Description
This Assistant Nurse Manager role supports a nurse manager in overseeing daily nursing activities within a nursing department at Intermountain Health Alta View 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 a clinical nursing environment
- Contribute to strategic planning, day-to-day operations, and standards of care
- 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 in the state of practice
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification for Healthcare Providers
- Leadership/supervisory experience
- Must complete Intermountain's leadership training and development courses within one year
- 2 years of clinical experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in the area of oversight
- Specialty Certification
Physical Requirements:
- Ongoing need to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies
- Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors
- Manual dexterity of hands and fingers 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 and obtaining and distributing supplies and equipment
Benefits: Intermountain Health provides a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness.
Salary: $44.99 - $69.44 per hour