Senior Nurse Manager - Medical Surgical Ortho

About the role

Oversees staff performance, manages staffing, hiring, orientation, and discipline, while fostering a positive and inclusive work environment.

Manages budgets and resources, maintains appropriate staffing and understands healthcare finance.

Leads and supports performance and quality improvement initiatives, implements evidence-based practice changes, and ensures compliance with professional standards and hospital policies.

Utilizes critical thinking and technology in decision-making, problem-solving, and integrating new systems to enhance patient care and outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Provides strong leadership and mentorship, ensures high-quality clinical care, supports staff development, and maintains clear communication and planning for patient care delivery.
• Encourages interdisciplinary collaboration and maintains positive relationships with patients, staff, vendors, and other departments to ensure patient-centered care.
• Demonstrates professionalism, supports ongoing education and development, maintains confidentiality, and upholds ethical standards and organizational policies.
• Communicates effectively with patients, families, staff, and interdisciplinary teams to ensure patient focused care.
• Educates and mentors staff, ensuring adherence to clinical practice models and evidence-based practices.
• Develops and implements policies, procedures, and process improvement initiatives in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.
• Fosters patient, family, staff, and physician satisfaction, understanding its impact on business goals.

Requirements

• Demonstrates Human Resource Management competencies
• Demonstrates Financial Management competencies
• Demonstrates the ability to lead Performance Improvement initiatives on their assigned unit
• Demonstrates the ability to Think Critically and Utilize Technology in relation to the operations of the unit and delivery of patient care
• Demonstrates Leadership and Clinical Practice Knowledge
• Demonstrates good Communication and Relationship Building skills
• Acts as a role model for Professionalism on their assigned unit of employment
• Specific skills as delineated by the unit of employment (see competencies)
• Specific knowledge and skills as delineated by the unit of employment (see competencies)
• Strong organization skills
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Effective oral and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex information in understandable terms to all levels of staff
• Effective computer skills, particularly Microsoft Office Outlook, Word, Excel
• Ability to work in a matrix-management environment to achieve organizational goals
• Ability to mentor, enhance and engage organizational talent
• Knowledge of broad clinical nursing
• Flexibility to adjust to changing circumstances and challenges
• Ability to develop and mentor others to their optimum levels of skill and professionalism
• Business and human resource skills as they relate to assigned areas of service
• Ability to include evidence-based practice standards for care delivery in their area of specialty
• Ability to conduct oneself professionally and lead by example
• Working knowledge of Microsoft PowerPoint

Qualifications

• Bachelor's of Nursing
• Master's of Nursing (preferred)

Skills

• Demonstrates Human Resource Management competencies
• Demonstrates Financial Management competencies
• Demonstrates the ability to lead Performance Improvement initiatives on their assigned unit
• Demonstrates the ability to Think Critically and Utilize Technology in relation to the operations of the unit and delivery of patient care
• Demonstrates Leadership and Clinical Practice Knowledge
• Demonstrates good Communication and Relationship Building skills
• Acts as a role model for Professionalism on their assigned unit of employment
• Specific skills as delineated by the unit of employment (see competencies)
• Specific knowledge and skills as delineated by the unit of employment (see competencies)
• Strong organization skills
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Effective oral and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex information in understandable terms to all levels of staff
• Effective computer skills, particularly Microsoft Office Outlook, Word, Excel
• Ability to work in a matrix-management environment to achieve organizational goals
• Ability to mentor, enhance and engage organizational talent
• Knowledge of broad clinical nursing
• Flexibility to adjust to changing circumstances and challenges
• Ability to develop and mentor others to their optimum levels of skill and professionalism
• Business and human resource skills as they relate to assigned areas of service
• Ability to include evidence-based practice standards for care delivery in their area of specialty
• Ability to conduct oneself professionally and lead by example
• Working knowledge of Microsoft PowerPoint

Benefits

Commensurate with experience

Pay

$85,529.67 - $159,089.69

Schedule

Full time

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