• Assistant Nurse Manager

    Dignity Health (Bakersfield, CA)


    Responsibilities

    The Assistant Nurse Manager functions as a part of a leadership team designed to plan, organize, and control the health care process for applicable patient populations through the unit level management of assigned clinical process, while assuming the responsibility and accountability for assigned shift operations. Continually works toward achieving patient satisfaction, productivity, financial and operational objectives. The Assistant Nurse Manager coordinates unit responsibilities, supervises and assigns duties to unit staff. Reports directly to the Nurse Manager. Responsible for directing the patient care provided and the performance of unit associates on the respective shift. Responsibilities include: the staffing and scheduling, supervision, mentoring, and clinical guidance of nursing associates on the respective unit, and fiscal, clinical, and quality improvement oversight of the daily operations of the unit. Exhibits financial stewardship through appropriate staffing, flexing, productivity and management of overtime while ensuring requisite meal/rest periods are observed. This position requires the full understanding and active participation in fulfilling and facilitating the organizational mission, vision, values and overall strategic plan.

    Qualifications

    Minimum two years experience as a registered nurse.

     

    Associates Degree in Nursing, with progression towards obtaining Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing within three years of hire.

     

    Registered Nursing License (RN) in state of practice, Basic Life Support (BLS), ACLS, other credentials or credential modules may be REQUIRED.

     

    One year leadership experience preferred.

     

    Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing preferred.

     

    Overview

     

    Bakersfield Memorial Hospital includes 385 general acute beds, 48 licensed critical care beds, 13 state-of-the-art surgical suites, and a full-service Emergency Department with an Accredited Chest Pain Center and Nationally Certified Stroke Center. In addition, we offer a beautiful Family Care and Birthing Center, the Lauren Small Children's Center including the area's only Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Family Care Center, a Level II NICU, the Sarvanand Heart, and Brain Center with Kern County's first Bi-Plane Interventional Suite, the Center for Wound Care and Hyperbarics, and many more services. Memorial Hospital is a Children’s Miracle Network Hospital and is home to the Bakersfield Ronald McDonald House. Memorial Hospital is a member of Dignity Health and is a trusted community partner, serving residents of Bakersfield and Kern County with quality, compassionate care since 1956. Click here to learn more about Bakersfield Memorial Hospital.

     

    One Community. One Mission. One California

    Pay Range

    $44.63 - $70.24 /hour

     

    We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.