Bayhealth

Assistant Nurse Manager

If you care about the opportunity to grow, to make a difference, to build a future and a life, then we just might have the career for you. Care to talk?

 Bayhealth Medical Center is Central and Southern Delaware’s healthcare leader with hospitals in Dover and Milford, as well as stand-alone Emergency Department in Smyrna and a hybrid Emergency Department and Urgent Care in Milton. We offer various practice settings throughout Kent and Sussex Counties. Bayhealth Medical Center Kent Campus is 90 minutes from Philadelphia, Washington, DC and Baltimore. Our Sussex Campus is 30 minutes to the Delaware beaches and relaxation in the sand!

Bayhealth Medical Center offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package (for eligible positions) including:

  • Generous Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
  • Matching 401(k)/403(b) Plans
  • Excellent Health, Dental, and Vision
  • Disability and Life Insurance options
  • On Site Child Care
  • Educational Reimbursement
  • Health Care and Dependent Care Flex Spending Accounts
  • Plus, an array of Voluntary Benefits to include Critical Care Coverage and more!

Location: Sussex Campus Hospital

Status: Full Time 80 Hours

Shift: Variable

General Summary:

The Assistant Nurse Manager (ANM) is a supervisor-level position that serves as a frontline nursing leader, supporting the operational, clinical, and people-focused functions of the nursing unit. Working in partnership with the Nurse Manager, the ANM helps ensure safe, high-quality patient care, staff engagement, efficient daily operations, and achievement of organizational goals.

The ANM provides supervisory oversight for daily unit activities, including staffing coordination, patient flow, quality and safety initiatives, regulatory compliance, and team development. This role serves as a resource and mentor for nursing staff, promotes collaboration across interdisciplinary teams, and assists with coaching, performance management, and professional development.

The Assistant Nurse Manager plays a key role in supporting a positive work environment, improving patient outcomes, enhancing employee engagement, and advancing strategic initiatives within the organization. The position helps maintain continuity of leadership presence on the unit while fostering accountability, communication, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities:

  • Places the care of the patient and their family as the priority. Rounds on patients daily to ensure they are receiving the required care. Collaborate with the healthcare team to ensure the patient's plan of care is appropriate based on the patient's needs.
  • Promotes and participates in staff learning and development. In collaboration with unit leadership, NPD, and staff, promote staff learning, competence, and collegial relationships to strengthen patient outcomes.
  • Recognizes and identifies patient and departmental needs and initiates appropriate action to support delivery of care. Communicates and supports changes in policy and procedures, and provides new information to staff, effectively addressing concerns.
  • Acts as a role model by maintaining clinical and leadership expertise through current practice and participation in learning opportunities.
  • Proactively coaches for performance improvement and achievement of unit/department goals.
  • Demonstrates active, productive participation in or leadership of unit/department-based or hospital-wide teams to represent nursing and improve patient outcomes.
  • Serves as an approachable role model and mentor to the staff.
  • Manages the nursing unit activities and executes facilitator responsibilities efficiently to ensure optimal patient care.
  • Assists in the scheduling and monitoring of staff educational programming. Assists in staff performance development and evaluation processes, delivering recognition and reinforcement in a timely fashion, and assures accountability for professional nursing practice.
  • Promotes positive, open communication among all members of the healthcare team as well as patients, families, and visitors. Promote self-care strategies.
  • Participates in ensuring documentation meets standards according to hospital policy and that quality measures are maintained.
  • Identifies safety and risk issues within the environment and works to correct them.
  • Responsible for assisting the Nurse Manager in assuring appropriate staffing to meet patient care needs of the unit/department. Collaborate with the team to ensure appropriate, balanced staffing to meet patient care needs 24/7. Collaborate with the Nurse Manager to monitor staffing effectiveness and the utilization of materials and resources.
  • Assists the Nurse Manager in monitoring payroll and staffing time utilization.
  • All other duties as assigned within the scope and range of job responsibilities.

Required Education, Credential(s) and Experience:

  • Education: Bachelor Degree; Nursing
  • Credential(s): Registered Nurse, Basic Life Support
  • Experience: Three (3) years of clinical nursing experience.

Preferred Education, Credential(s) and Experience:

  • Education: None
  • Credential(s): Nurse Executive - Board Certified
  • Experience: Previous leadership experience.

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