Associate Clinical Manager - Operating Room City Campus - Full Time

AtlantiCare•Atlantic City, NJ

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Associate Nurse Manager (ANM) supports the Clinical Nurse Manager in leading day-to-day unit operations with a strong focus on patient throughput, staffing coordination, and frontline leadership. This role serves as a bridge between bedside nursing staff and unit leadership, ensuring safe, timely, and efficient patient care delivery. The ANM plays a key role in managing patient flow, optimizing bed utilization, reducing discharge delays, and ensuring the unit meets operational and quality targets.

Requirements

Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing required.
Bachelor's degree in nursing required; master's degree preferred.
Currently licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in the State of New Jersey or current multi-state license required.
American Heart Association BLS required.
Advanced Life Support Certification, within your specialty (ACLS, PALS, or NRP) is required within 6 months of hire or transfer. Current incumbents must obtain within 6 months, by 8/1/2026.
Approved professional nursing certification required within 1 year of hire or transfer. Current incumbents must obtain within 1 year, by 2/1/2027.
Minimum 1 year medical/surgical experience desired; 1-2 years operating room experience desired.
ACLS required
1-2 years of leadership, charge nurse, or clinical operations experience strongly preferred.
Demonstrated expertise in patient flow, team leadership, and real-time problem-solving.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as leadership skills required.
Proficiency in Clinical Applications preferred at time of hire.

Nice To Haves

master's degree preferred.
CNOR preferred

Responsibilities

Coordinate patient flow on a shift-to-shift basis, ensuring timely admissions, transfers, and discharges.
Monitor discharge planning activities to reduce order-to-discharge and discharge-to-door times.
Partner with Care Management, Transport, Environmental Services, and ancillary departments to remove throughput barriers.
Oversee and support nursing staff in daily operations, ensuring adherence to standards of care and regulatory requirements.
Manage on-shift staffing allocations, floating decisions, and surge capacity response.
Escalate issues to appropriate leadership promptly and provide input on process improvement opportunities.
Participate in unit-based throughput initiatives and performance improvement projects.
Support onboarding, orientation, and ongoing competency development of staff.
Act as a resource nurse as needed during high-acuity or surge situations.
Foster and sustain a healthy work environment by modeling authentic leadership, promoting skilled communication, ensuring appropriate staffing, encouraging meaningful recognition, and engaging staff in shared decision-making to support morale, retention, and safe patient care.

Benefits

AtlantiCare offers eligible Full-time and Part-time team members the ability to participate in Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k)/403(b), Life Insurance, Disability and other supplemental benefit programs.
Generous Paid Time Off (PTO)
Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental & Vision Insurance
Retirement Plans with employer contributions
Short-Term & Long-Term Disability Coverage
Life & Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance
Tuition Reimbursement to support your educational goals
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) for healthcare and dependent care
Wellness Programs to help you thrive
Voluntary Benefits, including Pet Insurance and more