Registered Nurse Unit Supervisor

Inova Health System; Fairfax (VA); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Inova Health System is seeking an experienced Registered Nurse Unit Supervisor for Inova Fair Oaks Hospital. This full-time night-shift role (32 hours per week) leads shift activities, coordinates staffing, and ensures safety and quality across the unit.

The RN will conduct effective rounds, monitor core measures, and collaborate with physicians and the care team to optimize patient flow and outcomes. Virginia licensure, BLS, and 1 year of RN experience are required or soon-to-be met; ADN with

Qualifications

• Current Virginia RN license or license compact if applicable.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.

Responsibilities

• Leads shift huddles and communicates priorities to staff.
• Ensures staffing and patient safety through effective supervision and rounds.
• Monitors quality metrics and drives unit-based improvements.
• Serves as a liaison between physicians, nurses, and care teams.
• Supports discharge planning and patient flow optimization.

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Nursing

Associate's Degree RN with BSN completion within 1 year

Job description

Inova Fair Oaks Hospital is looking for a dedicated Registered Nurse Unit Supervisor. This role will be Full-Time, Nights shift (32 hours per week)

Inova is consistently ranked a national healthcare leader in safety, quality and patient experience. We are also proud to be consistently recognized as a top employer in both the D.C. metro area and the nation.

Featured Benefits:

• Committed to Team Member Health:offering medical, dental and vision coverage, and a robust team member wellness program.
• Retirement:Inova matches the first 5% of eligible contributions – starting on your first day.
• Tuition and Student Loan Assistance:offering up to $5,250 per year in education assistance and up to $10,000 for student loans.
• Mental Health Support:offering all Inova team members, their spouses/partners, and their children 25 mental health coaching or therapy sessions, per person, per year, at no cost.
• Work/Life Balance:offering paid time off, paid parental leave, and flexible work schedules

Registered Nurse (RN) Unit Supervisor Job Responsibilities:

• Conducts high quality shift huddles by communicating strategic priorities related to target, actual and gap barriers in addition to small tests of change, results of rounding, challenges, celebrations and other matters
• Conducts effective safety huddles and conducts or appropriately delegates all environmental and safety rounding and conducts and ensures that Patient, Medical Director and RN rounding is completed for areas of responsibility
• Rounds on staff continually and serves to remove or eliminate barriers to providing quality care while enhancing staff engagement
• Reviews core measures, key performance indicators and other metrics relevant to unit/patient populations and participates in the analysis of unit-based service outcomes as well as development of action plans that lead to systematic improvements in outcomes
• Participates in emergency and safety preparedness drills/trainings as required
• Participates in simulation labs and Operating Room safety stand-downs
• Ensures adherence to The Joint Commission standards that are relevant to areas of responsibility and ensures that team members are knowledgeable of related standards
• Contributes to professional decision making to support and/or implement unit based quality improvement work and strategic outcomes
• Serves as role model to others in communication to patients, identifying concerns, diffusing potentially difficult situations and facilitating resolution
• Serves as a Physician Liaison and primary information resource/contact for unit(s) of responsibility
• Collaborates with a multidisciplinary healthcare team to ensure that discharge needs are in place to provide smooth transition of patient flow
• Accurately assesses current state while forecasting staffing/supply needs and working to proactively resolve staffing discrepancies
• Contributes to the completion of annual evaluations as delegated by unit leadership, participates in the disciplinary process for team members, when applicable, by providing necessary input to performance deficiencies and participates in the interview and hiring process for new team members
• Provides individual coaching and counseling to clinical staff on critical processes, standards and problem solving, communicates expectations effectively and advocates for and supports the clinical staff and promotes an environment of mutual trust
• May perform additional duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications:

• Certification: Basic Life Support; Inova RN Unit Supervisor and Charge Nurse Training (Within 3 months)
• Licensed Registered Nurse in the Commonwealth of Virginia
• Experience: 1 year of experience as a Registered Nurse
• Education: Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (or Associate's Degree RN within 1 year ofcompleting their BSN)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with Women's and children's population is preferred

About Us

We are Inova, Northern Virginia’s leading nonprofit healthcare provider. Every day, our 26,000+ team members provide world-class healthcare to the communities we serve. Our people are the reason we're a national leader in healthcare safety, quality and patient experience. And from best-in-class facilities to professional development opportunities, we support them at every step. At Inova, we're constantly striving to be ever better — to shape a more compassionate future for healthcare.

Inova Health is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, pregnancy (including childbirth, pregnancy-related conditions and lactation), race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristics protected by law.