Assistant Nurse Manager

Where You'll Work

Founded in 1946, Dignity Health - French Hospital Medical Center is a 112-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in San Luis Obispo, California. Serving over 150,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including heart care, orthopedics, and a family birthing center. Additionally, French Hospital Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center, and has achieved an "A" Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group for every reporting period since 2012.

One Community. One Mission. One California


Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Assistant Nurse Manager, you will be a visionary leader, setting the standard for exceptional patient care and empowering our teams to achieve unparalleled clinical excellence.

Every day, you will passionately advocate for your team, translating their insights into actionable strategies that uplift both staff and patient experiences.

To thrive in this pivotal role, you will embody confident leadership, master tough conversations with grace, and excel as an educator at heart. Your exceptional communication will transform every interaction into a powerful opportunity to elevate understanding and drive our shared mission for superior patient outcomes.

• Demonstrates effective technical nursing skills as documented in unit skills checklists.
• Prepares for and directs patient care assignments based on acuity and competency of personnel.
• Ensures screening, evaluation, treatment of patients results in appropriate service delivery, positive clinical outcomes.
• Participates in hiring, training, coaching and termination of staff, as assigned by Director.
• Effectively supervises, orients, trains and evaluates staff ensuring effective staff performance and high standards of care.
• Identifies ongoing training needs of staff, plans annual in-services, classes and training.

In keeping with the Dignity Health care philosophy, the Assistant Nurse Manager (ANM) functions collaboratively and uses independent judgment to provide high quality care by assuring appropriate staffing on a shift basis or more as indicated by patient acuity and census. Is accountable for unit operations, supervision, staff development, evaluation, quality improvement, chart audits, patient care delivery and clinical outcomes on assigned shifts. Is responsible for providing clinical nursing leadership to unit staff and may provide direct patient care.

Job Requirements

Required

• Bachelors Of Science Nursing
• 3 years of critical care experience
• Demonstrated leadership skills
• Experience in related unit and demonstrated leadership skills
• Registered Nurse: Current CA RN license
• Basic Life Support - CPR - BLS
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support, within 90 Days

Preferred

• Mentorship experience
• Critical RN Adult/Neonatal/Pediatric/Acute (CCRN)