Registered Nurse Assistant Manager Operating Room

Intermountain Health

12d•$45 - $69•Onsite

About The Position

This position assists a nurse manager in managing daily nursing activities within a nursing department, providing leadership and performing delegated management functions such as resource allocation, maintaining a safe working environment, and optimizing patient care. The role is accountable for developing departmental structure, processes, and outcome standards, typically for one unit. Duties are distributed as 60% tactical, 35% operational, and 5% strategic. Assistant managers must work in a department with more than 100 caregivers and have direct reports. Variances from established span-of-control guidelines require demonstrated program complexity and scope and iNet approval. The role has a higher level of accountability, including conducting employee evaluations, participating in hiring, and managing budget responsibilities. It supports the nurse manager in creating and maintaining an environment for clinical nursing practice; contributing to strategic planning and daily operations; allocating resources for safe, effective, and compassionate care; and supporting professional independence and collaborative decision-making. The assistant manager helps manage unit budgets and expenses, staffing, orientation, retention, employee satisfaction, training, competency verification, performance reviews, regulatory compliance, clinical program goals, and patient satisfaction. The role also models professionalism and patient care, partners with physicians, facilitates use of specialty nursing resources, supports student nurse activities, and encourages staff participation in community organizations.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in nursing (BSN) from an accredited institution.
Current Registered Nurse license in the state of practice; valid compact licenses must be transferred to the state of practice within 60 days of employment start.
Basic Life Support (BLS) certification for Healthcare Providers.
Leadership or supervisory experience.
Complete Intermountain leadership training and development courses within one year of accepting the leadership position.
Two years of clinical experience.
Experience in the area of oversight.
Specialty certification.

Responsibilities

Assist and support the nurse manager in creating and maintaining an environment in which clinical nursing is practiced.
Contribute, as delegated, to strategic planning, day-to-day operations, standards of care, interdisciplinary work, and organizational goals.
Advocate for and allocate resources to promote efficient, effective, safe, and compassionate nursing care.
Facilitate collaborative decision-making, contribute departmental perspectives to executive decisions, and keep staff informed about executive-level activities.
Assist with developing, implementing, and managing annual capital, operating, and personnel (FTE) budgets for the unit; manage expenses to meet departmental financial goals.
Model and foster professionalism and employee engagement.
Coordinate with the nurse manager to ensure adequate competent staffing, including hiring, orientation, retention, and employee satisfaction.
Ensure, as delegated, completion of new-skill training and annual competency verification through mentorship and educational opportunities.
Evaluate staff competency using performance reviews and peer reviews.
Coordinate performance and compliance with patient safety initiatives and applicable federal, state, and other regulatory and accreditation requirements.
Assist with clinical program goals and implement delegated action plans to improve performance.
Apply professional and organizational best practices to support quality patient care.
Facilitate nursing staff use of nurse practitioners, expanded-role RNs, and other specialty roles.
Work with the nurse manager to monitor and improve patient satisfaction using service metrics and national benchmarks, and develop and implement action plans.
Act as a role model for staff in all aspects of patient care delivery.
Partner with physicians at the unit level to achieve clinical, operational, and service goals.
Support the nurse manager in overseeing, organizing, and facilitating student nurse activities.
Support staff participation in community organizations, including volunteer health clinics, health fairs, and nonprofit advisory boards.