Assistant Director, Nursing

NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan is the community hospital of choice for residents of East Harlem, northern Manhattan, and neighboring communities. The hospital provides culturally-sensitive care in a welcoming and hospitable setting, emphasizing primary care medicine and utilizing the latest advances in medical science. Metropolitan delivers high quality health services with compassion, dignity, and respect to all, without exception. Since its founding in 1875, the hospital has been affiliated with New York Medical College, representing the oldest partnership between a hospital and a private medical school in the United States. Metropolitan is a part of the NYC Health + Hospitals, the largest municipal hospital and health care system in the country.

At NYC Health + Hospitals, our mission is to deliver high quality care health services, without exception. Every employee takes a person-centered approach that exemplifies the ICARE values (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence) through empathic communication and partnerships between all persons.

Work Shifts

8:00 A.M - 4:00 P.M

Job Description
1. Incorporates knowledge of cultural differences though effective instructional interactions.
2. Comprehends principles of adult learning and incorporates them formal and informal educational activities.
3. Remain aware of current issues/trends in healthcare and translates them to the clinical team.
4. Maintain and model !CARE values (integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Resect and Excellence)
5. Maintains "state of the art" management/professional knowledge, credentials and skillset.
6. Functions in a way characterized by the confirming to technical and ethical standards.
7. Exhibits a courteous, conscientious and businesslike manner when interacting with all stakeholders.
8. Shows commitment to professionalism and excellence.
9. Provides leadership by satisfactorily managing relationships with the among customers (patient/Client, medical staff, volunteers, vendors, colleagues)
10. Demonstrates a capacity for accountability.
11. Is able to render decisions fairly and equitably; in a timely manner
12. Articulates the organization's vision in understandable terms and is able to model the organization's vision.
13. Supports all appropriate hospital programs, including mandatories.
14. Develops goals, and objectives and establishes plan to accomplish responsibilities.
15. Determines sources of conflict and responds timely to achieving a resolution.
16. Embraces cultural competence and incorporates the same in the daily team activities.
17. Prioritizes activities, follows through, and meals deadlines.
18. Skillfully and even handedly administers the human resources process (hiring, training evaluating, developing, coaching and discipline) as related to the agency's policies and procedures.

Minimum Qualifications
1. Licensed and currently registered to practice as a professional nurse in New York State, plus (2) or (3), below.
2. Masters Degree in Nursing Administration, Education, Clinical Specialty or equivalent field and five years of satisfactory nursing experience, of which three years shall have been in a supervisory or teaching capacity; or a Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing and six years of satisfactory nursing experience, four years of which shall have been in a supervisory or teaching capacity.
3. A satisfactory equivalent of education and experience. However, all candidates must be licensed and currently registered to practice as a Professional Nurse in New York State.