Associate Clinical Manager - Operating Room Campus

Atlanti Care Regional Medical Center

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.

The Associate Nurse Manager (ANM) supports the Clinical Nurse Manager in leading day‑to‑day unit operations with a strong focus on patient throughput, staffing coordination, and frontline leadership. This role serves as a bridge between bedside nursing staff and unit leadership, ensuring safe, timely, and efficient patient care delivery. The ANM plays a key role in managing patient flow, optimizing bed utilization, reducing discharge delays, and ensuring the unit meets operational and quality targets.

• Coordinate patient flow on a shift‑to‑shift basis, ensuring timely admissions, transfers, and discharges.
• Monitor discharge planning activities to reduce order‑to‑discharge and discharge‑to‑door times.
• Partner with Care Management, Transport, Environmental Services, and ancillary departments to remove throughput barriers.
• Oversee and support nursing staff in daily operations, ensuring adherence to standards of care and regulatory requirements.
• Manage on‑shift staffing allocations, floating decisions, and surge capacity response.
• Escalate issues to appropriate leadership promptly and provide input on process improvement opportunities.
• Participate in unit‑based throughput initiatives and performance improvement projects.
• Support onboarding, orientation, and ongoing competency development of staff.
• Act as a resource nurse as needed during high‑acuity or surge situations.
• Foster and sustain a healthy work environment by modeling authentic leadership, promoting skilled communication, ensuring appropriate staffing, encouraging meaningful recognition, and engaging staff in shared decision‑making to support morale, retention, and safe patient care.

• Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing required.
• Bachelor's degree in nursing required; master's degree preferred.

• Currently licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in the State of New Jersey or current multi‑state license required.
• American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) required.
• Advanced Life Support Certification, within your specialty (ACLS, PALS, or NRP) is required within 6 months of hire or transfer. Current incumbents must obtain within 6 months, by 8/1/2026.
• Approved professional nursing certification required within 1 year of hire or transfer. Current incumbents must obtain within 1 year, by 2/1/2027.

• Emergency Room
  : 2‑4 years medical/surgical experience required; 2 years emergency room experience preferred. TNCC, ACLS, and PALS or ENPC required.
• Labor and Delivery
  : 2‑4 years labor and delivery experience required. NRP and ACLS required.
• Neonatal Intensive Care Unit / Intermediate Care Unit
  : 2‑4 years neonatal intensive care unit experience required. NRP and ACLS required.
• Mother/Baby Unit
  : 2‑4 years mother/baby experience preferred. NRP and ACLS required.
• Operating Room
  :
  Minimum 1 year medical/surgical experience desired; 1‑2 years operating room experience desired. ACLS required. CNOR preferred.
• Critical Care
  : 2‑4 years medical/surgical experience required; 1‑2 years critical care experience preferred. ACLS required. CCRN preferred.
• Medical/Surgical
  : 1‑2 years medical/surgical experience preferred. ACLS required.
• Psychiatry
  : 1‑2 years medical/surgical experience required; 1‑2 years psychiatry experience preferred. Crisis intervention experience preferred for PIP.
• Pediatrics
  : 1‑2 years medical/surgical experience required; 1‑2 years pediatric experience strongly preferred. PALS required.
• Radiology
  : 2‑4 years medical/surgical experience required; 1‑2 interventional experience preferred. Critical care experience preferred. ACLS required.
• Cath Lab
  : 1‑2 years critical care, emergency room or telemetry experience required; 1 year cath‑lab experience preferred. ACLS required.
• Trauma
  : 2‑4 years medical/surgical experience…