Assistant Nurse Manager, Women's Services, Nights
About The Position
NYU Langone Health is hiring an Assistant Nurse Manager for its Mother/Baby service. The role provides clinical leadership and management for a designated shift in a patient care unit, consistent with the institution’s and nursing department’s philosophy and goals. The Assistant Nurse Manager supports the nurse manager in sustaining an environment of excellence in patient and family service, staff growth and development, and evidence-based practice to improve patient care. The successful candidate works with interprofessional colleagues to advance quality, patient experience, efficiency, and safe, effective unit operations. The role includes staff oversight and development, care coordination, staffing and scheduling support, policy and quality-improvement participation, and direct patient care as needed. The position exercises independent judgment in employee discipline, staff evaluation, time-off approvals, work assignments, and hiring decisions as part of a decision-making team.
Requirements
- Current Registered Professional Nurse licensure in New York State.
- Baccalaureate degree in Nursing.
- Two years of experience required.
- Clinical certification in the patient population served or nurse leader certification.
- Ability to apply the nursing process to achieve specific outcomes addressing patient and family satisfaction and quality indicators.
- Excellent oral and written communication, interpersonal, organizational, 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 the responsibilities, and ability to handle and move reasonably heavy weight.
- Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization.
- Required licenses/certifications: New York State Registered Nurse License and Basic Life Support certification.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree in nursing or a health-related area.
- Two or more years of clinical practice caring for the patient population served.
Responsibilities
- Foster a culture grounded in NYU Langone Health’s mission to serve, teach, and discover.
- Collaborate with interprofessional teams to support quality, patient experience, and efficiency.
- Build productive relationships across disciplines and support positive work and care environments founded on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Engage and recognize staff, and support professional growth and development.
- Collaborate with the nurse manager on interviewing, selecting, onboarding, orienting, educating, and evaluating employees; support student clinical rotations.
- Evaluate designated employees’ performance and practice fairly and transparently.
- Serve as a role model and resource; develop employees through mentoring, coaching, counseling, and progressive discipline as appropriate.
- Monitor staff attendance and ensure appropriate staffing and skill mix while promoting patient safety, outcomes, and fiscal responsibility.
- Coordinate care delivery and staff assignments based on patient needs and clinical competency.
- Assist with scheduling, payroll, and integration of services across the care continuum.
- Provide direct patient care as needed to support unit operations.
- Provide leadership support to other units in the service.
- Promote exemplary, cost-efficient care and help maintain accreditation, regulatory requirements, service standards, and organizational policies.
- Communicate significant patient-care issues, family concerns, safety and risk-management concerns, and critical events to appropriate leaders; escalate concerns and report to the Nurse Manager or Director in a timely manner.
- Communicate regularly with the Nurse Manager about patient safety, clinical practice, and staff performance, and participate in unit initiatives.
- Participate in drafting nursing and organizational policies, engaging frontline staff and incorporating shared governance.
- Support data collection and use analysis to guide practice changes in quality, safety, patient experience, productivity, and patient and nursing outcomes.
- Help maintain staff licenses, certifications, required learning, and unit learning content.
- Foster high-reliability practices, inquiry, innovation, transformation, nursing research, quality improvement, and evidence-based practice.
- Lead and support the development of insights, designs, programs, and processes for complex situations.
- Exercise independent judgment in employee discipline, including suspension and discharge; staff evaluation; time-off approvals; work assignments; and hiring decisions as part of the decision-making team.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and wellness package.
- Financial security benefits.
- Generous time-off program.
- Employee resource groups for peer support.
- Holistic employee wellness program covering physical, mental, nutritional, sleep, social, financial, and preventive-care well-being.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
