Manager, Nursing

Medical Unite Manager Opportunity

Creating life better here starts with you. At San Juan Regional Medical Center, we're more than a healthcare provider—we're a values-driven organization dedicated to delivering exceptional care. As a team member, you help fulfill our mission to make life better here for our community.

The Medical Unite Manager provides the direction and leadership necessary for staff to attain our mission, vision, and values. This requires well-honed skills in coaching, motivating, and leading a professional team so that our patients receive personalized, high quality care.

Required behaviors:

• As you go about fulfilling this mission, your work habits and work relationships should embody SJRMC's values. These values are our culture, our identity as an organization. Sacred Trust, Personal Reverence, Thoughtful Anticipation, Team Accountability and Creative Vitality ask more of us than merely completing some list of tasks. Our values ask for a deeper level of commitment, and what is asked of us we freely give because we believe in our mission.

Required qualifications:

• BSN within five (5) years of hire
• Registered Nurse License in New Mexico
• BLS
• Demonstrates effective interpersonal skills
• Self-motivation and accountability
• Team orientation
• Basic computer skills

Preferred qualifications:

• Clinical Certification in area of specialty
• Previous Management and/or Leadership experience

Duties and responsibilities:

Financial and strategic management:

• Understands health care economics and health care public policy
• Demonstrates strong financial aptitude
• Exhibits strong business planning and project management abilities

Human resource management and leadership:

• Knowledgeable in various recruitment and interviewing techniques
• Committed to all aspects of employee development

Quality and performance improvement:

• Consistently displays a commitment to improving quality performance
• Actively participates in departmental and organizational quality initiatives
• Assures the safety of patients and staff is maintained

Relationship management and influencing behaviors:

• Exhibits effective communication and negotiation skills
• Can lead a team and crosses boundaries to facilitate collaboration
• Understands one’s values, beliefs, and attitudes and how they affect interactions with others

Shared decision-making:

• Understands the structure and process of shared governance
• Promotes and implements shared decision-making structures and processes
• Personal and professional accountability:
• Actively participants in personal and professional growth and development
• Practices and supports nursing standards and scopes of practice
• Utilizes information technology systems to support business decisions and has a strong understanding of the effect of information technology on patient care
• Each employee is responsible for implementing SJRMC’s Service Standards into their daily work:
  Safety, Courtesy, Effectiveness, and Stewardship
• Other duties as assigned

Physical demands and environmental work conditions:

• Must be able to see with corrective eyewear and hear clearly with assistance
• Must be able to walk, stand, bend, squat, climb, kneel, and twist frequently
• Must be able to lift greater than 50 pounds and push 0-300 pounds frequently
• Potential exposure to blood and bodily fluids and meets OSHA training requirements

Special demands:

• Sets limits when dealing with angry, hostile, or sometimes verbally or physically abusive patients and families in an attempt to ensure a safe, respectful environment that will support the delivery of care
• Effectively copes and strives for balance when caring for acutely ill patients and families