Assistant Nurse Manager (ANM) - Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC)

About the role

The ASC Assistant Nurse Manager will lead daily operations, contribute to staffing and scheduling, participate in interviews and hiring decisions, and address performance concerns.

Responsibilities

• Ensure continuity of patient care information between shifts and coordinate patient admitting, discharges, transfers and other operational issues.
• Review major operational patient care issues with Nurse Managers.
• Provide ongoing clinical evaluations of nurses and other direct and indirect patient care providers on assigned unit/area.
• Counsel employees on performance issues, administer initial corrective actions and collaborate in monitoring attendance issues.
• Alert nurse manager of significant clinical or other performance issues.
• Participate in interviewing, selecting and appraising the performance of employees.
• Maintain compliance with EEO/AAP goals and guidelines.
• Administer Nursing Institute, departmental and CC policies and procedures.
• Supervise and participate in the daily delivery of patient care on assigned unit/area.
• Prepare schedule of work assignments assuring adequate coverage on all shifts.
• Support quality improvement projects, outcomes studies and research initiatives; participates in department and committees as assigned.
• Aid in orienting new personnel, continuing education and in-service educational programs.

Requirements

• Graduated from an accredited school of Professional Nursing
• Bachelor's of Science in Nursing (BSN)
• Current state licensure as Registered Nurse (RN)
• Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification through the American Heart Association (AHA) or the American Red Cross
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Certification through the American Heart Association (AHA) within first year of hire
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certification through American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross
• Two years of recent clinical nurse experience

Preferred qualifications

• Experience as an RN in the OR (circulating /scrubbing experience)

Physical Requirements

• Requires full range of motion, manual and finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination.
• Requires standing and walking for extensive periods of time.
• Requires corrected hearing and vision to normal range.
• Requires some exposure to communicable disease or bodily fluids.
• Medium Work – Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
• Physical Demand requirements are in excess of those for Light Work

Benefits

• Health Plan Options – EHP and EHP Plus
• Dental Care – Four plan options administered by Cigna
• Vision Care – Two plan options administered by EyeMed
• Flexible Spending Accounts – Healthcare and Dependent Care FSAs
• Life Insurance – Employer-paid life insurance equals 1x your annual salary with an option to purchase supplemental life insurance up to 10x your salary. You may also purchase dependent life insurance for a spouse and dependent children
• Short- and Long-term Disability Coverage – Short-term disability is available after one continuous year of regular full-time service; long-term disability begins after 90 days.
• Cleveland Clinic Investment Pension Plan
• 401(k) / 403(b) Plan
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Caregiver discounts
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Employee Hardship Fund
• Paid maternity and parental leave