Assistant Nursing Manager - Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
About the role
The Assistant Nursing Manager for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NNICU) at UConn Health is responsible for guiding, managing, and supervising the NNICU's daily operations, clinical care, and staff.
Responsibilities
- Organizes, plans unit workflow and determines priorities; schedules, assigns, oversees and reviews work of unit staff
- Makes recommendations for personnel actions such as selection, discipline and performance; conducts or assists in conducting performance evaluations
- Learns and implements the nursing process
- Maintains and promotes standards of nursing
- Provides staff orientation, training and assistance
- Provides corrective feedback to staff to support achievement of performance standards
- Identifies staff development needs
- Participates in interdisciplinary meetings regarding patient care implementation, outcomes and performance improvement activities
- Makes recommendations on policies and standards
- Prepares reports and correspondence
- Performs individualized nursing assessments for assigned patient
- Develops/updates care plans utilizing established standards of care
- Coordinates patient care
- Collaborates with staff to implement patient care plans
- Participates in staff/patient care conferences
- Performs related duties as required
- Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications and participating in professional societies
- Direct nursing care involved, includes blood draws, implanted port access, flushing central lines, IV fluids, pain management
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
- Current license to practice nursing in the state of Connecticut
- Three (3) years of acute care RN experience
- Two (2) years of current RN experience must be in a NNICU
- Supervisory or charge function responsibilities
Qualifications
- Considerable knowledge of principles and practices of nursing and healthcare administration
- Demonstrated ability to make sound clinical assessments and institute safe and efficacious care within the structure of a collaborative health team
- Considerable knowledge of requirements by federal, state or regulatory bodies
- Considerable knowledge of effective workforce utilization
- Excellent interpersonal skill
- Effective oral and written communication skills
- Knowledge of general financial management
- Supervisory ability
- Considerable knowledge of relevant policies and procedures
Benefits
Not specified
Pay
$90,896.00, Hourly: 42.70
Schedule
Fulltime, 40 hours per week, day/night rotating 8 and 12 hour shifts including weekends and holidays
Reporting Relationship
The Assistant Nurse Manager works under the supervision of the Nursing Manager
Why UConn Health?
UConn Health is a vibrant, integrated academic medical center that is entering an era of unprecedented growth in all three areas of its mission: academics, research, and clinical care. A commitment to human health and well-being has been of utmost importance to UConn Health since the founding of the University of Connecticut schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine in 1961. Based on a strong foundation of groundbreaking research, first-rate education, and quality clinical care, we have expanded our medical missions over the decades. In just over 50 years, UConn Health has evolved to encompass more research endeavors, to provide more ways to access our superior care, and to innovate both practical medicine and our methods of educating the practitioners of tomorrow.
Interested Applicants Should Apply At
https://jobs.uchc.edu/CSS_External/CSSPage_JobDetail.ASP?T=20260615163444&
Search Number: 2026-1114
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