Assistant Nurse Manager, Pediatric ICU, Evening Shift

Assistant Nurse Manager, Pediatric ICU, Evening Shift

NYU Langone Health is a fully integrated health system that consistently achieves the best patient outcomes through rigorous focus on quality. We invite applicants for the Assistant Nurse Manager, Pediatric ICU, Evening Shift to join our exceptional team of clinicians, educators, and researchers.

The Assistant Nurse Manager provides clinical leadership and management for a designated time‑period (shift) for a patient care unit, supporting the Nurse Manager in achieving excellence in patient/family service, staff development, and evidence‑based practice.

• Fosters a culture embedded in NYU Langone’s tripartite mission: to serve, to teach, and to discover.
• Collaborates with interprofessional teams to ensure excellence in quality, patient experience, and efficiency.
• Develops positive and productive relationships across disciplines to establish strategic partnerships to achieve shared goals.
• Facilitates and supports a work and care environment founded on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Demonstrates a steadfast commitment to engaging and meaningfully recognizing staff.
• Shows a commitment to lifelong professional growth and development.
• Collaborates with the Nurse Manager on interviews and ensures employees are appropriately selected, on‑boarded, oriented, educated, and evaluated.
• Evaluates the performance and practice of designated personnel in a fair and transparent manner.
• Serves as role model and resource for staff, developing and managing employees through coaching, counseling, and progressive discipline.
• Monitors staff attendance and ensures appropriate staffing and skill mix to optimize patient outcomes and safety.
• Coordinates care delivery and assignment of staff based on patient needs and clinical competency.
• Assists in scheduling, payroll, and integrating services across the care continuum.
• Provides direct patient care as needed to support unit operations.
• Supports other unit(s) in the service.
• Holds self and others accountable for delivering exemplary care in a cost‑efficient manner.
• Assists with maintaining accreditation, regulatory standards, service standards, and policies at all levels.
• Communicates with clarity and integrity to build trust with stakeholders.
• Reports significant patient care issues, family concerns, safety, risk management concerns, and critical events to leadership in a timely manner.
• Participates in the drafting of nursing and organizational policy.
• Supports data collection and uses analysis to drive practice changes that integrate quality, safety, patient experience, and productivity metrics.
• Assists the leadership team in maintaining licenses, certifications, mandated learning, and content for unit staff.
• Fosters high reliability concepts within the unit/organization structure.
• Fosters a culture of inquiry, innovation, and transformation with a focus on the future.
• Participates in and fosters staff involvement in nursing research, quality improvement, and evidence‑based practice efforts.
• Leads and supports the development of new insights, designs, and programs for complex situations.
• Exercises independent judgment in the course of duties, including discipline of employees, evaluation of staff, approval of time‑off requests, assignment of work, and decision‑making regarding hiring staff.

• Current Registered Professional Nurse licensure in New York State.
• Baccalaureate degree in Nursing.
• Two years of nursing experience.
• Certification in nursing leadership required upon eligibility.
• Ability to apply nursing process toward achievement of specific outcomes.
• Evidence of excellent oral and written communication, interpersonal, organizational, critical thinking, problem‑solving, and leadership skills.
• Basic Life Support certification through the American Heart Association.
• Physical stamina, manual dexterity, visual and aural acuity to perform responsibilities; ability to handle and move reasonably heavy weight.

• Master's degree in nursing or health‑related area.
• Two or more years of clinical practice in the care of the patient population served.
• Strong communication…