Asst Nurse Manager

Maimonides Health Nursing Manager

About Us

We're Maimonides Health, Brooklyn's largest healthcare system, serving over 250,000 patients each year through the system's 3 hospitals, 1800 physicians and healthcare professionals, more than 80 community-based practices and outpatient centers. At Maimonides Health, our core values H.E.A.R.T drives everything we do. We uphold and maintain Honesty, Empathy, Accountability, Respect, and Teamwork to empower our talented team, engage our respective communities and adhere to Planetree's philosophy of patient-centered care. The system is anchored by Maimonides Medical Center, one of the nation's largest independent teaching hospitals and home to centers of excellence in numerous specialties; Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital, a 130-bed adult medical-surgical hospital; and Maimonides Children's Hospital, Brooklyn's only children's hospital and only pediatric trauma center. Maimonides' clinical programs rank among the best in the country for patient outcomes, including its Heart and Vascular Institute, Neuroscience Institute, Bone and Joint Center, and Cancer Center. Maimonides is an affiliate of Northwell Health and a major clinical training site for SUNY Downstate College of Medicine.

Responsibilities

Communication : Strong written and verbal skills are demonstrated in reports, correspondence and presentations. Ensures staff are kept informed of Medical Center and departmental priorities. Communicates vision statement and medical center strategic priorities and demonstrates commitment toward their achievement.

Professional Development : Participates in conferences, workshops, and other professional development activities to maintain licensure and / or remain professionally current with advances in field of expertise.

Staff Development : Ensures staff receive mandated in-servicing in Safety, Quality Assurance, Risk Management, Customer Service, Infection Control and any other in-service that may apply.

Problem Solving : Recommendations and decision making reflect strong analytical skills and focus on quality, cost containment, and impact of change on other departments.

Customer Service Management : Incorporates the Medical Center's Strategic Plan in developing and / or revising departmental policies and systems. Continually reviews the service delivery process to exceed customer expectations. Is perceived as a role model by staff, peers in customer service leadership.

Project Management : Participates in multidisciplinary task forces, committees and projects, demonstrating team spirit and ability to work with different internal customers. When leading a project team demonstrates the ability to bring together different views and skills toward timely and effective completion of project objectives.

Clinical Leadership : Provides clinical supervision to clinical management staff. Leads clinical (treatment) planning meetings. Provide in-service training and maintenance of clinical standards. May provide leadership for hospital-wide clinically oriented committees.

Other Job Duties

Serves as resource for clinical and management information models.

Assists Nurse Manager in developing standard formats for fiscal, materials, and human resource management development and planning.

Assists management in developing cost accounting methodology and model to enable MMC to determine costs of nursing care and other direct costs and to provide information for MMC planning and decisions (e.g., pertinent elements of patient care, labor, non-labor, and indirect allocation).

Performs other related duties as required.

Qualifications

Basic Competencies

Education : Bachelor of Science in Nursing required.

Experience : Minimum of 3 years of clinical experience required.

Skills : Clinical nursing skills and expertise. Good organizational skills. Good oral and written communication skills. Good interpersonal skills. Speaks, reads and writes English to the extent required by the position.

Job Setting / Physical Demands

Nursing offices and patient care areas; contact with staff, patients, families.

Somewhat sedentary, but mobility required.

May handle emergency or crisis situations.

May lift, position, push, and / or transfer patients.

Protective clothing may be required : mask or face shield, gloves, impermeable gown, particulate filter respirator.

Pay Range USD $140,000.00 - USD $140,000.00 / Yr.

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer Maimonides Medical Center (MMC) is an equal opportunity employer.