What You'll DoAs the Assistant Nurse Manager for Labor & Delivery, you'll partner with the Nurse Manager to provide clinical, operational, and professional leadership for a dynamic team caring for patients across the continuum of obstetric care. You'll serve as a visible leader, mentor, and resource while fostering a culture centered on safety, accountability, teamwork, and remarkable patient experiences.
Key responsibilities include:
- Supporting daily operations of a high-volume Labor & Delivery unit that averages 365 to 450 births each month.
- Providing leadership and clinical support for nurses caring for antepartum, intrapartum, and high-risk obstetric patients.
- Leveraging strong Labor & Delivery clinical expertise to support complex patient populations and rapidly changing patient conditions.
- Serving as a trusted mentor, coach, and resource to nursing staff, helping team members grow professionally while maintaining high standards of clinical practice.
- Fostering a positive and engaged team culture by promoting accountability, collaboration, recognition, and open communication.
- Supporting recruitment, onboarding, retention, and engagement efforts to build and sustain a high-performing team.
- Collaborating with physicians, advanced practice providers, educators, and interdisciplinary partners to deliver safe, high-quality, patient-centered care.
- Monitoring quality, safety, patient experience, and operational metrics while leading and supporting continuous improvement initiatives.
- Supporting staffing and resource management in a fast-paced environment where nurses commonly manage a two-patient assignment model.
- Participating in an on-call leadership rotation, approximately one weekend every six weeks across Women's Services. When scheduled on a holiday weekend, leaders are expected to take call coverage, while weekday holiday coverage is compensated with time off.
- Creating an environment where nurses are empowered to practice autonomously, pursue professional development opportunities, and contribute to unit and organizational goals.
This opportunity is ideal for an experienced Labor & Delivery nurse leader who thrives in a high-acuity setting, enjoys developing others, and is passionate about advancing exceptional care for women, newborns, and families at one of the area's premier maternity programs.
What We're Looking For- Education:
- 4 Year / Bachelors Degree, required.
- BSN, preferred.
- Graduate Degree, preferred
- Experience:
- Minimum of two years of clinical RN experience, preferred.
- Prior demonstrated nursing leadership, preferred.
- Licensure/Certification:
- Current RN licensure in appropriate state, required.
- NC state approved curricula for restrictive interventions (facility specific) within 3 months of hire for Emergency Departments and Behavioral Health units, required.
- Unit/Dept Specific Required Certifications.
- Additional Skills (required):
- Successful completion of generic and department-specific skills validation and competency testing. Ability to successfully complete Leader Education & Training.
Job Opening ID 193604
