Description
This Assistant Nurse Manager role supports a nurse manager in overseeing daily nursing activities within a nursing department at Intermountain Health LDS Hospital. The position involves providing leadership and performing management functions such as resource allocation, ensuring a safe working environment, and optimising patient care. The Assistant Nurse Manager is accountable for developing departmental structure, processes, and outcome standards for one unit.
Key Responsibilities:
- Assist the nurse manager in creating and maintaining an environment for clinical nursing practice.
- Contribute to strategic planning, day-to-day operations, standards of care, and organisational goals.
- Advocate for and allocate resources to promote efficient, effective, safe, and compassionate nursing care.
- Facilitate collaborative decision-making and uphold professional independence.
- Assist with budget development, implementation, and management.
- Model and foster an environment of professionalism and employee engagement.
- Coordinate staffing, hiring, orientation, retention, and employee satisfaction.
- Ensure new skill training and ongoing competency verification.
- Evaluate staff competency through performance reviews and peer reviews.
- Coordinate performance and compliance with patient safety initiatives and regulatory bodies.
- Assist with achieving clinical program goals and implementing action plans.
- Effectively use professional and organisational best practices to ensure quality patient care.
- Facilitate use of resources by nursing staff.
- Monitor and improve patient satisfaction.
- Act as a role model for staff in patient care delivery.
- Partner with physicians to achieve clinical, operational, and service goals.
- Support staff participation in outside community organisations.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in nursing (BSN) from an accredited institution.
- Current Nursing License to practice as a Registered Nurse.
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
- Leadership/supervisory experience.
- Completion of Intermountain's leadership training and development courses within one year.
- 2 years of clinical experience.
- Experience in the area of oversight.
- Specialty Certification.
Physical Requirements:
- Ongoing need to see and read information, labels, and assess patient needs.
- Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors.
- Manual dexterity to manipulate complex and delicate equipment.
- Expected to lift and utilise full range of movement to transfer patients.
- Need to walk and assist with transporting/ambulating patients.
Benefits: Intermountain Health provides a generous benefits package covering a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness.
Salary: $44.99 - $69.44 per hour