Assistant Nurse Manager - Ambulatory Surgery Center Manhasset - Pre-op​/PACU

NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island is a 591-bed university-affiliated medical center, offering sophisticated diagnostic and therapeutic care in virtually every specialty and subspecialty of medicine and surgery.

We are a major regional healthcare resource with a deep commitment to medical education and research, offering a full complement of inpatient and outpatient services.

Assistant Nurse Manager – Ambulatory Surgery Center Manhasset – Pre‑op/PACU. The successful candidate provides clinical leadership and management for a designated shift for a patient care unit or clinical service in operative and ambulatory settings. Assists the nurse manager to develop and sustain an environment of excellence in patient/family service, staff growth and development, and to apply evidence‑based practice to improve patient care.

• Fosters a culture embedded in NYULH's tripartite mission: to serve, to teach, and to discover.
• Collaborates with interprofessional team 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 positive and productive work and care environments, founded on the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Demonstrates a steadfast commitment to engaging and meaningfully recognizing staff.
• Demonstrates a commitment to lifelong professional growth and development.
• Collaborates with nurse manager on interviews and ensures that employees are appropriately selected, on‑boarded, oriented, educated, and evaluated. Supports clinical rotations of students as part of partnerships for school affiliations.
• Evaluates the performance and assesses practice of designated personnel in a fair and transparent manner.
• Serves as role model and resource for staff. Develops and manages employees through the promotion of professional growth and development, mentoring, appreciative coaching, counseling, and progressive discipline, as appropriate, in alignment with the principles of a caring, fair, professional work environment.
• Monitors attendance of staff. Ensures appropriate staffing and skill mix to optimize patient outcomes and safety, while promoting fiscal responsibility.
• Coordinates care delivery and assignment of staff based upon identified patient care needs and clinical competency for optimal unit operation and patient outcomes.
• Assists in scheduling, payroll and integrating services across the care continuum.
• Provides direct patient care as needed to support the clinical operations of the unit.
• Provides leadership support of other unit(s) in the service.
• Holds self and others accountable for the delivery of exemplary care in a cost‑efficient manner.
• Assists with maintaining accreditation, regulatory standards, service standards and policies at the organizational, local, state and federal level.
• Communicates with clarity and integrity to build trust with all stakeholders.
• Communicates significant patient‑care issues, family concerns, safety, risk‑management concerns and critical events to leadership on duty at the time, seeks consultation and assistance when indicated, and reports to the Nurse Manager or Director in a timely manner.
• Communicates regularly with the Nurse Manager about patient safety, clinical practice, staff performance, and participates in implementation of unit initiatives.
• Participates in the drafting of nursing and organizational policy, engaging front‑line staff, incorporating the precepts of shared governance.
• Supports data collection in collaboration with the nurse manager and interprofessional team. Analyzes and utilizes data to drive practice changes that integrate quality, safety, patient experience, and productivity metrics to achieve excellence in patient and nursing outcomes.
• Assists leadership team in maintaining licenses, certifications, mandated learnings and content for unit staff.
• Fosters high‑reliability concepts within the unit/organizational structure.
• Fosters a culture of inquiry, innovation and transformation with a focus on the future.
• Participates in and fosters staff involvement in…