Administrative House Manager (Nursing)

Nuvance Health • Danbury, CT

253d • $51 - $95

About The Position

The Administrative House Manager (Nursing) at Nuvance Health is responsible for managing, coordinating, and supervising the care of patients, ensuring appropriate patient placement and facilitating patient throughput based on the changing needs of the patient population. This role requires advanced patient assessment skills, including emergent rapid response and monitoring critically ill patients. The manager will work to ensure the highest level of clinical practice is maintained to deliver safe, effective, and appropriate patient care, while also providing leadership and support to staff across various departments.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required for those hired after July 2011.
• 3 years of job-related experience.
• Strong leadership and critical thinking skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent decision-making skills to resolve organizational and patient care issues.
• Flexibility to meet the needs of the organization.

Nice To Haves

• ACLS certification
• PALS certification
• TNCC certification

Responsibilities

• Provides leadership skills in a knowledgeable, consistent and continuous manner that fosters collaboration with co-workers, teamwork, communication, respect for others, and accountability both within and across departments.
• Assesses and monitors critically ill patients, and facilitates throughput to varying levels of care as patient conditions require including the transporting of patients.
• Provides clinical consultation to staff in all departments for clinical critical thinking and clinical support for patient care.
• Responds to all emergency calls, codes, and alerts within the hospital and directs and organizes the process to achieve the optimum patient outcome.
• Provides support for the vascular access needs of the patients.
• Responsible for evaluation and development of all employees to include hiring, counseling and termination.
• Ensures that the highest level of clinical practice is maintained to deliver safe, effective and appropriate patient care.
• Evaluates patient satisfaction and implements improvement interventions as indicated.
• Develops unit goals and objectives in alignment with the organization mission and goals.
• Manages patient throughput as it relates to patient placement, aligning of competent resources and timely and effective turnover.
• Responsible for all clinical functions of the organization.
• Plans and projects staffing for the next shift utilizing unit staffing grids, director's input and assessment of unit acuity and activity.
• Communicates effectively across the organization regarding operational, clinical and risk management issues.
• Fulfills all compliance responsibilities related to the position.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Nursing and Residential Care Facilities
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree