Assistant Nurse Manager - Mental Health Inpatient - FT - Evening 3PM-11PM

Position Overview

The position involves supervising all levels of unit personnel on assigned shifts and adjusting staff schedules based on departmental needs while maintaining equitable distribution of assignments. It also entails ensuring proper utilization of equipment, supplies, and facilities for maintaining patient care, monitoring clinical management of patient care delivery area to produce quality patient care with optimal outcomes, collaborating with respective nursing and medical personnel to coordinate care with other departments, addressing patient, family and staff concerns in a timely fashion, keeping nurse managers informed of unit activity needs and problems, communicating effectively and working cooperatively with others, demonstrating effective communication skills and assisting in the resolution of conflict among healthcare team members, patients and families, collaborating with the interdisciplinary team and incorporating the interdisciplinary team to achieve outcomes, monitoring unit activities and collaborating with staff in the identification of needed resources to ensure optimal patient outcomes, utilizing standards, guidelines and pathways for care delivery, implementing processes and continuously seeking to improve care practices to enhance outcomes, monitoring staff practice to ensure that patient standards of care are being met, participating in the quality improvement process, recognizing trends in patient care delivery and seeking opportunities for improvement which are evidence-based, providing direction and guidance to others, serving as a clinical resource to staff, demonstrating leadership skills in decision-making and problem-solving, serving as mentor and role model for staff, providing consistent communication and demonstrating mutual support, seeking new knowledge and self-development by participating in a minimum of 40 hours self-development with a minimum of 15 formal contact hours yearly, supporting the 360 degree peer review process in order to foster self-improvement in a leadership role.

Minimum Requirements

• Education: Graduate from an accredited school of nursing.

• Experience: Three years job-related experience in hospital-care setting. Six months demonstrated competency in charge role. Clinical and management support practice in patient care area required.

• Other Credentials: AHA BLS - Healthcare Provider, Registered Nurse - NJ. Requires TNCC (or must obtain within 1 year of hire) AND 8 hours of Trauma related Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) contact hours if assigned to: RMC ICU/CCU, RMC Surgical Trauma Unit, RMC PACU, Emergency Department (all campuses). Requires NIH Stroke Scale Certification (or must obtain by end of orientation) AND 8 hours of Stroke related Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) contact hours if assigned to: Critical Care, Emergency Departments, Neuro Units, Cardiology Inpatient at Hopewell, Peds/Peds ED. CPR Requirements: Requires ACLS (or must obtain within 6 months of hire date) if assigned to: Critical Care/Intermediate/Telemetry, Emergency Rooms, Pediatrics/Pediatrics Emergency Room, Labor & Delivery, Surgical Services (not to include Perioperative), Interventional Procedures, Observation. Requires NRP (or must obtain within 6 months of hire date) if assigned to: Maternity Services, Emergency Room RMC/Deborah Requires PALS (or must obtain within 6 months of hire date) if assigned to: Emergency Rooms, Infant Follow-Up, Surgical Services (only PACU & Same Day Surgery), Pediatrics/Pediatric ED.

• Knowledge and Skills: Communication and interpersonal skills. Reasoning ability and customer service skills.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

• Frequent physical demands include: Standing, Walking, Carry objects, Push/Pull, Twisting, Bending, Reaching forward, Reaching overhead, Pinching/fine motor activities.
• Occasional physical demands include: Sitting, Climbing (e.g., stairs or ladders), Squat/kneel/crawl, Wrist position deviation, Keyboard use/repetitive motion.
• Continuous physical demands include: Talking or Hearing.
• Lifting: Floor to Waist 50 lbs. Lifting Waist Level and Above 10 lbs.

Benefits

• Medical Plan

• Prescription drug coverage & In-House Employee Pharmacy

• Dental Plan

• Vision Plan

• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

• Healthcare FSA

• Dependent Care FSA

• Retail Savings and Investment Plan

• Basic Group Term Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance

• Supplemental Group Term Life & Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance

• Disability Benefits – Long Term Disability (LTD)

• Disability Benefits – Short Term Disability (STD)

• Employee Assistance Program

• Commuter Transit

• Commuter Parking

• Supplemental Life Insurance

• Voluntary Life Spouse Voluntary Life Employee Voluntary Life Child

• Voluntary Legal Services

• Voluntary Accident, Critical Illness and Hospital Indemnity Insurance

• Voluntary Identity Theft Insurance

• Voluntary Pet Insurance

• Paid Time-Off Program