Position Title:    Assistant Manager of Nursing
FLSA Status:      Exempt
Department: Nursing

Reports To:        Clinical Nurse Manager

POSITION SUMMARY:
 

The role oversees nursing services and staff during evening, night, weekend, and holiday shifts, ensuring patient-centered care and operational continuity. It implements policies, union agreements, and regulatory standards, providing direct patient care when needed. Collaboration with the Director of Nursing and department managers ensures effective hospital administration during these shifts. Timely communication with nursing managers highlights patient care issues, operational risks, and improvement activities.  As an Assistant Manager of Nursing, you will help to ensure that our patients and their families receive caring and dedicated service at REHAB. 

Wage Range: $90,626.60 per year to $135,939.91 per year

The actual wage is dependent on the applicant's relevant experience and qualifications for this position. The wage range for this position may be subject to change in the future depending on a variety of factors such as market conditions, business needs, legal developments, and other appropriate factors.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
 

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

CORE VALUES

Our team models REHAB’s core values H.E.A.R.T. in daily actions.  Honesty – Speak and act with truth and respect.  Engagement – Embrace and commit to our mission, vision and values.  Aloha – Serve others with a spirit of kindness and compassion.  Resilience – Rebound and recover with a sense of urgency.  Teamwork – Work together for success.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Ensures safe, continuous patient care by coordinating staffing, assessing unit needs, and leading staff decision-making.

• Conducts rounds regularly to evaluate unit activities and address staffing or operational concerns.

• Provides direct patient care, clinical direction, and decisions during emergent situations as necessary.

• Monitors and enforces policies, procedures, and compliance with Infection Control and safety standards.

• Investigates and follows up on incidents, complaints, or unusual events, ensuring proper documentation and communication with leadership.

• Leads staff in adhering to patient safety goals, proper documentation, and effective use of resources.

• Coordinates equipment needs, resolves deficiencies, and ensures readiness of code carts and other patient care supplies.

• Collaborates with Nursing Managers and other departments to standardize procedures, provide in-services, and enhance nursing services.

• Adjusts staffing to meet patient care needs, minimizes overtime, and communicates scheduling variances to relevant parties.

• Promotes professionalism, customer service, and a safe working environment while maintaining confidentiality and respecting patient rights.

• Participates in continuous improvement projects, audits, and educational programs to maintain accreditation preparedness and professional growth.

• Serves as in-house administrator after hours, providing leadership, guidance, and communication with off-hours departments.

• Follows and adheres to all organizational and departmental policies and guidelines, code of conduct, and REHAB employee handbook. 

• Performs other duties as assigned.

PROFESSIONALISM AND COMPLIANCE COMPETENCIES

Maintain a high level of proficiency in the following REHAB competencies. 

Strategic Thinking

Communication and interpersonal/relationship building skills

Recognition

Organization and project management

Adaptability and problem solving

MANAGEMENT/LEADERSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES

•  Responsible for the hiring, orienting, training, coaching, counseling and development of employees

• Ensures the employees are trained appropriately and maintains adequate level of competency to perform job duties; develops personnel to meet future requirements. Identifies opportunities and makes recommendations for improving processes. 

•  Develops and ensures the development of performance standards for areas of responsibility, monitors, reviews and evaluates performance for quality assurance; provides feedback to staff and takes corrective action when necessary.  

• Responsible for the creation, implementation, and ensuring adherence to appropriate policies and procedures for departments and the hospital. 

• Optimizes resources responsibly to ensure operations and staffing runs smoothly

• Encourages openness, provides a safe and positive environment within departments. 

• Creates a safe work environment that fosters respect and positive morale.

• Works closely with Leadership to ensure a cohesive work environment

• Fosters two way communication with employees and shares information from Leadership meetings. 

• In cooperation with Executive Leadership, develops and implements performance measurement indicators, benchmarks and goals linked to the strategic plan of the hospital through various activities of the service lines, programs, and quality improvement efforts of the department.

• Accepts responsibility for decisions and effective communication.

• Develops and maintains effective working relationships with external and internal customers to include patients, physicians, other managers and employees, surveyors, contractors and vendors. 

• Participates on hospital committees when requested.    

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT 

• Assists Executive Leadership in preparing the department(s) assigned budgets 

• Maintains a fiscal responsibility to oversee assigned cost centers, monitors and tracks expenditures and provides explanations for variances.

• Comprehends departments budget and presents on key metrics

• Serves as the central resource for the development and implementation of strategies which are efficient, effective, timely, patient-centered, medically appropriate for an acute rehabilitation level of care, and supports appropriate financial reimbursement
  
   

EQUIPMENT, TOOLS, WORK AIDS USED 

Office equipment, including telephone, computer and multifunction devices (MFDs).  Google’s G Suite, report writer and database software.