Assistant Nurse Manager Maternal Child Health - Nights

Overview

Our team members are the heart of what makes us better. At Hackensack Meridian Health we help our patients live better, healthier lives — and we help one another to succeed. With a culture rooted in connection and collaboration, our employees are team members. It’s also about how we support one another and how we show up for our community. Together, we keep getting better - advancing our mission to transform healthcare and serve as a leader of positive change.

• Assistant Nurse Manager Maternal Child Health - Full Time Nights
• Requisition #
• Shift: Night
• Status:
  Full Time with Benefits
• Location:
  
  North Bergen, New Jersey

• Leadership/Human Resource Management in collaboration with the Nurse Manager:
  • Participate with recruitment and retention strategies
  • Assist with unit huddles and leader rounding with employees
  • Participates with unit goal creation reflective of hospital goals, mission and vision
  • Participate or lead evidence-based practice projects or research
  • Participate or lead unit-based or hospital-based shared governance committees
  • Resolve conflicts and facilitate constructive resolutions
  • Complete employee corrective action plans/counseling as necessary
  • Adhere to organizational competencies and standards of behavior
  • Prepare and conduct periodic performance evaluations
  • Contribute to and/or monitor unit orientation process
  • Model employee recognition; foster cultural competence and fairness
  • Escalate nursing labor/management issues as needed

• Financial Management:
  Collaborates with the Nurse Manager for efficient fiscal management of departmental activities
• Participates in Payroll, Staff Scheduling and daily staffing needs
• Assists in department budget management; monitors unit business intelligence
• Maximizes care efficiency and throughput
• Understands value-based purchasing, revenue, and reimbursement relationships
• Monitors unit staffing productivity and adjusts staffing as needed

• Quality and Safety/Performance Improvement:
  Optimizes patient and family experience, leads multidisciplinary rounds, monitors performance improvement, engages in quality projects and root cause analyses, ensures regulatory compliance, and supports staff education and competency

• General
  
  Job Functions:
  
  Interprets and communicates policies; serves as a role model; identifies cost containment measures; serves on-call; assumes special projects; performs other duties as assigned; adheres to organizational competencies and standards

• Education, Knowledge,
  
  Skills and Abilities
  
  Required:
  • Associate degree in Nursing or Diploma in Nursing
  • BSN in progress and/or willing to acquire within three (3) years of hire.
    
    Note:
    
    Applies to team members hired on or after February 2025. Advanced MSN may satisfy BSN requirement.
  • Minimum 3 years recent nursing experience in respective specialty or equivalent (internal candidates may qualify per policy)
  • Ability to learn quickly, strong accountability, teamwork, commitment to ongoing education, and patient-focused care

• Education, Knowledge,
  
  Skills And Abilities
  
  Preferred
  • MSN
  • Supervisory or charge nurse experience

• Licenses And Certifications Required
  • New Jersey State Professional Registered Nurse License
  • AHA Basic Life Support for Health Care Providers
  • National Certification acceptable to the Magnet Recognition Program (within 2 years of hire)

Starting at $ Annually

HMH is committed to pay equity and transparency for our team members. The posted rate of pay is a reasonable good faith estimate of the minimum base pay at the time of posting and does not reflect the full value of our total rewards package.

• Workplace excellence
• Collaborative work environment
• Work-life balance
• Compassionate nursing culture
• Mentoring programs
• Tuition reimbursement

HACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH (HMH) IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, marital status, veteran status, or other protected characteristics.

Hackensack Meridian Health is a Mandatory Influenza Vaccination Facility.

To be a newer nurse and become an assistant manager of a critical care unit speaks to the opportunities Hackensack Meridian Health can provide. Also, the teamwork and team members are highlighted as a strength of the network.