Assistant Nurse Manager - Orthopedics

Assistant Nurse Manager - Orthopaedics Medical Surgical

Join Cleveland Clinic's Main Campus where research and surgery are advanced, technology is leading-edge, patient care is world class and caregivers are family. Here, you will work alongside a passionate and dedicated team, receive endless support and appreciation, and build a rewarding career with one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world. The Assistant Nurse Manager (ANM) will support H70, a 34-bed medical-surgical orthopedic unit with telemetry monitoring capabilities. The unit specializes in caring for adult postoperative orthopedic patients recovering from total hip, knee and shoulder replacements, revision surgeries, fractures, sarcoma resections, joint infections, osteomyelitis, avascular necrosis and other complex orthopedic conditions. The team also provides care for overflow patients from General Internal Medicine, the Neurological Institute and General Surgery.

In this role, the ANM will collaborate closely with nurses, Clinical Techs, fellow Assistant Nurse Managers, Health Unit Coordinators and other medical staff to support daily operations and quality patient care. While the primary focus is not bedside staffing, the ANM may step in as needed to support staffing needs and typically serves as a charge nurse. Additional responsibilities include participating in interviews, conducting caregiver evaluations at 45 and 90 days, supporting onboarding and providing ongoing check-ins to promote caregiver success and team development. A caregiver in this position works days, 7:00am - 7:30pm and 1 x 4-hour admin shift or 2 x 7:00am - 7:30pm and 2 x 3:00pm - 11:30pm. Alternating holidays are expected and will work 6 weekend shifts per schedule.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:

• Supervise and coordinate unit clinical operations.
• Provide patient care.
• Facilitate communication and collaboration among unit caregivers and other departments/units.
• Review major operational patient care issues with Nurse Managers.
• Provide ongoing clinical evaluations of caregivers, counsel caregivers on performance issues, administer initial corrective actions and monitor attendance issues.
• Interview, select and orient new caregivers.
• Prepare work schedules to ensure adequate coverage on all shifts.
• Participate in and support quality improvement projects, outcomes, studies and research initiatives.
• Assume responsibilities of the Nurse Manager in their absence.

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• Graduate from an accredited school of Professional Nursing
• Bachelor's of Science in Nursing (BSN)
• Current state licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN)
• Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification through the American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross
• *If in a Critical Care area an Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) through American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross must be presented upon hire or within first year of employment.
• Two years of recent clinical nursing experience
• Strong demonstrated clinical knowledge and skills

Physical Requirements:

• Requires full range of motion, manual and finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination.
• Requires standing and walking for extensive periods of time.
• Requires corrected hearing and vision to normal range.
• Requires some exposure to communicable disease or bodily fluids.
• Medium Work - Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
• Physical Demand requirements are in excess of those for Light Work.

Personal Protective Equipment:

• Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.

The policy of Cleveland Clinic Health System and its system hospitals (Cleveland Clinic Health System) is to provide equal opportunity to all of our caregivers and applicants for employment in our drug free environment. All offers of employment are followed by testing for controlled substances.

Cleveland Clinic Health System administers an influenza prevention program. You will be required to comply with this program, which will include obtaining an influenza vaccination on an annual basis or obtaining an approved exemption.

Decisions concerning employment, transfers and promotions are made upon the basis of the best qualified candidate without regard to color, race, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, status as a disabled or Vietnam era veteran or any other characteristic protected by law. Information provided on this application may be shared with any Cleveland Clinic Health System facility.

Cleveland Clinic is pleased to be an equal employment opportunity employer.