Registered Nurse Unit Supervisor

Inova Health System; Fairfax (VA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision coverage

Retirement: 5% match

Tuition & loan assistance

Mental health support program

Paid time off & parental leave

Flexible work schedules

Job summary

Inova Fair Oaks Hospital is seeking a dedicated Registered Nurse Unit Supervisor for the Night shift (Full-Time, 32 hours per week). You will lead clinical operations, coordinate staffing, and drive quality outcomes while ensuring safety and patient experience.

The role requires the RN license in Virginia, at least 1 year of RN experience, and a BSN or ADN with BSN within 1 year. The hospital offers strong benefits and a supportive team environment.

Qualifications

• RN Unit Supervisor role requires Virginia RN license.
• Bachelor's degree in Nursing or ADN with BSN within 1 year.
• Experience leading nursing teams and ensuring patient safety.

Responsibilities

• Lead shift huddles and communicate priorities.
• Monitor unit metrics and drive quality improvements.
• Ensure environment and patient safety standards are met.
• Coordinate staffing and resources for nightly shifts.
• Serve as liaison between physicians and nursing staff.
• Mentor and coach clinical staff on care delivery.

Skills

Nursing leadership

Staff coaching

Communication

Patient safety

Shift management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Nursing

ADN + BSN in 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 elevate 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 of completing their BSN)

Preferred Qualifications:

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