Nurse Manager Assistant - Medical Surgical - F/T Nights

About the Role

Our team members are the heart of what makes us better. At Hackensack Meridian Health, we help our patients live better, healthier lives—and we help one another to succeed. With a culture rooted in connection and collaboration, our employees are team members. Here, competitive benefits are just the beginning. It’s also about how we support one another and how we show up for our community. Together, we keep getting better—advancing our mission to transform healthcare and serve as a leader of positive change.

Responsibilities

• Supports the organization in the execution of the nursing strategic plan and priorities.
• Actively participates in unit and hospital decision-making and provides meaningful recognition to others.
• Provides operational and administrative support to Nurse leadership, coordinating staffing, throughput, quality and safety outcomes, staff competency, hiring, clinical and staff corrective actions, unit efficiency, and other departmental activities.
• Collaborates with the Nurse Manager to assess, plan, implement, monitor, and evaluate nursing practice and the nursing care delivery system with direct supervision of front-line staff.

Leadership/Human Resource Management

• Participates with recruitment and retention strategies.
• Assists with unit huddles and leader rounding with employees.
• Participates in unit goal creation reflective of hospital goals and the mission and vision of Hackensack Meridian Health.
• Leads or participates in evidence-based practice projects or research, unit-based or hospital-based shared governance committees or councils.
• Resolves conflicts and facilitates constructive resolutions and positive outcomes.
• Completes employee corrective action plans/counseling as necessary.
• Adheres to HMH’s Organizational and Managerial competencies and standards of behavior.
• Prepares and conducts periodic performance evaluations for assigned staff members.
• Contributes to and/or monitors the unit orientation process of all roles as necessary.
• Participates in and models the importance of employee recognition.
• Models cultural competence, social justice, and fairness, capitalizing on generational diversity to foster highly effective work groups.
• Escalates nursing labor/management issues where applicable.

Financial Management

• Collaborates with the Nurse Manager for efficient fiscal management of departmental activities to ensure proper utilization of hospital resources.
• Participates in payroll, staff scheduling, and daily staffing needs.
• Assists in the management of the department budget.
• Monitors business intelligence for the unit.
• Maximizes care efficiency and throughput.
• Understands the relationship between value-based purchasing and quality outcomes with revenue and reimbursement.
• Monitors unit staffing productivity and flexes staff accordingly.

Quality and Safety/Performance Improvement

• Optimizes the patient and family experience of care.
• Leads multidisciplinary rounds.
• Ensures unit-based performance improvement monitoring is completed, trended, and reported internally and externally.
• Leads or participates in quality improvement projects.
• Leads or conducts root cause analysis investigations.
• Assures unit regulatory compliance.
• Participates in staff education and competency.
• Serves as a role model to others and mentors new employees and new Charge RNs.

General Job Functions

• Interprets, supports, and communicates policies, standards, and procedures.
• Serves as a role model for staff in all aspects of nursing (i.e., professionalism, quality care).
• Assists in identifying cost containment measures by identifying alternative measures of product utilization within the department.
• Serves on-call based on unit requirements.
• Assumes special projects as assigned.
• Performs other duties as assigned by leadership.
• Adheres to HMH Organizational competencies and standards of behavior.

Qualifications

Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required

• A minimum of an associate in Nursing or diploma of Nursing degree.
• BSN in progress and/or willing to acquire within three (3) years of hire (applies to team members hired on or after February 2025). Advanced master's degree in nursing programs satisfy the BSN requirement (e.g., Associates to MSN).
• Minimum 3 years of recent nursing experience in respective specialty or equivalent. Exceptions may be made for internal candidates on a case-by-case basis.
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to changing patient needs.
• Strong sense of accountability for improving the lives of patients and their caregivers.
• Exceptional focus on teamwork and dedication to ongoing education.
• Passion for delivering the highest quality of care based on a strong sense of patient focus.

Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Preferred

• MSN.
• Supervisory or charge nurse experience.

Licenses and Certifications Required

• NJ State Professional Registered Nurse License.
• AHA Basic Health Care Life Support HCP Certification.
• ACLS.
• National Certification acceptable to the Magnet Recognition Program and appropriate to your current specialty (within two years of hire).

Pay

Minimum rate of $113,817.60 annually. Hackensack Meridian Health is committed to pay equity and transparency. The posted rate of pay is a reasonable good faith estimate of the minimum base pay for this role at the time of posting in accordance with the New Jersey Pay Transparency Act. The base compensation determined at the time of the offer may differ based on non-discriminatory factors including labor market data, experience, education, certifications, skills, geographic location, internal equity, budget, and grant funding.

Benefits

In addition to competitive compensation for full-time and part-time (20+ hours/week) job positions, HMH offers a comprehensive benefits package, including:

• Health, dental, and vision benefits.
• Paid leave.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Retirement benefits.
• Performance-based incentives, bonuses, or commissions (for eligible positions).
• Shift differentials for work performed on evening, night, or weekend shifts.