Assistant Nurse Manager-Perioperative Services
About The Position
The Assistant Nurse Manager has responsibility, authority, and accountability for the delivery of patient care within the defined patient care area on the assigned primary shift of work. The Assistant Nurse Manager contributes to the goal setting and the defining of opportunities for each patient care area for which they are responsible that is consistent with the organizational goals and strategic nursing initiatives. The Assistant Nurse Manager mentors staff for the development of a patient care team that demonstrates nursing leadership, professionalism, competency, and quality. The Assistant Nurse Manager is collegial and customer oriented to patients, family, peers, and physicians, as throughput and care coordination is achieved. The Assistant Nurse Manager is an expert in the care of patients within the unit of specialty. QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily as outlined in the attached annual competency assessment. Where feasible, reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the job’s essential functions.
Requirements
- A Baccalaureate in nursing degree is required, a Master’s of Nursing Preferred.
- Must hold current New York State Registered Nurse registration or eligible for licensure in New York State.
- Able to communicate effectively at all levels within the organization and with external customers and agencies.
- Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for decisions.
- Utilizes problem-solving and decision making skills.
- Ability to identify problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
- Ability to improve job performance through continuing education.
- The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to probe, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls, reach with hands and arms, and speak and hear.
- The employee is occasionally required to sit and stoop, kneel, or crouch.
- The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
- This job requires as an essential function that the majority of the time the employee be physically on-site as the work cannot be done from a remote location.
Nice To Haves
- Management experience preferred.
- Creates a collegial and collaborative environment among all members of the healthcare team.
- Articulates clear expectations with staff and members of the patient care team.
- Coaches and mentors staff.
Responsibilities
- Delivery of patient care within the defined patient care area
- Goal setting and defining opportunities for each patient care area
- Mentoring staff for the development of a patient care team
- Demonstrates nursing leadership, professionalism, competency, and quality
- Collegial and customer oriented to patients, family, peers, and physicians
- Expert in the care of patients within the unit of specialty
Benefits
- Excellent health care coverage with no copay at Albany Medical Center providers
- A wide array of services and programs to support emotional, physical, and mental wellbeing
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
