Dep Dir, Nursing

NYC Health + Hospitals/Carter is a state-of-the-art facility with a 4-Star CMS Quality Rating, equipped with 164-bed Skilled Nursing Facility and 201-bed Long-Term Acute Care Hospital (LTACH) based in Harlem. Carter excels at providing quality medical, sub-acute, rehabilitative, and long-term specialty services for individuals in need of medically-complex care like ventilator weaning and onsite-dialysis. Every employee takes a person-centered approach that exemplifies our ICARE values (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence) through empathic communication and partnership.

NYC Health + Hospitals/Carter is a state-of-the-art facility with a 4-Star CMS Quality Rating, equipped with 164-bed Skilled Nursing Facility and 201-bed Long-Term Acute Care Hospital (LTACH) based in Harlem. Carter excels at providing quality medical, sub-acute, rehabilitative, and long-term specialty services for individuals in need of medically-complex care like ventilator weaning and onsite-dialysis. Every employee takes a person-centered approach that exemplifies our ICARE values (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence) through empathic communication and partnerships between all persons.

From more than 600 Nursing Homes in New York, Carter ranks #4 in Newsweek’s Best Nursing Homes in New York
2026; and also received a high-performance rating for Long-Term Care and Short-term Rehabilitation from U.S. News & World Report’s Best Nursing Homes in America 2026. In 2025, Carter was awarded the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Pathway to Excellence with Distinction Award, the nation’s first long‑term facility to receive it.

At NYC Health + Hospitals, our mission is to deliver high quality care health services, without exception. Every employee takes a person-centered approach that exemplifies the ICARE values (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence) through empathic communication and partnerships between all persons.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

Under the directions of the Director of Nursing, with the broadest scope for the exercise of independent initiative and judgment, is involved in planning, organizing, directing coordinating and evaluating the nursing services for Skilled Nursing Facility. Assumes the responsibility of day to day operation of Nursing Services in the absence of DON.

• In the absence of the Nursing Director, assumes direct responsibility for the twenty-four (24) hour operation and function of the nursing department.
• Prepares a report to the Director of Nursing on all administrative problems in connection with staff and patient management as required.
• Liaison for residents, staff and families for identified concerns.
• Performs all work in an accurate, consistent and diligent manner.
• Completes work according to procedures and standards, including the use of appropriate resources.
• Consistently monitors the details and quality of own and other’s work.
• Demonstrates accountability in one’s work, including following through on delegated assignments and/or on pending feedback.
• Seeks guidance and/or clarification when necessary to carry out assignments.
• Aids in counseling sessions for nursing staff. Spot checks attendance of employees and reviews their attendance regularly.
• Assesses nursing services by making rounds, conducting chart review and evaluating patient care as needed.
• Participates in a system of continuing evaluation of nursing services.
• Participates in implementing an effective system of clinical and administrative nursing records and reports.
• Updates and maintains required manuals, and participates in research projects as applicable.
• Participates in operating and procedural committees as signed.…