Nurse Manager, Full-Time Days, 8a-4p, Private Care, Atlantic Health

Job Description

Serves at the Clinical Director leading clinical, operational, and financial activities. Works collaboratively with physicians, clinical departments, nursing, management, and other stakeholders to ensure timely patient access to care, operational efficiency, department productivity, fiscal integrity and patient satisfaction. Primary responsibilities include human resources management, practice business development, daily operational efficiency, effectiveness, and regulatory compliance

Principal Accountabilities:

1. Provides oversight and operational support for the coordination and delivery of high-quality patient care 24/7. Leads and facilitates efficient patient flow processes, including admissions, transfers, and discharges, ensuring seamless transitions and optimal resource utilization. Conducts team meetings to foster team
engagement, uphold safety standards, and enhance the overall patient and family experience. Ensures payroll is accurate. Ensures appropriate staffing levels to meet patient acuity and volume, managing overtime, and aligning staffing with budgetary and productivity targets
2. Budget: Oversees the development, implementation, and management of annual clinical operating, capital, and staffing budgets, ensuring efficient resource utilization and alignment with financial objectives. Actively contributes to strategic planning efforts to support organizational priorities.
3. Performance Management: Leads the performance management process by conducting timely introductory and annual evaluations, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and individual development plans. Actively participates in strategic talent decisions, including recruitment and separation, while providing ongoing clinical and behavioral coaching to support staff excellence. Identifies and promotes professional development
opportunities to foster continuous learning and career advancement. Applies progressive disciplinary practices consistently and equitably, addressing performance and conduct issues promptly with thorough documentation.
4. Service: Cultivates a staff-driven experience that prioritizes exceptional service for patients, physicians, colleagues, the community. Actively involves staff in advancing standards of patient care excellence. Embodies and promotes the organization's vision, mission, values, and strategic priorities. Consistently evaluates the patient experience and implements focused action plans to enhance satisfaction and support the achievement of organizational objectives.
5. Growth: Serves as an effective representative of APCS and health system within the community, actively seeking opportunities to promote the organization.
6. Quality: 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. Oversees departmental
performance and ensures adherence to patient safety initiatives and regulatory requirements.
7. Professional Practice: Promotes shared decision making and professional autonomy through active participation in a professional governance structure. Maintains engagement with relevant professional organizations. Leads recruitment, retention and team engagement efforts, fostering a collaborative and
supportive departmental culture.
8. Develop, implement, and monitor the policies and procedures necessary to maintain the standards required by accrediting bodies and/or licensing agencies. Review and oversee all contracts with insurance companies, home care companies and state or county agencies. Assist, as needed, with arranging for the appropriate data to be gathered for insurance companies when requests are made for information to be sent to them for their records.
9. Assist agency staff with the implementation of computer programs and materials necessary to support all standards and provide appropriate management information, i.e. expiring authorization reports.
10. Serve as Acting Administrator and/or nursing resource person for office and field staff in the Director's absence.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing
• Current license as a Registered Nurse in the state of New Jersey.
• Certification in BLS
  

Preferred:

• Master's degree in Nursing, Business, Healthcare, or Finance preferred
• At least 4 years supervisory experience in a home health care setting.
• Experience working with home health care standards and quality assurance or risk management.
• Proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook & PowerPoint

About Us

At Atlantic Health, our promise to our communities is; Anyone who enters one of our facilities will receive the highest quality care delivered at the right time, at the right place, and at the right cost. This commitment is also echoed in the respect, development and opportunities we give to our more than 22,000 team members. Headquarters in Morristown, New Jersey, we are one of the leading non-profit health care systems in the nation. Our facilities and sites of care include:

• Atlantic Health Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ
• Atlantic Health Overlook Medical Center, Summit, NJ
• Atlantic Health Newton Medical Center, Newton, NJ
• Atlantic Health Chilton Medical Center, Pompton Plains, NJ
• Atlantic Health Hackettstown Medical Center, Hackettstown, NJ
• Atlantic Health Goryeb Children's Hospital, Morristown, NJ
• Atlantic Health CentraState Healthcare System, Freehold, NJ
• Atlantic Medical Group
• Atlantic Visiting Nurse
• Atlantic Mobile Health
• Atlantic Rehabilitation

We have more than 900 community-based healthcare providers affiliated through Atlantic Medical Group.

We have received awards and recognition for the services we have provided to our patients, team members and communities. Below are just a few of our accolades:

• Chosen for 17 years by Fortune as one of the magazine's "100 Best Companies to Work For."
• Atlantic Health Morristown and Atlantic Health Overlook Named by Newsweek as two of the "World's Best Hospitals" in 2026.
• Atlantic Health Morristown and Atlantic Health Overlook ranked within the top three hospitals in New Jersey by U.S. News & World Report's 2025-2026 Best Hospital rankings.
• Atlantic Health scored four "A" grades by The Leapfrog Group in its Fall 2025 Hospital Safety Grades, performance measures reflecting errors, accidents, injuries and injections, as well as systems hospitals have in place to prevent harm.
• Atlantic Health Morristown and Atlantic Health Overlook are New Jersey's only hospitals to be named among America's 50 Best hospitals by Healthgrades in 2026.
• Named by Becker's Healthcare as one of the "165 Top Places to Work in Healthcare - 2026.
• Atlantic Health Morristown, Atlantic Health Overlook, Atlantic Health Chilton and Atlantic Health Newton all Forbes Top Hospitals for 2026.
• Named by Newsweek as one of America's Greatest Workplaces for Inclusion & Diversity 2025.
• Atlantic Health rated LEVEL 9 - 2025 CHIME Digital Health Most Wired.

Our Home care and Hospice teams work with more than our patients, we work with their families, inside their homes and in their community. When you join our team, you also join theirs, bringing them your comfort, compassion, education, and expertise. We celebrate these close connections every day, by delivering the best comprehensive home care and hospice services possible.

Atlantic Health offers a competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards package that supports the health, financial security, and well-being of all team members. Offerings vary based on role level (Team Member, Director, Executive). Below is a general summary, with role-specific enhancements highlighted:

Team Member Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription Coverage (22.5 hours per week or above for full-time and part-time team members)
• Life & AD&D Insurance.
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability (with options to supplement)
• 403(b) Retirement Plan: Employer match, additional non-elective contribution
• PTO & Paid Sick Leave
• Tuition Assistance, Advancement & Academic Advising
• Parental, Adoption, Surrogacy Leave
• Backup and On-Site Childcare
• Well-Being Rewards
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Fertility Benefits, Healthy Pregnancy Program
• Flexible Spending & Commuter Accounts
• Pet, Home & Auto, Identity Theft and Legal Insurance

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Note: In Compliance with the NJ Pay Transparency Act (effective Sunday, June 1, 2025), all job postings will include the hourly wage or salary (or a range), as well as this summary of benefits. Final compensation and benefit eligibility may vary by role and employment status and will be confirmed at the time of offer.

EEO STATEMENT

Atlantic Health, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer and federal contractor or subcontractor and therefore abides by applicable laws to protect applicants and employees from discrimination in hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, fringe benefits, job training, classification, referral, and other aspects of employment, on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity and sexual orientation), national origin, citizenship status, disability, age, genetics, or veteran status.

Job Info

• Minimum Salary (Hourly Rate): 61.180000
• Maximum Salary (Hourly Rate): 107.690000
• Assignment Category: Full-time
• Hours per Week: 37.5
• Primary Shift: Day
• Salary Admin Plan: MGR