Nurse Manager

About the role

The Nurse Manager will use critical thinking, good judgment, and interpersonal skills to identify solutions or approaches to patient problems. They will collaborate with clinical staff to design and implement meaningful and individualized patient-centered care.

Responsibilities

• Build relationships with providers and advocate for the needs of providers and nursing teams
• Supervise and develop nursing staff
• Participate in hiring and training nursing staff
• Assure nursing staff are cross-trained in more than one department
• Hold staff accountable for the highest level of consistency possible within the nursing department and site level clinical matters
• Cookordinate clinical and non-clinical staff activities for a high quality, efficient, compassionate experience for every patient
• Assure nursing staff reviews and understands nursing guidelines, policies and procedures
• Collaborate with director of nursing to manage compliance of infection control and OSHA policies and procedures
• Cookordinate site audits from nursing supervisors of CLIA labs, medication rooms, autoclave, clean and soiled utility room
• Cookorate with provider scheduler to ensure distribution of nursing schedules
• Manage issues related to medical supplies, including vaccinations, purchasing, charges for services, handling, storage, and proper technique training
• Serve as super user on EHR and other digital platforms
• Read and interpret 3rd next available appointment report
• Assure nursing and clinical staff understand and abide by patient scheduling protocols including open-access scheduling
• Prepare a monthly nursing report for nursing and clinical leadership
• Participate in QA committee work
• Identify short-term and long-range issues, recommend courses of action, and implement directives
• Aid in development of annual budgets for nursing and non-clinical departments
• Attend trainings and meetings for professional development

Requirements

• BS in nursing; Master’s preferred
• Current New York State licenses as a registered nurse
• Current basic life support certification
• Minimum of 3 years clinical/nursing management/supervision experience; physician office/practice preferred
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Conflict resolution and problem solving skills
• Able to read, write and speak the English language. A second language of Spanish preferred

Skills

• Kindness: treat each person with respect and compassion, valuing each person’s story
• Resiliency: see opportunities to innovate and find solutions when challenges arise
• Teamwork: open to others’ unique perspectives, and will collaborate to meet shared goals

Benefits

• Compensation: $91,000 to $95,000 annually, based on a full-time, 40 hour work week
• Benefits: Registered Nurse tuition reimbursement potential. Options for medical, dental, life, and supplemental insurance. 403b match, health savings accounts with employer contribution, wellbeing programs, continuing education opportunities, generous paid time off and holidays

Pay

$91,000 to $95,000 annually, based on a full-time, 40 hour work week

Schedule

Primary location in Buffalo, NY with travel to all Neighborhood sites in Western New York as needed.