Assistant Nurse Manager - Ambulatory Surgery Center Manhasset

NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island is a 591‑bed university‑affiliated medical center offering comprehensive inpatient and outpatient services. It is committed to equity and inclusion for all faculty, staff and students.

Assistant Nurse Manager – Ambulatory Surgery Center Manhasset – OR. In this role the successful candidate provides clinical leadership and management for a designated shift on a patient care unit (or clinical service in operative and ambulatory settings). The Assistant Nurse Manager supports the nurse manager in developing an environment of excellence in patient/family service, staff growth and development, and the application of 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 the 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 in 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 the nurse manager on interviews and ensures that employees are appropriately selected, on‑boarded, oriented, educated, and evaluated.
• 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 mentorship, coaching, counseling, and progressive discipline.
• 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, 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 the implementation of unit initiatives.
• Participates in the drafting of nursing and organizational policy, engaging front‑line staff and incorporating shared governance principles.
• 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.
• 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 nursing research, quality improvement, and evidence‑based practice efforts.
• Leads and supports the development of new insights to complex situations, innovative designs, and programs/processes.
• Exercises independent judgment in the course of these duties: discipline of employees including suspension and discharge, evaluation of staff, approval time‑off requests, assigning work to staff, and part of the decision‑making team…