Nurse Manager Postpartum and Special Care Nursery

About This Role

Job Title: Nurse Manager, Postpartum and Level IIA Special Care Nursery – Emerson Health

Schedule: Full Time

Pay Range: $130k-$170k Annually

Shift: Day shift

Hours: 7a-4p (Monday–Friday)

We are looking for an experienced, collaborative, and people‑focused Nurse Manager to lead our postpartum unit and Level IIA Special Care Nursery. The role provides visible leadership for postpartum care, newborn care, and specialized nursery services. The ideal leader is approachable, energetic, organized, and passionate about creating a healthy work environment where nurses feel heard, supported, and empowered.

As the Nurse Manager for Postpartum and the Level IIA Special Care Nursery, you will lead daily operations, support staff development, guide quality and safety work, and help create an exceptional experience for mothers, newborns, and families. You will partner closely with nursing leadership, labor and delivery, physicians, nurse midwives, nurse educators, lactation, respiratory therapy, pharmacy, social work, case management, and other clinical teams.

This is a hands‑on leadership role for someone who enjoys being present on the unit, solving problems in real time, coaching staff, and building strong relationships across the maternity service.

• Provide visible, accessible, and collaborative leadership for the Postpartum Unit and Level IIA Special Care Nursery.
• Promote safe, equitable, evidence‑based, and family‑centered care for mothers, newborns, and families.
• Create a positive and healthy work environment built on trust, respect, teamwork, accountability, psychological safety, and shared excellence.
• Champion shared governance and partner with the unit‑based council and frontline staff to improve clinical practice, workflows, policies, and unit priorities.
• Oversee daily operations including census, acuity, staffing, assignments, skill mix, patient flow, admissions, discharges, and transfers.
• Participate in recruitment, onboarding, retention, succession planning, and workforce development.
• Coach and develop staff through rounding, timely feedback, recognition, goal setting, annual reviews, and performance management.
• Lead quality, safety, and patient experience initiatives using data, audits, event reviews, and staff feedback.
• Support best practices in postpartum recovery, couplet care, newborn stabilization and monitoring, infant feeding, bonding, family education, discharge readiness, and connection to community resources.
• Ensure coordinated and compassionate care for newborns requiring Special Care Nursery services, including family integration, transfer planning, and collaboration with higher level neonatal centers.
• Advance culturally responsive and inclusive care for the diverse families and communities served by Emerson Health.

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing required.
• Master’s degree in nursing, healthcare administration, or a related field preferred.

• Minimum of five years of progressive maternal newborn nursing experience required.
• Postpartum and Level II Special Care Nursery, Special Care Nursery, or comparable neonatal care experience required.
• Demonstrated clinical leadership experience required; previous formal supervisory or nurse manager experience preferred.

• Current Massachusetts registered nurse license required.
• Current BLS certification required.
• Current NRP certification required or must be obtained within three months of hire.
• National certification in maternal newborn nursing or neonatal nursing preferred.

• Strong clinical judgment and working knowledge of postpartum, newborn, and neonatal care.
• Approachable and visible leadership style.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and relationship‑building skills.
• Ability to lead shared decision making, support change, resolve conflict, and engage teams.
• Knowledge of staffing, scheduling, productivity, budgeting, and resource management.
• Ability to review quality, safety, patient experience, and workforce data and turn findings into action.

At Emerson Health, maternity care is personal. Families come to us during some of the most important moments of their lives, and our team is committed to providing care that feels safe, respectful, inclusive, and connected. The Nurse Manager for Postpartum and Level IIA Special Care Nursery will support nurses, improve systems, strengthen patient care, and help shape a maternity program that continues to grow with the community’s needs.

This is a great opportunity for a nurse leader who wants to make a real impact in maternal newborn nursing, postpartum care, neonatal care, special care nursery leadership, and family‑centered maternity services.

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