Assistant Nurse Manager Medical Surgical units 54005500

NYU Langone; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

NYU Langone Health's Hospital—Brooklyn is seeking an Assistant Nurse Manager for Medical-Surgical units 5400/5500, to provide clinical leadership and manage patient care on shift. You will partner with the nurse manager and interdisciplinary teams to deliver high-quality patient care, foster staff development, and advance evidence‑based practice in a culture of inclusion.

This role also supports staffing, scheduling, and mentoring across services to ensure safe, compassionate care aligned with

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing (BSN) required.
• Current NYS RN license.
• Minimum 5 years of clinical nursing leadership experience.
• Strong knowledge of evidence-based practice.
• Ability to lead diverse teams and manage staffing.

Responsibilities

• Provides clinical leadership and management for a designated unit shift.
• Collaborates with interprofessional teams to ensure quality and safety.
• Fosters an inclusive, high-performing work environment.
• Assists nurse manager with staffing, scheduling, and staff development.
• Mentors and evaluates staff, supports student rotations.
• Ensures adherence to hospital mission to serve, teach, and discover.

Skills

Leadership

Nursing leadership

Interprofessional collaboration

Staff development

Education

BSN

RN License NYS

MSN (preferred)

Tools

EHR systems

Job description

NYU Langone Hospital—Brooklyn is a full-service teaching hospital and Level I trauma center located in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The hospital is central to a comprehensive network of affiliated ambulatory and outpatient practices, and serves as NYU Langone Health's anchor for healthcare access, growth, and delivery in the entire borough. At NYU Langone Health, equity and inclusion are fundamental values. We strive to be a place where our exceptionally talented faculty, staff, and students of all identities can thrive. We embrace inclusion and individual skills, ideas, and knowledge.

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Position Summary:

We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Assistant Nurse Manager Medical Surgical units 5400/5500.

In this role, the successful candidate Provides clinical leadership and management for a designated time-period (shift) for a patient care unit (or clinical service in operative and ambulatory settings), consistent with the philosophy and goals of the institution, departments of nursing, unit, or program. Assists the nurse manager to develop and sustain an environment of excellence in patient/family service, growth and development of staff, and to apply evidence-based practice to improve patient care.

Job Responsibilities:

• Fosters a culture embedded in NYULHs tripartite mission: to serve, to teach, and to discover. (AONL-Knowledge of the Health Care Environment)
• Collaborates with interprofessional team to ensure excellence in quality, patient experience, and efficiency.
• Develops positive and productive relationships across disciplines to establish strategic partnerships to achieve shared goals. (AONL-Communication & Relationship Management)
• Facilitates and supports positive and productive work and care environments, founded in the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Demonstrates a steadfast commitment to engaging and meaningfully recognizing staff. (AONL-Business Skills & Principles)
• Demonstrates a commitment to lifelong professional growth and development (AONL-Leader Within)
• Collaborates with nurse manager on interviews and ensures that employees are appropriately selected, on-boarded, oriented, educated, and evaluated. Supports clinical rotations of students as part of partnerships for school affiliations. (AONL-Business Skills & Principles)
• Evaluates the performance, and assesses practice, of designated personnel in a fair and transparent manner. (AONL-Communication & Relationship Management)
• Serves as role model and resource for staff. Develops and manages employees through the promotion of professional growth and development, mentoring, appreciative coaching, counseling, and progressive discipline, as appropriate, in alignment with the principles of a caring, fair, professional work environment. (AONL-Leader Within)
• Monitors attendance of staff. Ensures appropriate staffing and skill mix to optimize patient outcomes and safety, while promoting fiscal responsibility. (AONL-Business Skills & Principles)
• Coordinates care delivery and assignment of staff based upon identified patient care needs and clinical competency for optimal unit operation and patient outcomes.
• Assists in scheduling, payroll and integrating services across the care continuum. (AONL-Professionalism, Knowledge of the Health Care Environment)
• Provides direct patient care as needed to support the clinical operations of the unit.
• Provides leadership support of other unit(s) in the service. (AONL-Knowledge of the Health Care