Assistant Nurse Manager - Operating Room

About the role

The Assistant Nurse Manager (ANM) for the Operating Room will provide clinical supervision and coordinate daily unit operations to foster a collaborative team environment, ensure safe and efficient surgical care, and improve patient outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Supervise and coordinate unit clinical operations.
• Provide effective and efficient patient care to all ages on assigned shifts or as otherwise designated.
• Facilitate communication and collaboration among unit caregivers and other departments/units.
• Ensure continuity of patient care information between shifts.
• Cover major operational patient care issues with Nurse Managers.
• Provide ongoing clinical evaluations of caregivers, counsel caregivers on performance issues, administer initial corrective actions and monitor attendance issues.
• Interview, select and orient new caregivers.
• Maintain compliance with EEO/AAP goals and guidelines.
• Prepare work schedules to ensure adequate coverage on all shifts.
• Support quality improvement projects, outcomes, studies and research initiatives.
• Absorb responsibilities of the Nurse Manager in their absence.

Requirements

• Graduate from an accredited school of professional nursing.
• Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing (BSN).
• Current state licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN).
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification through the American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross.
• Two years of recent clinical nursing experience.
• Strong demonstrated clinical knowledge and skills.

Preferred qualifications

• Supervisory experience.
• Prior experience as a charge nurse.
• Prior leadership experience.
• Two years of Operating Room experience.

Physical Requirements

• Full range of motion, manual and finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination.
• Standing and walking for extensive periods of time.
• Corrected hearing and vision to normal range.
• 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.
• 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.
• The 401(k) / 403(b) Plan.
• Paid Time Off (PTO).
• Caregiver discounts.
• Adoption assistance.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Employee Hardship Fund.
• Paid maternity and parental leave.