RN / Night Shift Nursing Supervisor - Resource Team at UW Medical Center-Northwest
About the role
The Night Shift Nursing Supervisor (job profile: Registered Nurse 3) works a 3x12 shift schedule, specifically night shifts (6:00pm-6:30am), and must be available for rotating weekend shifts. This position combines onsite floor shifts with administrative time.
Responsibilities
- Acts as a shift supervisor, responsible for clinical functions, staffing assignments, and care coordination
- Works as the main onsite leadership when the Nurse Manager is not present
- Fosters a supportive working relationship with staff and nursing care teams
- Oversees patient placement and throughput
- Escalates operational or care issues, including notifications and liaison with the Administrator
- On-Call: Provides patient relations assistance after hours, handles patient, staff, and provider escalations, and fosters clinical excellence
- Provides performance feedback to the Nursing Director during annual performance evaluations
- Participates in organizational committees, taskforces, and workgroups
- Provides “just in time” feedback to staff regarding clinical performance, interpersonal team interactions, and patient communications
- Responds appropriately to emergency situations and drills
- Promotes practices and decisions that reduce human error and promote patient safety
Requirements
- 4 years of inpatient hospital nursing experience
- Previous charge, lead, or supervisory nursing experience
- Current licensure to practice as a Registered Nurse in Washington State
- BLS
About UW Medical Center-Northwest
UW Medical Center-Northwest is an acute care hospital in Seattle with a focus on providing short-term and long-term staffing coverage on inpatient acute care units, including telemetry, medical-surgical, rehabilitation, and surgical services floors. Resource Team RNs are also cross-trained to work on specialty units such as the Emergency Department, ICU, Childbirth Center, and inpatient behavioral health floors. This position offers a unique opportunity to supervise a team where no two shifts are alike.