Registered Nurse - Assistant Manager - Behavioral and Mental Health - Day Shift

Works under the direction of the Behavioral & Mental Health (BMH) Clinical Operations Manager to facilitate daily operations, including patient flow, staffing assignments, safe patient care, and to promote a healthy work environment at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. This role is a Full-time Night Shift position at the Scottish Rite location.

Requirements

• Minimum of a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)
• Minimum of 1 year of people management experience
• Minimum 2 years of clinical nursing experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 1 year of management/administrative experience in a healthcare setting
• Experience in pediatric and/or psychiatric nursing

Education

Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)

Certification Summary

• Licensure as a Registered Nurse in the State of Georgia or Multi-State through the Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from the American Heart Association within 30 days of employment
• Marcus Crisis Prevention Program Tier 5 training, or equivalent, within 3 months of employment
• Professional Nursing Certification deemed by department required upon one year of hire

Skills

• Excellent communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrates the ability to organize workloads and resources

Responsibilities

Practice (Caring for the Patient)

• Supports environment for delivery of care for BMH patients
• Acts as clinical resource for BMH patient populations throughout all areas of hospital, including Emergency Department and inpatient areas
• Maintains competence to provide and/or assist with clinical care, including acting as Code BERT lead

Development (Fostering Clinical Knowledge)

• Participates in educational process related to delivery of healthcare
• Maintains own professional development
• Fosters professional development of others via constructive performance feedback, input, and coaching
• Understands and supports Children's Healthcare of Atlanta's nursing career advancement program, My Nursing Career Path, as well as BMH Tech advancement

Engagement (Engaging and Leading Professionally)

• Participates actively in and supports shared leadership councils
• Fosters collegial relationships between team members, other departments, and medical staff members
• Demonstrates fiscal responsibility in supporting budget, productivity, and resource utilization
• Manages and orders required supplies to promote quality patient care delivery
• Serves as department leader on shift in absence of manager
• Drives and effectively facilitates admission, transfer, and discharge process, ensuring efficient and safe patient flow through collaboration with physicians, inter-professional team, hospital leadership, and staff
• Removes or escalates barriers to appropriate leader

Outcomes (Driving Excellent Results)

• Supports staffing effectiveness
• Participates in achievement of organization and BMH departmental goals
• Leads department staff meetings
• Supports plans for system and unit change
• Supports regulatory agency readiness
• Monitors activities within work environment to maintain a culture of safety
• Demonstrates commitment and flexibility through times of change

Primary location: 1001 Johnson Ferry Rd