Registered Nursing Administrative Manager

Volto Consulting; Newton (NJ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Volto Consulting is seeking a Hospital Operations Leader to provide on-site oversight during off-shifts in a New Jersey facility. You will supervise staffing, respond to emergencies, and ensure patient safety, quality care, and regulatory compliance.

The role requires strong leadership, communication, and the ability to coordinate across departments to maintain service excellence. Responsibilities include enforcing professional practice standards, safety initiatives, and cost-effective staffing

Qualifications

• Three (3) years of healthcare management experience.
• Positive communication skills.
• Experience with Quality initiatives, action plans, and auditing.
• Time management and multitasking skills to facilitate patient movement.
• Experience with Joint Commission preparation for disease specific certification.
• Proven ability to coach teams and provide opportunities to facilitate team work.
• MS Office experience.
• Problem solving, decision making and negotiation skills.
• Strong leadership skills.
• Able to work with multiple departments.
• Superior interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated ability to maintain confidentiality.

Responsibilities

• Make rounds in patient care areas to assess needs and acuity; respond to emergencies.
• Handle incidents and operational issues; escalate and facilitate throughput.
• Serve as senior on-site authority during off shifts; make decisions until relieved.
• Ensure professional practice standards; maintain regulatory compliance.
• DOH reporting; oversee safety initiatives and regulatory adherence.
• Promote engagement, effective communication and collaboration.
• Identify cost-saving staffing adjustments to balance census and acuity.
• Communicate decisions to unit managers and align with department needs.
• Be a primary contact for patients, staff, visitors, and physicians.
• Provide real-time support and empathetic service recovery.
• Model service excellence; investigate complaints and document findings.
• Facilitate conflict resolution and escalate when needed.
• Perform additional admin responsibilities; participate in governance.
• Guide staff, act as liaison among nursing, managers, and on-call admins.
• Document significant events and staffing actions; report to leaders next business day.
• Flag quality and safety concerns to appropriate personnel.
• Counsel and document personnel issues; follow up with managers.
• Coordinate emergency code responses and nursing staff assignments.
• Recognize excellence; assist with bed transfers and hospital-wide responses.
• Promote shared decision-making and professional autonomy via governance.

Skills

Healthcare management

Communication

Quality initiatives

Time management

Joint Commission prep

Coaching teams

MS Office

Problem solving

Leadership

Cross-department work

Confidentiality

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Job Summary

Provides leadership and oversight for hospital operations during off-shifts, ensuring patient safety, quality care, and service excellence. Manages staffing, responds to emergencies, resolves issues, and supports professional practice and regulatory compliance.

Job Responsibilities

• Make rounds in all patient care areas to assess patient needs and acuity. Respond to emergencies and assist as needed.
• Handle incidents, emergencies, and operational issues, escalating as needed. Facilitate patient throughput.
• Serves as the senior administrative authority on site during off shifts, making operational decisions until relieved by senior leadership or designated department managers.
• Ensures the implementation of professional practice standards in alignment with organizational policies and evidence-based guidelines. Maintains compliance with all applicable local, state, and federal regulations, OSHA, Joint Commission, and other relevant accrediting bodies.
• Responsible for DOH mandatory reporting of applicable events while on duty. Oversees performance and ensures adherence to patient safety initiatives and regulatory requirements.
• Creates a working environment that promotes positive employee engagement, effective communications and collaboration
• Identifies and implements ways to reduce and control expenses. Monitors staffing levels in relation to patient census and acuity. Implements workforce adjustments as needed, including sending staff home, placing them on stand-by, or reallocating personnel to other areas to ensure safe, cost-effective staffing while maintaining patient care standards.
• Communicates these decisions with the appropriate unit manager / director to ensure transparency and alignment with departmental needs.
• Serve as a key point of contact for addressing and resolving concerns from patients, staff members, visitors, and physicians in a timely and professional manner.
• Provide real-time support and communication to patients and families during times of dissatisfaction, conflict, or heightened emotion ensuring compassionate, empathetic responses and service recovery.
• Promote a culture of service excellence by modeling effective communication, empathy, and responsiveness. Investigate complaints or service disruptions, document findings.
• Facilitate conflict resolution and elevate complex issues to senior leadership when necessary.
• Performs additional administrative responsibilities as requested to meet the needs of the department/organization. Participates on committees, actively supports the Shared Governance.
• Provide guidance, feedback, and performance documentation for staff. Act as liaison between nursing staff, department managers, and administrators-on-call.
• Ensure timely and accurate documentation to all significant events, staffing adjustments, patient/ family interactions, and service recovery actions, communicating to appropriate leaders by the next business day.
• Communicates quality performance concerns and patient care/safety concerns to appropriate personnel.
• Counsels and disciplines assigned personnel, documents issues and follows up with appropriate managers.
• Coordinates activity in response to activation of emergency codes until relieved by senior management on premises or presence of manager having expertise in specific area of concern. Acts as a liaison for the assignment of nursing personnel.
• Rewards and recognizes employee excellence. Assists with transfer/bed assignment of patients to appropriate, available beds. Leads hospital-wide emergency responses such as mass casualty incidents, IT system downtime, and utility failures until relieved by senior leadership.
• Promotes shared decision-making and professional autonomy through active participation in a professional governance structure.

Skills

Required Skills & Experience:

• Three (3) years of healthcare management experience.
• Positive communication skills
• Experience with Quality initiatives, action plans, and auditing
• Time management and multitasking skills to facilitate patient movement
• Experience with Joint commission preparation for disease specific certification
• Proven ability to coach teams and provide opportunities to facilitate team work
• MS office experience
• Problem solving, decision making and negotiation skills
• Strong leadership skills
• Able to work with multiple departments
• Superior interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated ability to maintain confidentiality

Preferred Skills & Experience

• N/A

Responsibilites Cont'd

• Maintains engagement with relevant professional organizations. Supports the organization s Magnet journey by advancing nursing excellence and staff empowerment.
• Facilitates daily huddles to enhance communication, reinforce a culture of safety.