Nursing Administrative Supervisor

Memorial Home Services; Decatur (IL); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Memorial Home Services seeks an experienced nurse leader to assure continuity of hospital operations, supervise nursing staff across shifts, and coordinate care delivery. The role acts as patient advocate, clinical expert, and mentor to nursing personnel while guiding change initiatives.

The administrator designee collaborates with executive leadership, responds to urgent needs, and ensures staffing and throughput goals are met. Strong clinical skills and communication are essential.

Qualifications

• ADN required; bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Licensed RN in Illinois.
• Current CPR certification required.
• ACLS preferred.
• Outstanding human relations and communications skills.
• Comfort with change and adaptability.
• Creativity and flexibility in problem resolution.
• Well-rounded clinical expertise.

Responsibilities

• Acts as administrative designee for hospital administration and nursing leadership.
• Responds to urgent administrative needs, investigations and emergencies.
• Coordinated disaster/acute events until relieved by senior staff.
• Interprets policies and provides clinical expertise as needed.
• Provides support to patients, families, and visitors utilizing resources.
• Communicates with Chief Nursing Officer and Executives on events.
• Assumes staffing responsibility on assigned shifts and rounds the units.
• Adjusts staffing to meet minimal staffing standards and guides decisions.
• Informs nursing directors of staffing and admin activities.
• Optimizes bed availability and patient throughput with care teams.
• Works with discharge planning to coordinate transfers and bed use.
• Identifies throughput bottlenecks and resolves delays with leaders.
• Collaborates with nurses to develop staff and improve customer satisfaction.
• Serves on committees and acts as a positive role model.
• Performs other related work as required.

Skills

Leadership

Staff coordination

Communication skills

Change management

Clinical expertise

Problem solving

Mentorship

Education

ADN

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Assures the continuity of hospital operations by assuming administrative responsibility for nursing personnel/activities as well as the coordination of all other hospital personnel/activities on assigned shifts. Functions as a patient advocate, clinical expert, and as leader/mentor/advisor for nursing personnel. Actively participates in and supports the development, operationalization, and evaluation of major change initiatives.

Education:

ADN required; bachelor’s degree preferred.

Licensure/Certification/Registry:

• Registered nurse licensure in the state of Illinois.
• Current CPR certification required.
• ACLS preferred.

Other Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Demonstrates:
• Outstanding human relations/communications skills.
• Comfort with change.
• Creativity and flexibility in problem resolution.
• Well-rounded clinical expertise.

Acts as the administrative designee on behalf of and in cooperation with hospital administration.

• Responds to urgent administrative needs, complaint investigations, and any clinical or facility emergency.
• Serves as coordinator in emergency or disaster situation until relieved or assisted by the Administrator on call, Director of Nursing on call or other administrative staff members
• Performs services requested by the Administrator or Director on call. Communicates issues and works to resolve problems with other department managers.
• Interprets/clarifies goals, policies and procedures as necessary.
• Provides clinical expertise when necessary (i.e. transfer of patients requiring an RN, starting IVs and assisting staff with direct patient care).
• Provides support to patient/family/visitor/significant others, assisting them in the utilization of medical center resources as appropriate.

• Communicates regularly with Chief Nursing Officer and Executive Directors. Ensures the leadership is aware of events, staffing concerns and disciplinary situations.

Assumes administrative responsibility for patient care staffing on assigned shifts.

• Makes purposeful rounds on patient care units, Emergency Department, OR/PACU, and Patient Placement to gather information needed to make staffing decisions.
• Makes staffing adjustments to assure compliance with minimal staffing standards outlined in the Nursing Staffing Plan.
• Provides guidance/counsel in regard to staffing adjustments.
• Communicates staffing and administrative activities with nurse managers, directors of nursing, product line managers, and the chief nursing officer.

Provides guidance and coordination support to the healthcare team to optimize bed availability and achieve efficient patient throughput.

• Works closely with the patient care team (i.e. physicians, charge nurses, discharge planners, and patient care facilitators) to ensure timely coordination of daily discharges and transfers.
• Communicates with Environmental Services, Engineering/Facilities, Patient Placement and Patient Transport to identify, prioritize and resolve patient throughput bottlenecks.
• Rounds on patient care areas (inpatient units, ED, PACU) to identify delays in throughput and actively works with appropriate teams/departments to resolve delays in a timely manner.
• Responds to daily bed availability concerns as they arise.
• Proactively identifies patient throughput bottlenecks and works with clinical leaders to resolve them before they impact patient throughput.

Collaborates with nursing colleagues to enhance patient care, colleague growth and development, and customer satisfaction.

• Provides relevant feedback to assist nurse managers to support performance management.
• Utilize daily opportunities to assist staff to acquire additional clinical/communication/conflict resolution skills.
• Serves on committees/task forces as appropriate
• Acts as a positive role model/change agent.
• Demonstrates responsibility for own personal and professional growth.

Performs other related work as required or requested.