Assistant Nurse Manager Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Full Time
• Evenings
• Bed Management
• Clinical Operations

Responsibilities

• Creates a working environment that promotes positive employee engagement, adherence to company policies, effective communications, collaboration, innovation, optimal productivity and continuous learning. Assures that systems are in place to ensure appropriate resources and competent staff.
• Focuses and empowers the team to continuously build customer satisfaction for patients, physicians, colleagues, the community and other departments served. Engages the team to continually raising the bar in service excellence.
• Quality-Assures that implementation of standards of professional practice occurs, reviewing and revising according to protocols or as necessary to reflect changes in practice and to ensure safe, effective and efficient patient care. Continue to develop and maintain a system wide communication process with the nursing leadership throughout the system for consistent escalation. Ensures compliance with local, state, federal rules and regulations and OSHA and JCAHO standards. Consistently, with others, evaluates protocols for redesign opportunities to improve operations, reduce cost, reduce patient throughput delays, enhance service and improve performance.
• Promotes and maintains harmonious and effective relationships with nursing leadership in the evening hours throughout the system. Develops collaborative models for structured communications and strategic, program and quality initiatives.
• Provides direction and leadership to nursing team during crisis and emergency situations.
• Recognizes emergent maintenance requirements on the off shift and weekends and communicates needs to nursing leadership.
• Provides support and escalation to PTC and Atlantic Ambulance for the discharge planning needs of patients during the evening hours.
• Fosters exceptional public relations for the organization.
• Manages staffing emergencies and call outs in the evening hours for next day.
• Conducts performance Evaluations for bed planning team.
• Conducts evening collaboration with off shift managers at AHS medical centers daily.
• Supports bed planning competencies for all team members and provides re-education in the off shift.
• Anticipates potential problem situations and intervenes to offset any adverse impact on the facility/unit and/or clinical operations. Recognizes emergent maintenance requirements and delegates the communications to the needs at the facilities level.
• Identifies and implements ways to reduce and control capacity bottlenecks, as well as enhance capacity availability across the system and/or in the particular hospital. Ensures the team and leadership are aware of capacity situation.
• Reports to the Nurse Manager for Clinical Operations and escalates concerns or issues at the sites or within the team.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription Coverage (22.5 hours per week or above for full-time and part-time team members)
• Life & AD&D Insurance.
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability (with options to supplement)
• 403(b) Retirement Plan: Employer match, additional non-elective contribution
• PTO & Paid Sick Leave
• Tuition Assistance, Advancement & Academic Advising
• Parental, Adoption, Surrogacy Leave
• Backup and On-Site Childcare
• Well-Being Rewards
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Fertility Benefits, Healthy Pregnancy Program
• Flexible Spending & Commuter Accounts
• Pet, Home & Auto, Identity Theft and Legal Insurance