Overview
Beebe Healthcare is seeking a compassionate, experienced, and collaborative Assistant Nurse Manager to help lead our Women's & Children's Service Line. This leadership role supports a 12-bed Labor, Delivery, Recovery, and Postpartum (LDRP) unit and a 9-bed Medical-Surgical Pediatric unit, ensuring the delivery of exceptional, patient-centered care for women, newborns, children, and families.
Working closely with the Nurse Manager, physicians, and interdisciplinary teams, the Assistant Nurse Manager provides daily clinical and operational leadership while fostering a culture of safety, accountability, teamwork, and continuous improvement. This role serves as a key leadership resource for frontline staff and provides bench-strength for the Nurse Manager position.
If you are passionate about developing teams, improving patient outcomes, and advancing excellence in maternal-child healthcare, we invite you to join Beebe Healthcare.
Responsibilities
- Provide day-to-day clinical and operational leadership for the Women's & Children's Service Line.
- Assist with daily unit operations, including patient flow, staffing assignments, acuity-based scheduling, and resource allocation.
- Support staffing and patient care for Labor & Delivery, Mother-Baby, Nursery, Pediatric Med-Surg, and adult medical-surgical overflow, when appropriate.
- Collaborate with charge nurses, providers, and interdisciplinary teams to ensure safe, efficient, and high-quality patient care.
- Assist with recruitment, interviewing, onboarding, retention, and employee engagement initiatives.
- Coach, mentor, and provide performance feedback to RNs, LPNs, CNAs, and support staff.
- Support orientation, competency validation, and professional development for new graduate nurses and experienced staff.
- Lead and participate in quality improvement initiatives, regulatory readiness, audits, and evidence-based practice projects.
- Promote a culture of patient safety by encouraging reporting and resolution of safety events, near misses, and process improvement opportunities.
- Participate in patient-centered leadership rounding and service recovery to ensure an exceptional patient and family experience.
- Address patient and family concerns with professionalism, compassion, and timely follow-up.
- Serve as a communication liaison between frontline staff and nursing leadership to support organizational goals and operational excellence.
- Assist with departmental fiscal stewardship, productivity monitoring, and efficient resource utilization.
- Ensure compliance with hospital policies, accreditation standards, and regulatory requirements.
Qualifications
- Strong clinical expertise in Perinatal nursing and/or Med-Surg/Pediatrics
- Minimum of 3-5 years of acute care nursing experience, with strong preference in:
- Labor and Delivery
- Postpartum/Mother-Baby
- Newborn/Nursery care
- Pediatrics or Med-Surg experience
- Demonstrated leadership experience (charge nurse, preceptor, clinical team lead, or supervisor role).
- Leadership skills and staff engagement
- Critical thinking
- Ability to manage crisis situations effectively
- Proven ability to provide excellent customer service to patients, team members, and visitors.
- Knowledge and experience with electronic health records.
Competencies Skills
- Clinical expertise in Women's Health, Perinatal Services, and/or Pediatric Nursing
- Visible and approachable leadership style
- Staff coaching, mentoring, and professional development
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills
- Critical thinking and sound clinical judgment
- Crisis management and effective decision-making
- Quality improvement and patient safety focus
- Strong organizational and time management skills
- Ability to lead change and foster employee engagement
- Commitment to exceptional patients, family, and team member experiences
Credentials
- BLS and ACLS required
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) required
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) required
- STABLE certification required
- Intermediate or Advanced Fetal Monitoring certification preferred (or obtained within six months of hire for candidates with Basic Fetal Monitoring)
- NIH Stroke Scale Certification within six months of hire
- Specialty Certification such as RNC-OB or C-EFM strongly preferred
Education
- State of Delaware RN license
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) required
- Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) or related healthcare leadership degree preferred.
Entry
USD $87,048.00/Yr.
Max
USD $143,624.00/Yr.
