RN Administrative Supervisor (Part Time, Rotating) Frankford-Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson University•Northeast Philadelphia, NE

19d•Onsite

About The Position

The RN Administrative Supervisor serves as a hospital-wide operational oversight leader across shifts, with a commitment to patient- and family-centered care. The role facilitates patient movement, staffing, emergency management, clinical coordination, and collaboration across departments. It plans, leads, and coordinates quality care and service from a hospital-wide perspective. During off shifts, the supervisor serves as liaison for departments without onsite leadership and collaborates with administrative directors and managers in a dynamic, multidisciplinary environment. The supervisor provides operational leadership and direction, supports clinical excellence and safe care delivery, promotes a patient-centric culture, and helps improve patient and colleague experiences. The position also partners with security and administrative leaders on workforce safety and the environment of care; collaborates with staffing coordinators on workforce deployment; and manages administrative nursing supervisor scheduling and timekeeping responsibilities. The role serves as a clinical resource on policies, procedures, patient standards, performance improvement, and risk management. It supports staff and leaders through coaching, education, professional development, and communication about operational changes. The supervisor coordinates supervisors across three campuses and promotes respect, inclusion, and diversity.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Nursing.
Three years of nursing experience.
Knowledge of patient- and family-centered practice, including conveying respect and collaborating with patients, families, and designated care partners.
Cultural awareness and ability to connect effectively with people from diverse backgrounds.
Effective communication skills, including accurately transmitting, receiving, and interpreting information and using partnership-oriented language with patients and families.
Ability to promote interdisciplinary collaboration.
Basic computer skills.
Basic Life Support (BLS), American Heart Association.
Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), American Heart Association.
Current Pennsylvania Registered Nurse (RN) license.
Ability to work one day shift and one night shift, totaling 24 hours weekly; holidays and weekends are required.
Ability to lift and carry 40–50 pounds, including pushing and pulling patients on beds or stretchers and assisting with lateral transfers.
Frequent to continuous standing and walking; patient transport may involve walking 8–10 miles per shift.
Ability to perform role-specific physical activities, which may include kneeling, bending, squatting, and performing CPR.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree.
One year of demonstrated leadership and management experience.
One year of critical care or emergency room experience.
CCRN (Adult), Direct Care Pathway, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.

Responsibilities

Interact with coworkers, visitors, and staff consistent with Jefferson’s values.
Recognize patients and their families or designated care partners and provide safe, compassionate, coordinated care that respects individual preferences, needs, and cultural beliefs and values.
Communicate with and support the interprofessional team, patients, families, and designated care partners; serve as a communication liaison for external callers.
Practice within Jefferson Health policies and procedures.
Lead and direct operational activities, including coordinating patient movement and flow across the health system and supporting placement at the appropriate level of care in collaboration with unit leadership.
Support department leaders in managing clinical excellence and safe care delivery in accordance with professional, regulatory, hospital, and department standards.
Enforce strategies for sustaining a patient-centric culture and communicate patient-experience feedback to staff.
Partner with the Nursing Leadership Team on initiatives to improve colleague experience, patient experience, and clinical excellence.
Partner with security services and administrative leaders to enforce workforce safety and environment-of-care strategies.
Collaborate with resource management staffing coordinators to deploy workforce resources optimally and review staffing deployment decisions on an ongoing basis.
Balance schedules after self-scheduling, manage vacation requests, ensure holiday requirements are met and fairly distributed, address last-minute changes due to call-offs or surges, and reconcile MyTime and MySchedule before director payroll sign-off.
Serve as a clinical resource on policies, procedures, patient standards, performance improvement, and risk management.
Communicate accurately and appropriately with nursing staff and other health professionals.
Support a culture in which staff feel appreciated, included, and valued; facilitate Department of Nursing and hospital goals and objectives; and coach leaders and staff toward continual improvement.
Lead education and professional development for the administrative nursing leadership team, including tracking mandatory education, identifying development opportunities, and ensuring licenses and certifications remain current.
Provide regular communication about operational changes and other time-sensitive information.
Coordinate administrative supervisors across all three campuses.
Promote diversity and respect coworkers, patients, and families regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religious belief, age, or disability.

Benefits

Medical insurance, including prescription coverage.
Supplemental insurance.
Dental insurance.
Vision insurance.
Life and AD&D insurance.
Short- and long-term disability coverage.
Flexible spending accounts.
Retirement plans.
Tuition assistance.
Voluntary benefits offering access to group insurance rates and discounts.
Tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full-time service or two years of part-time service.
Medical insurance, including prescription coverage, is available to all colleagues, including those working less than part-time.