Assistant Nurse Manager - Surgical Telemetry, Full-Time, Nights

NYU Langone Health • Mineola, NY

1d • $151,050 - $151,050 • Onsite

About The Position

NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island is a 591-bed university-affiliated medical center offering sophisticated diagnostic and therapeutic care across numerous medical and surgical specialties. As a major regional healthcare resource, it is deeply committed to medical education and research, providing a comprehensive range of inpatient and outpatient services. NYU Langone Health prioritizes equity and inclusion, aiming to create an environment where talented faculty, staff, and students of all identities can thrive, valuing individual skills, ideas, and knowledge.

The Assistant Nurse Manager - Surgical Telemetry, Full-Time, Nights position involves providing clinical leadership and management for a patient care unit during a designated shift. This role supports the Nurse Manager in fostering an environment of excellence in patient/family service, staff development, and the application of evidence-based practice to enhance patient care.

Requirements

• 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

Nice To Haves

• 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

Responsibilities

• Fosters a culture embedded in NYULH's tripartite mission: to serve, to teach, and to discover.
• Collaborates with the interprofessional team to ensure excellence in quality, patient experience, and efficiency.
• Develops positive and productive relationships across disciplines to establish strategic partnerships and achieve shared goals.
• 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.
• Demonstrates a commitment to lifelong professional growth and development.
• Collaborates with the nurse manager on interviews, ensuring employees are appropriately selected, on-boarded, oriented, educated, and evaluated.
• Supports clinical rotations of students as part of partnerships for school affiliations.
• Evaluates the performance and assesses the practice of designated personnel in a fair and transparent manner.
• Serves as a 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.
• Monitors attendance of staff.
• Ensures appropriate staffing and skill mix to optimize patient outcomes and safety, while promoting fiscal responsibility.
• 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.
• Provides direct patient care as needed to support the clinical operations of the unit.
• Provides leadership support of other unit(s) in the service.
• Holds self and others accountable for the delivery of exemplary care in a cost-efficient manner.
• Assists with maintaining accreditation, regulatory standards, service standards, and policies at the organizational, local, state, and federal level.
• 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, seeks consultation and assistance when indicated, and reports to the Nurse Manager or Director in a timely manner.
• Communicates regularly with the Nurse Manager about patient safety, clinical practice, staff performance, and participates in the implementation of unit initiatives.
• Participates in the drafting of nursing and organizational policy, engaging front-line staff, and incorporating the precepts of shared governance.
• 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.
• Assists the leadership team in maintaining licenses, certifications, mandated learnings, and content for unit staff.
• Fosters high reliability concepts within the unit/organizational structure.
• 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 the development of new insights to complex situations, innovative designs, and programs/processes.
• Exercises independent judgment in the course of these duties: discipline of employees including suspension and discharge, evaluation of staff, approval of time off requests, assigning work to staff, and is part of the decision-making team regarding hiring staff.

Benefits

• Financial security benefits
• Generous time-off program
• Employee resources groups for peer support
• Holistic employee wellness program focusing on physical, mental, nutritional, sleep, social, financial, and preventive care

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level