Assistant Nurse Manager- Full Time, Days, Maternity, 8A-4P, Pompton Plains NJ

Atlantic Health System • Pequannock Township, NJ

5d • $50 - $88 • Hybrid

About The Position

This hybrid role integrates clinical leadership, staff development, operational oversight, and quality improvement to ensure exceptional maternal and neonatal care while fostering staff competence, engagement, and professional growth. The Assistant Nurse Manager is responsible for promoting and restoring patient's health by developing day-to-day management and long-term planning of the patient care, directing and developing staff, collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary professional staffs and providing physical and psychological support to patients, friends, and families.

Requirements

• Maternity Unit Assistant RN Manager / Perinatal Nurse Educator

Responsibilities

• Identifies patient service requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual patients and other persons in a position to understand service requirements.
• Maintains nursing operations by initiating, coordinating, and enforcing program, operational, and personnel policies and procedures.
• Assures quality of care by developing and interpreting hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care.
• Supports daily unit operations through staffing coordination, patient flow management, resource allocation, scheduling oversight, and operational decision-making in collaboration with the Nurse Manager.
• Maintains and supports nursing staff through recruitment, onboarding, orientation, competency validation, education, mentoring, coaching, and performance management.
• Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families and promoting patient's independence by establishing patient care goals and providing information to patients and health care team by answering questions and requests.
• Serves as a leadership resource for clinical staff by addressing operational concerns, patient care issues, conflict resolution, and escalation of clinical situations as needed.
• Participates in staffing, scheduling, budgeting, productivity monitoring, and performance improvement initiatives to support departmental goals and operational efficiency.
• Supports departmental objectives related to quality, patient safety, patient experience, employee engagement, and professional practice.
• Coordinates orientation programs, onboarding activities, annual competencies, and educational initiatives for nursing and support staff.
• Develops, implements, and evaluates educational programs based on evidence-based practice, regulatory requirements, organizational priorities, and identified learning needs.
• Leads simulation training, mock drills, emergency preparedness exercises, and interdisciplinary education related to maternal and neonatal emergencies.
• Serves as a mentor, preceptor, and clinical resource for new and experienced staff, promoting professional growth, clinical excellence, and specialty certification.
• Protects patients and employees by supporting infection prevention practices, medication safety initiatives, controlled substance regulations, and compliance with organizational policies and procedures.
• Maintains documentation of patient care services by auditing patient and department records and maintains patient confidence by monitoring confidential information processing.
• Achieves financial objectives and ensures emergency equipment availability/nursing supplies and completing preventive maintenance requirements.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge and maintains a cooperative relationship among health care teams.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription Coverage (22.5 hours per week or above for full-time and part-time team members)
• Life & AD&D Insurance.
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability (with options to supplement)
• 403(b) Retirement Plan: Employer match, additional non-elective contribution
• PTO & Paid Sick Leave
• Tuition Assistance, Advancement & Academic Advising
• Parental, Adoption, Surrogacy Leave
• Backup and On-Site Childcare
• Well-Being Rewards
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Fertility Benefits, Healthy Pregnancy Program
• Flexible Spending & Commuter Accounts
• Pet, Home & Auto, Identity Theft and Legal Insurance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed