Assistant Nurse Manager

CommonSpirit Health•Glendale, CA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Assistant Nurse Manager (ANM) provides clinical and operational leadership support for assigned perioperative and procedural patient care areas, including Pre-Op / ACC and GI / Endoscopy services. The role is responsible for daily operations, staffing coordination, patient flow, patient care delivery, quality outcomes, regulatory readiness, and staff support across the pre-procedure, intra-procedure, post-procedure, recovery, and discharge phases of care. The ANM uses independent judgment to assign staff based on patient acuity, procedural volume, competency, licensure, sedation and recovery needs, and operational priorities. The role works closely with anesthesia, physicians, procedural staff, nursing leadership, and ancillary departments to support safe and efficient patient throughput, including add-on procedural cases across multiple procedural areas within the facility. The ANM may provide direct patient care, charge coverage, and operational support as needed and when clinically competent to do so.

Requirements

Associate Of Nursing
Minimum two (2) years of relevant RN experience in perioperative, PACU, Pre-Op/Post-Op, GI/procedural, ambulatory surgery, upon hire
Minimum one (1) year of leadership experience, upon hire
Registered Nurse: CA, upon hire
Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire
Advanced Cardiac Life Support, upon hire

Nice To Haves

Pediatric Advanced Life Support, upon hire
CAPA CPAN CGRN or other relevant perioperative/perianesthesia certification preferred

Responsibilities

Coordinates daily operations and staffing support across Pre-Op / ACC and GI procedural areas.
Supports patient throughput, recovery progression, discharge readiness, and add-on procedural workflow.
Collaborates with anesthesia, GI physicians, surgeons, nursing staff, and ancillary departments to support safe and efficient procedural operations.
Supports competency-based staffing assignments and assists with operational coverage across multiple procedural areas as needed.
Functions as a clinical and operational resource for pre-procedure, intra-procedure, post-procedure, and discharge workflows.
Participates in quality, regulatory readiness, patient safety, and departmental performance improvement activities.
Assists with incident review, patient complaints, service recovery, and operational escalation processes.
Enforces high patient care standards.
Promotes a professional practice environment that supports staff engagement, teamwork, accountability, retention, and ongoing professional development.
Prepares and directs patient-care assignments based upon patient acuity and competency of available personnel.
Thoroughly understands and monitors financial performance: Follows daily staffing targets and manages per guidelines and functions independently.
Communicates effectively with the department director and/or supervisor regarding productivity variance or staffing concerns.
Monitor staffing decisions to adhere to the established productivity standards for the department.
Accurately completes missed meal and rest period log
Collects staff scheduling requests and assists with staffing and schedule coordination in accordance with applicable CNA/CHEU bargaining unit agreements, hospital policy, patient care needs, and operational requirements.
Supports departmental goals, operational initiatives, patient care standards, and organizational priorities.
Facilitates teamwork, unit pride and follow through on assigned projects/activities.
Performs leadership rounding to support patient experience, patient safety, staff engagement, service recovery, and compliance with departmental and organizational standards.
Collaborates with physicians, anesthesia, procedural staff, and leadership to address operational concerns, support patient flow, resolve barriers to care, and escalate issues through the appropriate chain of command.
Provides on-going feedback to employees regarding performance expectations.
Works collaboratively with department director.
Assists in meeting department budget targets.
Participates in the annual evaluation of the department and leadership direction in collaboration with the Department leaders.
Conducts employee performance evaluations on a timely basis so that at least 90% are complete by the due date.
Contributes to process improvement activities demonstrating appropriate skills.
Demonstrates ability to mentor others in department to meet department goals.
Demonstrates ability to problem solve and achieve effective solutions.
Actively supports the organization's mission, philosophy and strategic plan.
Demonstrates good time management and priority setting.
Complies with safety, infection control, CHW Integrity Program, and other organizational policies. (90 day evals - department specific orientation checklists completed; annual evals - annual competency checklists completed)