Assistant Nurse Manager

Job Title: Assistant Nurse Manager
Job Location: San Jose CA US
Job Type: Full-time

Job Description:

• Recommends developmental opportunities for others; builds collaborative cross-functional relationships. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; provides team members with feedback; and mentors and coaches to drive performance improvement. Pursues professional growth; provides training and development to talent for growth opportunities; supports execution of performance management guidelines and expectations. Implements adapts and stays up to date with organizational change challenges feedback best practices and processes. Fosters open dialogue supports mentors engages and motivates team members on collaboration. Delegates tasks and decisions as appropriate; provides appropriate support guidance and scope.
• Supervises and coordinates daily activities of designated work team or unit by monitoring the execution and completion of tactical action items and work assignments; ensures all policies and procedures are followed. Aligns team efforts and standards and measures progress in achieving results; determines and carries out processes and methodologies; resolves escalated issues as appropriate. Develops work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; coordinates obtains and distributes resources. Removes obstacles that impact performance; identifies and recommends improvement opportunities; influences teams to execute in alignment with operational objectives.
• Supervises hospital administrative functions to support patient care by: facilitating team meetings and/or management decisions and identifying action items taking into consideration compliance timelines and financial commitments; facilitating and maintaining utilization and productivity to achieve performance targets; maintaining and ensuring collection of data interpreting data and taking action; supervising cross-functional activities including workplace and patient safety labor relations and quality/risk management issues; maintaining survey readiness activities including mock rounds and mitigating issues to maintain compliance and regulatory standards and delivering requested audit documentation information and reports; and ensuring budget targets are met by assuming accountability for appropriate staffing patient placement and/or other relevant decisions as required.
• Manages care delivery operations and programs within a twenty-four-hours-a-day seven-days-a-week operational environment by: supporting large and/or complex work streams with significant program impact; supervising data collection to inform the development and implementation of plans; coordinating and monitoring daily operational activities involving direct patient care management; coordinating resources in hospital areas to ensure appropriate assignment and utilization; supervising multidisciplinary hospital team(s) and holding team(s) accountable for performance as needed; helping implement emergency preparedness programs; ensuring others are up-to-date with the teams emergency preparedness plan ensuring recovery plans are implemented ensuring staff are trained and understand expectations for during and after an emergency; coaching the team and monitoring implementation and delivery on objectives; and supervising and coaching the delivery of nursing services and patient care within a twenty-four-hours-a-day seven-days-a-week operational environment in alignment with cost quality and clinical and utilization standards.
• Supervises improvements to operations and technology processes by: executing the work of cross-functional teams on strategic projects designed to achieve goals related to issue remediation and improved quality service affordability and/or operating efficiency and escalates as needed; responding to escalations to improve the performance of operations system processes and address quality and safety issues; monitoring strategic plans with the goal of achieving integrated services across the continuum of care; and monitoring performance metrics to track the success of strategic improvement projects.
• Ensures safe quality and standardized care delivery within a twenty-four-hours-a-day seven-days-a-week operational environment by: monitoring the continuous improvement of the quality and safety of clinical practices services and operations for patients and staff; ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements (e.g. Nursing Practice Act The Joint Commission TJC federal state and local requirements) updated by governmental and regulatory agencies; and contributing to the design and implementation of systems processes and methods to evaluate and improve patient care within assigned department and across the continuum of care.