Assistant Nurse Manager - NICU​/Pediatrics

Description

Are you a passionate and experienced NICU/Pedes RN who is ready to take the next step in your career? Join our Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and our inpatient Pediatric Unit as an Assistant Nurse Manager
, where you'll play a vital role in supporting both of those highly skilled teams, dedicated to providing exceptional care for our tiniest and most vulnerable patients.

In this leadership role, you'll partner with the Nurse Managers to foster clinical excellence, support staff development, promote a culture of teamwork and collaboration, and ensure outstanding family-centered care.

• Full Time, exempt role located at our Riverbend Campus
• The salary range for this job opening at Peace Health is $64.55 - $96.83

Job Summary

The position is responsible for providing managerial assistance to the Nurse Manager. This position is directly accountable to the Nurse Manager and is responsible for support in the following areas: hiring; staffing and scheduling; orientation; performance assessment; budget monitoring; maintaining and establishing patient care standards; policies and procedures.

Essential Functions

• Demonstrates compassion, respect and caring while working within the scope of Registered Nurse Practice to provide individualized, safe and efficient care to patients and assistance to their families and visitors. Proactively implement measures to promote a safety climate on the unit, considering the inter-relationship of people, tools, and environment in which are is provided.
• Provide leadership, management, and communication skills to department.
• Assist Nurse Manager in planning, recommendation, and implementation of clinical service delivery. Recommend policy changes which enhance nursing ability to achieve top quartile performance.
• Assist Nurse Manager with the staff supervision, counseling and documentation of personnel actions.
• Assist Nurse Manager with the evaluation of work performance and performance assessments.
• Promote, establish and maintain open communication.
• Assist Nurse Manager with budget monitoring.
• Assist with the supervision and direction of the department Clinical Educator.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education: Degree from an Accredited School of Nursing Required (BSN REQUIRED WITHIN 6 MONTHS OF HIRE)

Experience:

• Minimum of 3 years applicable nursing experience required
• Minimum of 2 years supervisory/leadership experience in healthcare organization preferred

Credentials:

• Required:
  
  Upon Hire Basic Life Support (see below for additional requirements)
• Required:
  
  State of Oregon nursing license

Skills

• Strong problem solving, decision making and time management skills (Preferred)
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal (Preferred)
• Proficient in the use of computers including MS Office applications (Required)

Department / Location Specific Notes

Alaska:

• Fingerprint check required.

Oregon West Network

• BSN required within 6 months of hire.
• Unit certification may be required in the following areas:
  • Women's and Children's- PALS, ACLS, NRP
  • Critical Care - ACLS, TNCC, NIH
  • Emergency - ACLS, PALS, TNCC, NIHSS required within 6 months of hire
  • Medical Surgical - NIHSS
• Cath Lab Department
  - Minimum of 1 year of Cath Lab experience is required.
• SHMC RB
  - At request of Clinical Leadership, ED Assistant Nurse Manager for this specific location may be assigned the additional role of Assistant Nurse Manager for Clinical Decision Unit and will have Care Connect access to support this function.

PHSW:

• BSN required or actively enrolled in program with a targeted graduation date w/in 3 years of date of hire.
• Recent charge nurse experience within the last two years.
• ICU, Cardiovascular ICU, Neonatal ICU, Labor Delivery, Surgical Pre-op, Labor Delivery, Recovery Room, CCRT Critical Care Resource Team: ACLS required.
• Requires skills in the process of continuous adaptation.
• Ability to address generation conflict in workforce applying a philosophical understanding of servant leadership.
• Ability to adjust instructional methods to match learning styles, education and training plan and tailor environment to incorporate nursing students and faculty into the clinical unit culture.
• Ability to identify care patterns or systems thinking which leads to the most effective patient outcomes.
• Knowledge and application of tools for quality & safety (e.g., A3, 5S) and monitors patient outcome at the patient and unit level to achieve top quartile performance.
• Ability to apply interventions at…