Assistant Nurse Manager - Ambulatory Surgery Center Manhasset

NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island

NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island is a 591-bed university-affiliated medical center that offers sophisticated diagnostic and therapeutic care across virtually every specialty and subspecialty of medicine and surgery. It is a major regional healthcare resource dedicated to medical education and research, providing a full complement of inpatient and outpatient services. Equity and inclusion are fundamental values; the institution strives to create a place where faculty, staff, and students of all identities can thrive.

Assisting Nurse Manager – Ambulatory Surgery Center, Manhasset OR. The successful candidate will provide clinical leadership and management for a designated shift within the patient care unit, collaborate with the nurse manager to develop an environment of excellence in patient/family service, staff growth, and evidence-based practice, and support continued professional development.

• Foster a culture aligned with NYULH’s tripartite mission of serving, teaching, and discovering.
• Collaborate with the interprofessional team to ensure excellence in quality, patient experience, and efficiency.
• Develop positive and productive relationships across disciplines to establish strategic partnerships and achieve shared goals.
• Facilitate and support positive work environments grounded in diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Demonstrate a commitment to staff engagement and recognition.
• Show dedication to lifelong professional growth and development.
• Collaborate with the nurse manager on hiring, onboarding, orientation, education, evaluation, and support clinical rotations for students.
• Evaluate staff performance fairly and transparently.
• Serve as a role model and resource for staff, promoting professional growth through coaching, counseling, and appropriate discipline.
• Monitor staff attendance and ensure appropriate staffing levels and skill mix to optimize patient outcomes and fiscal responsibility.
• Coordinate care delivery and staff assignment based on patient needs and clinical competency.
• Assist with scheduling, payroll, and integration of services across the care continuum.
• Provide direct patient care as needed to support unit operations.
• Lead other units within the service as needed.
• Hold self and others accountable for delivering exemplary, cost‑efficient care.
• Assist with maintaining accreditation, regulatory standards, service standards, and policies at all relevant levels.
• Communicate with clarity and integrity to build trust with stakeholders.
• Report significant patient care issues, family concerns, safety, risk management, and critical events to leadership in a timely manner.
• Communicate regularly with the Nurse Manager about patient safety, clinical practice, and staff performance, and participate in unit initiatives.
• Participate in drafting nursing and organizational policy, engaging frontline staff and applying shared governance principles.
• Support data collection, analysis, and utilization to drive practice changes that integrate quality, safety, patient experience, and productivity metrics.
• Assist the leadership team in maintaining staff licenses, certifications, and required trainings.
• Promote high reliability concepts within the unit and organization.
• Encourage a culture of inquiry, innovation, and transformation focused on the future.
• Support staff involvement in nursing research, quality improvement, and evidence-based practice initiatives.
• Lead the development of new insights, designs, and programs/processes.
• Exercise independent judgment in employee discipline, evaluation, time‑off approvals, working assignments, and hiring decisions.

• Current Registered Professional Nurse licensure in New York State.
• Baccalaureate degree in Nursing.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience.
• Clinical certification in the patient population served or nurse leader certification.
• Ability to apply the nursing process to achieve specific outcomes, addressing patient/family satisfaction and quality indicators.
• Excellent oral and written communication, interpersonal, organizational, critical thinking, problem solving, and leadership skills.
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