies. This position involves the stewardship of human, financial, and physical resources to ensure the delivery of the highest quality care. You will enjoy a high level of autonomy while sharing 24/7 management responsibility with the Unit Director. 

Salary range: $69.16 - $163.70 hourly

Job Qualifications

We’re seeking a highly-skilled, self-motivated nursing professional with: 

• Current California RN license required 
• BSN or MSN required 
• 5 years ICU RN experience required, Cardiac ICU RN experience highly preferred
• 3 years or greater of charge RN or leadership experience as an RN required 
• BLS from the American Red Cross or American Heart Association required 
• Nursing Professional Leadership Certificate highly desirable
• Attainment of progressive leadership positions highly desirable 
• Skill in implementing appropriate nursing interventions on a consistent basis
• Ability to perform historical, physical and behavioral patient assessments 

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts an 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; or have filed an appeal of a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer.
Current/former UC employees are subject to a personnel file review.