What are the responsibilities and job description for the Medical / Surgical - Assistant Nurse Manager position at St Lukes Health System (Boise ID)?
Overview
St. Luke’s Health System is seeking an experienced Assistant Nurse Manager to join our Inpatient Medical/Surgical team to lead our team of talented nurses to care for the needs of our community at Meridian Medical Center! (Night and Weekend shift differentials available)
At St. Luke’s, we celebrate the diversity of our patients and our incredible staff! We believe in creating a supportive, inclusive, and uplifting environment that honors your unique strengths and perspectives. Together, we’re dedicated to providing exceptional, patient-centered care while fostering a positive and encouraging workplace culture.
About Our Medical/Surgical Units:
- Sign-on bonus and relocation assistance for eligible new hires
- Full Time Night shift and Day shift openings 1.0 FTE - 40 hours per week
- Shifts times are generally (7:00a-7:30p – Days) and (7:00p-7:30a - Nights)
- Schedules are TBD at this time but will be variable days of the week and weekend
- 40 additional PTO hours for night shift employees
- Units 5 & 6 are dynamic 42-bed surgical units where you'll have the chance to enhance your clinical skills while caring for a diverse patient population
- Typical RN-to-patient ratio: 1:5
- Typical CNA-to-patient ratio: 1:8
- Continued education/certification opportunities
- Five-time Magnet Designation for Nursing Excellence
- Adhere to AWHONN standard staffing ratios
What you can expect from this role:
- Work-life balance : Design a schedule that fits your life and aligns with your team's needs
- Personalized onboarding : Work alongside our Unit-Based Educator to ensure your journey with us starts off strong
- Professional growth : Enjoy access to scholarships for continuing education, conferences, certifications, and licensure
- A supportive culture : Be part of a team that values camaraderie, encouragement, and meaningful relationships
- Diverse surgical experience : Gain valuable expertise in a variety of procedures across two specialized units
Responsibilities:
- The Assistant Nurse Manager is responsible for managing, developing and engaging staff on designated unit or units based on size, ensuring best practice are followed with adherence to established policies and procedures.
- Accountable for achieving harm index, compliance to evidence-based protocols, patient safety, HCAPS, rounding, vacancy, turnover, productivity, overtime, expense, workplace safety and staff engagement performance metrics.
- Makes staff assignments to align with staff competencies to ensure appropriate patient care and actively manages staff each shift. Works with Nursing Manager and Staffing Office to determine staffing needs.
- Provides guidance, mentoring, coaching and development of staff, and ensures execution of action plans to improve staff development and employee engagement. Works with staff to promote resolution of conflicts and counsels’ staff when clinical practice standards are not met.
- Assists in the hiring and onboarding process, as well as contributes to performance evaluations and staff management, as delegated by the Nursing Manager.
- Provides increased leadership visibility through actively engaging in real-time patient rounding, to support coaching and mentoring of the patient care team.
- Initiate and foster continuous improvement within department. Identify and resolve patient/customer satisfaction issues and complaints.
- Ensure compliance with regulations governing hospitals/area/service and practice/area/ service. Ensure that policy, procedures and standards are developed, implemented and maintained.
- Ensures communication of program priorities, policies, and procedures across team to ensure consistent patient experience and optimal outcomes.
- Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned
Qualifications:
- Education: Bachelor of Science in Nursing
- Experience: 3 years nursing experience
- Licenses/Certifications: Current RN License required and Current Basic Life Support (BLS) Provider Certified through American Safety and Health Institute, American Heart Association, or American Red Cross.
What’s in it for you
At St. Luke’s, caring for people in the communities we serve is our mission – and this includes our own SLHS team. We offer a robust benefits package to support our teams both professionally and personally. In addition to a competitive salary and retirement plans, we ensure our team feels supported in their benefits beyond the typical medical, dental, and vision offerings. We care about you and have fantastic financial and physical wellness options, such as: on-site massages, on-site counseling via our Employee Assistance Program, access to the Virgin Pulse Wellness tool, as well as other formal training and career development offerings to ensure you are meeting your career goals.
St. Luke’s is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, religion, color, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other status or condition protected by law.
*Please note: this posting is not reflective of all job duties and responsibilities and is intended to provide an overview to job seekers.
