Assistant Nurse Manager, Pediatric ICU, Evening Shift

NYU Langone Health is a fully integrated health system that consistently achieves strong patient outcomes. Vizient Inc. has ranked NYU Langone the No. 1 comprehensive academic medical center in the country for three years in a row, and U.S. News & World Report recently placed several clinical specialties among the top five in the nation. NYU Langone offers a comprehensive range of medical services across 6 inpatient locations, its Perlmutter Cancer Center, and over 320 outpatient locations in the New York area and Florida.

With $14.2 billion in revenue this year, the system also includes two tuition-free medical schools in Manhattan and on Long Island, and a vast research enterprise with over $1 billion in active NIH awards.

Position Summary: We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as an Assistant Nurse Manager, Pediatric ICU, Evening Shift. In this role, the successful candidate provides clinical leadership and management for a designated time period (shift) for a patient care unit (or clinical service in operative and ambulatory settings), consistent with the philosophy and goals of the institution, departments of nursing, unit, or program.

Assists the nurse manager to develop and sustain an environment of excellence in patient/family service, growth and development of staff, and to apply evidence-based practice to improve patient care.

• Fosters a culture embedded in NYULH’s tripartite mission: to serve, to teach, and to discover.
• Collaborates with interprofessional team to ensure excellence in quality, patient experience, and efficiency.
• Develops positive and productive relationships across disciplines to establish strategic partnerships to achieve shared goals.
• Facilitates and supports positive and productive work and care environments, founded in the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Demonstrates a steadfast commitment to engaging and meaningfully recognizing staff.
• Demonstrates a commitment to lifelong professional growth and development.
• Collaborates with nurse manager on interviews and ensures that employees are appropriately selected, on-boarded, oriented, educated, and evaluated. Supports clinical rotations of students as part of partnerships for school affiliations.
• Evaluates the performance, and assesses practice, of designated personnel in a fair and transparent manner.
• Serves as role model and resource for staff. Develops and manages employees through professional growth, mentoring, appreciative coaching, counseling, and progressive discipline as appropriate, in alignment with a caring, fair, professional work environment.
• Monitors attendance of staff. Ensures appropriate staffing and skill mix to optimize patient outcomes and safety, while promoting fiscal responsibility.
• Coordinates care delivery and assignment of staff based on identified patient care needs and clinical competency for optimal unit operation and patient outcomes.
• Assists in scheduling, payroll and integrating services across the care continuum.
• Provides direct patient care as needed to support the clinical operations of the unit.
• Provides leadership support of other unit(s) in the service.
• Holds self and others accountable for the delivery of exemplary care in a cost-efficient manner.
• Assists with maintaining accreditation, regulatory standards, service standards and policies at the organizational, local, state and federal level.
• Communicates with clarity and integrity to build trust with all stakeholders.
• Communicates significant patient care issues, family concerns, safety, risk management concerns and critical events to leadership on duty, seeks consultation and assistance when indicated, and reports to the Nurse Manager or Director in a timely manner.
• Communicates regularly with the Nurse Manager about patient safety, clinical practice, staff performance, and participates in implementation of unit initiatives.
• Participates in the drafting of nursing and organizational policy, engaging front-line staff, incorporating the precepts of shared governance.
• Supports data collection in collaboration with the nurse manager and interprofessional team. Analyzes and utilizes data to drive practice changes that integrate quality, safety, patient experience, and productivity metrics to achieve excellence in patient and nursing outcomes.
• Assists leadership team in maintaining licenses, certifications, mandated learnings and content for unit staff.
• Fosters high reliability concepts within the unit/organizational structure.
• Fosters a culture of inquiry, innovation and transformation with a focus on the future.
• Participates in and fosters staff involvement in nursing research, quality improvement, and evidence-based practice efforts.
• Leads and supports developing new insights to complex situations, innovative designs, and programs/processes.
• Exercise independent judgment in the course of duties, including discipline of employees, evaluation of staff, approving time off requests, and assigning work as part of the hiring…