Job Description

Position Summary:
We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Assistant Nurse Manager.

In this role, the successful candidate Provides clinical leadership and management for a designated time-period (shift) for a patient care unit (or clinical service in operative and ambulatory settings), consistent with the philosophy and goals of the institution, departments of nursing, unit, or program. Assists the nurse manager to develop and sustain an environment of excellence in patient/family service, growth and development of staff, and to apply evidence-based practice to improve patient care.

Job Responsibilities:

• Fosters a culture embedded in NYULHs tripartite mission: to serve, to teach, and to discover. (AONL-Knowledge of the Health Care Environment)
• Collaborates with interprofessional team to ensure excellence in quality, patient experience, and efficiency.
• Develops positive and productive relationships across disciplines to establish strategic partnerships to achieve shared goals. (AONL-Communication & Relationship Management)
• Facilitates and supports positive and productive work and care environments, founded in the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Demonstrates a steadfast commitment to engaging and meaningfully recognizing staff. (AONL-Business Skills & Principles)
• Demonstrates a commitment to lifelong professional growth and development (AONL-Leader Within)
• Collaborates with nurse manager on interviews and ensures that employees are appropriately selected, on-boarded, oriented, educated, and evaluated. Supports clinical rotations of students as part of partnerships for school affiliations. (AONL-Business Skills & Principles)
• Evaluates the performance, and assesses practice, of designated personnel in a fair and transparent manner. (AONL-Communication & Relationship Management)
• Serves as role model and resource for staff. Develops and manages employees through the promotion of professional growth and development, mentoring, appreciative coaching, counseling, and progressive discipline, as appropriate, in alignment with the principles of a caring, fair, professional work environment. (AONL-Leader Within)
• Monitors attendance of staff. Ensures appropriate staffing and skill mix to optimize patient outcomes and safety, while promoting fiscal responsibility. (AONL-Business Skills & Principles)
• Coordinates care delivery and assignment of staff based upon identified patient care needs and clinical competency for optimal unit operation and patient outcomes.
• Assists in scheduling, payroll and integrating services across the care continuum. (AONL-Professionalism, Knowledge of the Health Care Environment)
• Provides direct patient care as needed to support the clinical operations of the unit.
• Provides leadership support of other unit(s) in the service. (AONL-Knowledge of the Health Care Environment)
• Holds self and others accountable for the delivery of exemplary care in a cost-efficient manner (AONL-Professionalism, Knowledge of the Health Care Environment)
• Assists with maintaining accreditation, regulatory standards, service standards and policies at the organizational, local, state and federal level. (AONL-Professionalism, Knowledge of the Health Care Environment)
• Communicates with clarity and integrity to build trust with all stakeholders.
• Communicates significant patient care issues, family concerns, safety, risk management concerns and critical events to leadership on duty at the time, seeks consultation and assistance when indicated, and reports to the Nurse Manager or Director in timely manner.
• Communicates regularly with the Nurse Manager about patient safety, clinical practice, staff performance, and participates in implementation of unit initiatives. (AONL-Professionalism) (AONL-Communication & Relationship Management)
• Participates in the drafting of nursing and organizational policy, engaging front-line staff, incorporating the precepts of shared governance (AONL-Professionalism, Knowledge of the Health Care Environment, Communication & Relationship Management)
• Supports data collection in collaboration with the nurse manager and interprofessional team. Analyzes and utilizes data to drive practice changes that integrate quality, safety, patient experience, and productivity metrics to achieve excellence in patient and nursing outcomes. (AONL-Knowledge of the Health Care Environment)
• Assists leadership team in maintaining licenses, certifications, mandated learnings and content for unit staff. (AONL-Leadership Within)
• Fosters high reliability concepts within the unit/organizational structure (AONL-Business Skills & Principles)
• Fosters a culture of inquiry, innovation and transformation with a focus on the future.
• Participates in and fosters staff involvement in nursing research, quality improvement, and evidence-based practice efforts.
• Leads and supports developing of new insights to complex situations, innovative designs, and programs/processes (AONL-Leadership)
• Exercise independent judgment in the course of these duties: discipline of employees including suspension and discharge, evaluation of staff, approval time off requests, assigning work to staff, part of the decision making team regarding hiring staff.

Minimum Qualifications:
To qualify you must have a Current Registered Professional Nurse licensure in New York State,
Baccalaureate degree in Nursing,
2 Years experience required,
Clinical certification in the patient population served or nurse leader certification
Ability to apply nursing process toward achievement of specific outcomes in an organized fashion to address patient/family satisfaction and quality indicators,
Evidence of excellent communication (both oral and written), interpersonal, organization, critical thinking, problem solving, and leadership skills,
Basic Life Support Certification through the American Heart Association,
Physical stamina, manual, dexterity, visual and aural acuity to perform responsibilities. Required to handle and move reasonably heavy weight..

Required Licenses: Registered Nurse License-NYS, Basic Life Support Cert

Preferred Qualifications:
Master's degree in nursing or health-related area
Two or more years of clinical practice in the care of the patient population served.

Qualified candidates must be able to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization.