Nursing Administrator-Behavioral Health-Rivington-Full Time-Nights
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 position 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 assigned shifts, the Nursing Administrator ensures safe, efficient, and effective patient care while promoting operational excellence, regulatory compliance, and a positive patient and staff experience. The role provides clinical and administrative oversight of patient care, staffing, support services, interdisciplinary collaboration, resources, and financial operations. It promotes relationship-centered care, patient experience, quality and safety, regulatory compliance, staff development, shared decision-making, and evidence-based nursing practice. The Nursing Administrator also responds to hospital emergencies and may act as incident commander during evening and night shifts and on weekends and holidays.
Requirements
- Master's degree in Nursing or a healthcare-related field.
- At least 3 years of clinical nursing experience; the posting specifies a minimum of 3–5 years.
- Current BLS certification through the American Heart Association.
- Demonstrated clinical competence relevant to the assigned area of nursing practice.
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 Care Delivery Model of Modified Primary Nursing.
- Role-model and oversee Purposeful Hourly Rounding, assess staff competency in rounding, validate that patients are rounded on, and provide feedback.
- Communicate patient experience and staff engagement information and support action plans with staff and interdisciplinary teams.
- Collaborate with physician dyads and escalate concerns as appropriate.
- Follow up on patient concerns and provide service recovery.
- Promote Mount Sinai Relationship Centered Care practices, including admission welcome, bedside shift report, HELP, AM/PM care, five-minute sit-downs, medication review, discharge wrap-up, and physician/nurse unit collaboration.
- Ensure shift-start staff huddles identify high-risk patients and communicate concerns to nursing leadership.
- Interpret patient experience scores and benchmarks, keep staff informed, and encourage evidence-based approaches to understanding patient perceptions of care.
- Design, support, and lead a safe, therapeutic, efficient, patient-centered care environment.
- Investigate practice or operational variances, participate in root cause analysis, and implement corrective action plans.
- Foster 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, address potential hazards or gaps in best practice, and maintain required staff competency evaluations and compliance.
- Support implementation of departmental missions, visions, goals, and objectives.
- Oversee staffing, support services, interdisciplinary collaboration, resources, financial viability, patient throughput, and care delivery during assigned shifts.
- Maintain compliance with regulatory mandates, including New York State Department of Health and The Joint Commission requirements.
- Manage overtime and vacancies in accordance with financial goals; provide input on staff management and retention.
- Maintain patient and employee confidentiality; evaluate staff performance and mentor, coach, counsel, or discipline staff as needed.
- Monitor the availability and maintenance of nursing equipment and supplies, and conduct staff meetings about progress, changes, and compliance.
- Recognize and reward staff participation and success in quality, safety, and compliance initiatives; facilitate organizational change and shared governance.
- Interpret and implement collective bargaining agreements, respond to protests of assignment, and discuss resolutions in unit staff meetings.
- Respond to hospital emergencies, escalate issues to appropriate leadership, and act as incident commander during evening/night shifts and weekends/holidays as required.
- Support clinical excellence, ethical decision-making, scholarship, lifelong learning, innovation, and evidence-based nursing practice.
- Lead shared decision-making through practice councils, committees, and unit or service initiatives; serve as a professional role model and preceptor for new leadership staff and students.
- Contribute to the nursing profession through leadership and participation in professional organizations.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
