Clinical Assistant Nurse Manager NICU Full-Time Nights (Lakeland Highlands Hospital)

Clinical Assistant Nurse Manager

The Clinical Assistant Nurse Manager (CANM) is responsible for leading the shift operations within the clinical setting to ensure delivery of high-quality care, exceptional customer experience, and optimal patient flow. In conjunction with the Department Nursing Operations Manager and the Assistant Nursing Operations Manager (ANOM); the CANM provides guidance, fosters collaboration, and is responsible for the unit's clinical operations including patient care assignments, customer experience, productivity, and quality outcomes in settings where patients have an advanced illness or injury that routinely requires timely, intense, and complex care to stabilize and support the patient's medical condition. These areas require a lower caregiver-to-patient ratio and highly trained team members with advanced skills.

Responsibilities include exemplifying the mission, vision, and values of Orlando Health, participating in shared leadership structure, managing staffing assignments, coordinating patient flow, monitoring patient status, coordinating and/or participating in the delivery of patient care, serving as a resource supporting frontline team members and providers, interfacing with patients and families to enhance customer experience, participating in and/or leading safety huddles, embracing and promoting change and problem solving, assessing equipment needs, supporting and sustaining leader-driven initiatives, assisting with retention strategies for new team members, maintaining a regulatory ready environment of care, utilizing effective fiscal management skills, maintaining compliance with all Orlando Health policies and procedures, supporting strategic imperatives, serving as a coach and mentor for the nursing team, expressing ideas clearly and effectively in verbal and written communication, fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion, promoting a safe working environment, supporting and/or coordinating any follow-up related to WPV occurrences, supporting the Professional Practice Model, superior clinical and critical thinking skills for assigned unit/department, clinical expert and liaison ensuring care is provided congruent with Orlando Health policies and procedures, participating in the collection of unit/department information via audits to identify opportunities for improvement and trends, promoting high-quality nursing practice supported by evidence base practice, research, organization, and national standards.

Qualifications include a Bachelor of Science in Nursing Degree (BSN) preferred, a minimum of one year of experience as a Registered Nurse; acute care setting preferred, current licensure as a registered nurse in the State of Florida or Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC), current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification, certification in area of expertise; preferred, must have NICU experience, charge nurse and/or leadership experience preferred.