Nursing Administrator-Behavioral Health-Rivington-Full Time-Nights

Mount Sinai Health Systems•New York, NY

5d•$104,995 - $171,008•Onsite

About The Position

The Nursing Administrator is a registered professional nurse with progressive administrative experience who leads hospital operations on assigned evening, night, weekend, and holiday shifts. The role supports the CNO, Nursing Directors, Nurse Managers, Assistant Nurse Managers, and hospital/site leadership in managing clinical units and specialty areas, with responsibility for hospital and patient care services. As the organization’s senior administrative representative during those shifts, the Nursing Administrator ensures safe, efficient, and effective patient care while promoting operational excellence, regulatory compliance, and an exceptional experience for patients and staff. The position provides clinical and administrative oversight, leads nursing practice and patient-experience efforts, supports quality and safety initiatives, manages unit operations and staffing, and develops staff through coaching, mentoring, shared decision-making, and professional role modeling. The administrator also responds to hospital emergencies and may serve as incident commander during evening/night shifts and weekends/holidays.

Requirements

Master's degree in Nursing or a healthcare-related field.
Minimum of 3–5 years of clinical nursing experience.
Clinical competence relevant to the assigned area of nursing practice.
Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification through the American Heart Association.

Nice To Haves

Prior Charge Nurse and/or supervisory experience.

Responsibilities

Lead nursing practice according to the Professional Practice Model of Relationship Centered Care and the Modified Primary Nursing Care Delivery Model.
Model, integrate, validate, and oversee Purposeful Hourly Rounding, assess staff competency, and provide feedback.
Communicate patient-experience and staff-engagement information to staff and the interdisciplinary healthcare team, and support action planning.
Collaborate with physician dyads and escalate concerns as appropriate.
Address patient concerns promptly and initiate service recovery for patients and families.
Model Mount Sinai Relationship Centered Care practices, including admission welcome, bedside shift report, HELP, AM/PM care, five-minute sit-downs, purposeful hourly rounding, medication review, discharge wrap-up, and MD/RN unit collaboration.
Ensure shift-start staff huddles identify high-risk patients, and communicate concerns identified during huddles and throughout the shift to nursing leadership.
Interpret patient-experience scores and benchmarks and empower staff to use evidence-based practices to improve patients’ perceptions of care.
Design, support, and lead a safe, therapeutic, efficient, patient-centered environment for professional practice.
Investigate practice or operational variances, participate in root-cause analysis, and implement corrective action plans.
Promote a fair and open culture for reporting errors and near misses, and lead interdisciplinary quality-improvement efforts using high-reliability principles.
Review quality and safety metrics with clinical nurses and the healthcare team, address safety hazards and practice gaps, and monitor clinical documentation and information-technology issues.
Lead staff participation in quality, safety, and mandated compliance initiatives; ensure staff competency evaluations are maintained.
Support implementation of departmental mission, vision, goals, and objectives across clinical services and patient-care units.
Oversee staffing, support services, interdisciplinary collaboration, resources, financial viability, patient-care delivery, throughput, and processes during assigned shifts.
Work with physician dyads and the healthcare team to promote patient-care and regulatory standards, including compliance with New York State Department of Health and The Joint Commission requirements.
Oversee budgets, including overtime and vacancies, in line with Mount Sinai Health System financial goals.
Provide input into staff management and retention; evaluate staff performance and mentor, coach, counsel, and discipline staff as needed.
Maintain patient and employee confidentiality and monitor the availability and maintenance of nursing equipment and supplies.
Conduct staff meetings about progress, changes, and compliance with hospital policies and procedures; recognize staff contributions to quality, safety, and compliance.
Facilitate organizational change and lead shared decision-making, shared governance, just culture, and staff engagement in councils, meetings, and initiatives.
Interpret and implement collective bargaining agreements, and respond to protests of assignment in accordance with those agreements.
Respond to hospital emergencies, escalate issues to appropriate leadership, and act as incident commander during evening/night shifts and weekends/holidays.
Support an environment of clinical excellence, organize the care environment, and model professionalism, compassion, respect, empathy, and trust.
Apply ethical principles and promote scholarship, inquiry, lifelong learning, innovation, and evidence-based practice.
Acquire and disseminate role- and specialty-related knowledge, lead shared decision-making through councils and committees, and serve as a role model and preceptor for new leadership staff and students.
Contribute to the nursing profession through leadership and participation in professional organizations.