Assistant Nurse Manager, Delivery Room

The Assistant Nurse Manager at North Mississippi Health Services (NMMC-Tupelo) plays a critical leadership role, overseeing daily clinical operations in the nursing unit. They exhibit effective leadership skills, ensure high-quality patient care, and compliance with regulatory standards. Additionally, the role involves managing staffing levels, supporting staff development, implementing performance improvement projects, and maintaining positive customer relations in a dynamic healthcare environment.

As a manager of people, this role is responsible for supervising a team and optimizing operations within a designated department or area, ensuring productivity and effective team management.

• Action oriented
  - Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
• Customer focus
  - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
• Communicates effectively
  - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Optimizes work processes
  - Knowing the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Builds effective teams
  - Building strong identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals.
• Develops talent
  - Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals.
• Ensures accountability
  - Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.

• Coordinate and oversee the daily clinical operations for a nursing unit. Ensures that staffing levels and coverage are adequate to meet patient care and regulatory requirements.
• Serve as educator, trainer, mentor and lead for nursing staff.
• Responsible for assisting Nurse Manager with performance evaluations and maintains systems to provide regular feedback and evaluation for employees; i.e. 90-day performance evaluations, mid-year coaching sessions/evaluations, and year-end performance evaluations.
• Work closely with nursing leadership and ancillary departments to maintain a positive patient and family-centered care environment within NMHS and its affiliates.
• Work alongside clinical nurse educator to coordinate, schedule, and assist in educational classes and other training needs related to staff development.
• 24-Hour accountability for supervising and evaluating work performance in terms of patient care, unit relations, and efficiency of service; making decisions that require expert clinical judgment.
• Accountable for monitoring clinical practice, expense control, DNV readiness and facilities professional appearance.
• Oversee and approve inventory management, supply orders in accordance with system policy and procedures within limits of authority.
• Coordinate and promote staff development, quality services and mandatory in-services.

• Assist clinical nurse educator in performing chart audits and meet with employees individually to coach for improvement and continuously monitor staff.
• Assist in assessment, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting of performance improvement projects.

• Acts as a liaison between staff and other disciplines to assist in problem solving and transferring information to improve patient care.
• Acts as a clinical resource for staff in assigned areas.

• Creates and maintains good rapport within Nursing Services, ancillary departments, affiliates and other health services.
• Maintains communication with multi-disciplinary team members to provide holistic care to patient.
• Maintains availability to staff even after typical work hours and is available as needed 24 hours/day.

• Maintains and reviews educational records of assigned floor employees; include orientation competency, initial competencies, annual review, and certifications.
• Maintains updated policies and operating manuals for the unit.
• Compiles data, generates and maintains required records, reports and statistics as directed.
• Performs basic clinical audits and quality reports results to Nurse Manager, Director.
• Ensures timely…