Nurse Manager, Ambulatory Surgery Center

Position Summary

We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Nurse Manager of our brand‑new Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC). This leadership role is accountable to the Senior Director of Perioperative Services at NYU Langone‑Brooklyn. A successful candidate will oversee nursing teams in the OR and pre/post at the ASC, including opening the ASC with staffing and workflow implementation. Strong people‑leadership skills are essential.

In this role, the successful candidate provides clinical leadership and management of designated care area(s) on a twenty‑four‑hour basis, consistent with the philosophy, goals, and mission of NYU Langone Health. The candidate assumes responsibility and accountability for all facets of nursing practice and performance within that area, meeting all pertinent organizational goals and targets. The candidate develops, fosters, and sustains an environment of excellence in patient and family service, staff growth and development, quality nursing care, and staff engagement and satisfaction.

• Fosters a culture embedded in NYU’s tripartite mission: to serve, to teach, and to discover.
• Collaborates with inter‑professional 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.
• Fosters a positive and productive work and care environment founded on diversity, equity, and inclusion to attract and retain staff; demonstrates a steadfast commitment to engaging and recognizing staff.
• Demonstrates commitment to lifelong professional growth and development.
• Conducts interviews, hires, develops, and evaluates departmental leadership from orientation through termination, when necessary, according to established standards.
• Evaluates performance of personnel fairly and transparently.
• Serves as a role model by demonstrating visibility, accessibility, and effective communication that conveys advocacy and support for staff and leadership.
• Participates in establishing the strategic area’s financial plan and utilizes data to make strategic recommendations to senior leadership; establishes the operational and capital budgets for the area, monitoring expenses and evaluating outcomes.
• Coordinates care delivery using labor productivity data to plan and evaluate staffing patterns, discharge and/or volume targets, and assists clinical leaders in validating staffing patterns.
• Holds self and others accountable for delivery of exemplary care in a cost‑efficient manner.
• Coordinates and facilitates activities to promote service and interdisciplinary teamwork; role models service standards in actions and communications with patients, families, staff, and other disciplines.
• Designs, implements, and evaluates programs and activities to ensure compliance with accreditation, regulatory standards, service standards, and policies at the organizational, local, state, and federal level.
• Participates in the development, approval, and implementation of nursing and organizational policy, incorporating shared governance principles.
• Collects, analyzes, and utilizes data to drive practice changes that integrate quality, safety, patient experience, and productivity metrics to achieve excellence in outcomes.
• Participates in and fosters staff involvement in nursing research and evidence‑based practice efforts.
• Ensures staff compliance with maintaining licenses, certifications, and mandated learnings and content.
• Develops positive and productive relationships across disciplines to establish strategic partnerships to achieve shared goals.
• Fosters high‑reliability concepts within the unit/organizational structure.
• Communicates with clarity and integrity to build trust with all stakeholders.
• Fosters a culture of inquiry, innovation, and transformation focused on the future.
• Leads and supports the development of new insights to complex situations, innovative designs, and programs/processes.

This role requires flexibility to work across a variety of surgical specialties and peri‑operative care areas, including the ambulatory…