Assistant Director, Nursing

Northwell Health; Town of Hempstead (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Northwell Health in New York seeks an experienced nursing leader to oversee hospital operations in the absence of senior leadership, ensuring delivery of high-quality patient and family centered care and a professional work environment.

You will guide supervisors and staff, align departments with hospital objectives, ensure staffing, compliance, and adherence to care delivery models, and drive performance reviews and talent development.

Qualifications

• RN leadership and clinical oversight experience.
• Strong communication and collaboration with diverse teams.
• Ability to drive quality and safety initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Oversees operations and patient care in the absence of leadership.
• Leads supervisors and staff toward facility objectives.
• Guides departments to achieve hospital goals and high-quality care.
• Maintains a professional, healing environment for patients and families.
• Ensures staffing and resources meet patient care needs.
• Promotes evidence-based, ethical practice and teamwork.
• Provides direction on clinical and operational concerns when leadership is absent.
• Input into performance reviews and staff actions as needed.
• Models professional standards across clinical, educational, and leadership domains.
• Monitors resources and equipment in the absence of leadership.
• Assesses activity to ensure equitable staffing and access.
• Ensures adherence to care delivery models and standards.
• Stays current on regulatory requirements and compliance.
• Maintains knowledge of scope of practice and legislation.
• Identifies opportunities for operational change via evidence-based strategies.
• Performs related duties as required.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Team Building

Strategic Planning

Education

Bachelor of Science in Nursing

Master of Science in Nursing

Tools

EHR (Epic)

Job description

Oversees all areas of the hospital in absence of leadership. Maintains a professional environment that supports delivery of high-quality patient and family centered care.

Job Responsibility

• 1.Oversees and manages operations and patient care activities in all areas of facility in the absence of leadership.
• 2.Provides leadership to supervisors and team members by communicating and guiding toward achieving facility objectives.
• 3.Communicates, builds consensus, and guides departments toward achieving hospital objectives.
• 4.Promotes and maintains high quality patient and family centered care in a healing environment.
• 5.Maintains a professional work environment that fosters team member respect, engagement, accountability and optimal patient outcomes.
• 6.Promotes appreciative inquiry and evidence-based, ethical and compassionate practice.
• 7.Provides direction and guidance to patient care unit team members and supervisors in clinical and operational concerns in the absence of leadership.
• 8.May provide input into performance reviews, hiring, promotions and corrective actions.
• 9.Serves as a role model for standards of professional practice (clinical, educational and leadership).
• 10.Monitors personnel, supply and equipment considerations in the absence of leadership.
• 11.Assesses hospital activity, patient activity and personnel resources in order to ensure equitable and appropriate staffing.
• 12.Ensures adherence to the established care delivery model, using knowledge of scope and standards of practice.
• 13.Facilitates continual compliance with the JC, CMS, New York State, DOH, Public Health Law, HIPPA regulations and System, hospital and department standards.
• 14.Demonstrates broad understanding of the regulatory environment in order to ensure hospital compliance with requirements.
• 15.Maintains current knowledge of scope and standards of practice, healthcare legislation, and population health.
• 16.Identifies opportunities to initiate operational change within facility using evidence-based strategies and solutions.
• 17.Performs related duties as required. All responsibilities noted here are considered essential functions of the job under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Duties not mentioned here, but considered related are not essential functions.

Job Qualification

• Bachelors of Science Degree, required. Masters, preferred. (Bachelors or Master’s degree must be in nursing)
• Current license to practice as a Registered Professional Nurse in New York State, required.
• Specialized certifications, as needed.
• 6-10 years of nursing experience and 5-7 years of leadership/management experience, required.

*Additional Salary Detail

The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future.When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).