Assistant Unit Manager, Pre-Admission Center, Full-Time, Days

MarinHealth • Greenbrae, CA

61d • $73 - $109

About The Position

Are you looking for a place where you are empowered to bring innovation to reality? Join MarinHealth, an integrated, independent healthcare system with deep roots throughout the North Bay. With a world-class physician and clinical team, an affiliation with UCSF Health, an ever-expanding network of clinics, and a new state-of-the-art hospital, MarinHealth is growing quickly. MarinHealth comprises MarinHealth Medical Center, a 327-bed hospital in Greenbrae, and 55 primary care and specialty clinics in Marin, Sonoma, and Napa Counties. We attract healthcare’s most talented trailblazers who appreciate having the best of both worlds: the pioneering medicine of an academic medical center combined with an independent hospital's personalized, caring touch. MarinHealth is already realizing the benefits of impressive growth and has consistently earned high praise and accolades, including being Named One of the Top 250 Hospitals Nationwide by Healthgrades, receiving a 5-star Ranking for Overall Hospital Quality from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and being named the Best Hospital in San Francisco/Marin by Bay Area Parent, among others. The Assistant Unit Manager (AUM) is a frontline manager that directs staff to assure a safe patient centered environment, is a member of the clinical team and serves as a supervisor, coach, resource and support to the direct patient care Registered Nurse (RN). The AUM utilizes discretion and independent judgment in providing supervision and oversight of a team of licensed and unlicensed nursing personnel during an assigned shift. Essentials of the role are: 1. Is part of and collaborates with the leadership team (Manager, Director, Administrative Nursing Supervisor and other AUMs) to ensure continuity of care is provided from shift-to-shift 2. Serves as a resource to staff 3. Role model and provides a positive influence to facilitate changes 4. Utilizes interpersonal skills to maximize customer service in a manner that supports excellence in patient experience, evidence based safe patient care, and professionalism 5. Contributes to a work environment of caring and cooperation among a culturally diverse workforce and patient population

Requirements

• Current California State license as a Registered Nurse
• BSN required; BSN within 5 years for qualified internal candidates
• BLS certification
• ACLS certification in monitored areas
• Must meet minimum CNII requirements
• Two years (or one year if MSN degree), 0.8 FTE to full time of demonstrated direct patient care experience in which the level of responsibility has been expanded (by request or assignment), with at least one year concurrent experience in appropriate clinical care area, necessary in order to gain full knowledge of and advanced skill in nursing care techniques and methods, as well as unit staffing and operations
• Registered Nurse Required at hire
• Basic Life Support Required at hire
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support Required at hire
• Integrative Agitation Management (IAM) Required within 30 days of hire
• Interpersonal skills necessary to provide effective leadership for unit personnel including: demonstrated skill in fostering a cooperative, team-focused working environment, conflict management, maintenance of effective communication, intra and interdepartmentally (inclusive of physicians); ability to instruct and comfort patients and their families.
• Analytical skills necessary to organize and assist in oversight of unit activities, prepare nursing care plans, implement effective nursing care and develop solutions to difficult unit administration and patient care problems.
• Recent performance must be absent of any disciplinary actions for a minimum of one year.

Responsibilities

• Is part of and collaborates with the leadership team (Manager, Director, Administrative Nursing Supervisor and other AUMs) to ensure continuity of care is provided from shift-to-shift
• Serves as a resource to staff
• Role model and provides a positive influence to facilitate changes
• Utilizes interpersonal skills to maximize customer service in a manner that supports excellence in patient experience, evidence based safe patient care, and professionalism
• Contributes to a work environment of caring and cooperation among a culturally diverse workforce and patient population

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees