Nurse Unit Manager -ABI-MW

About Shepherd Center 

With five decades of experience, Shepherd Center provides world-class clinical care, research, and family support for people experiencing the most complex conditions, including spinal cord and brain injuries, multi-trauma, traumatic amputations, stroke, multiple sclerosis, and pain. An elite center ranked by U.S. News as one of the nation’s top hospitals for rehabilitation, Shepherd Center is also recognized as both Spinal Cord Injury and Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems. Shepherd is the only rehabilitation facility in the nation with an intensive care unit on-site, allowing us to care for the most complex patients and begin the rehabilitation process sooner. Shepherd Center treats thousands of patients annually with unmatched expertise and unwavering compassion to help them begin again.

Shepherd Center's culture is one of hope, humor, and hard work. You will enjoy career growth, strong relationships with co-workers, strong support from leadership, and fun activities that have kept over 12% of staff members working at Shepherd for more than 20 years.  

The Nursing Unit Manager position ensures that the ANA scope and standards of practice and the code of ethics for nurses are the foundation for nursing practice of the unit(s) The Unit Manager interacts with and contributes to the professional development of all unit staff practicing in a Shared Governance model of nursing practice. Addtionally, the Nurse Manager is responsible for the overall operation and workflow of the nursing unit.

The Nursing Unit Manager promotes high quality care, outcomes, nursing research and evidence based practice and contributes to building and maintaining a strong environment that facilitates collaboration with the transdisciplinary healthcare team to achieve quality outcomes.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Establishes unit specific nursing goals in concert with the program objectives prioritized by the hospital strategic plan developed within the five pillars of excellence.

• Works toward the strategic plan while keeping the mission of Shepherd Center in the forefront.

• Assumes responsibility for personnel, finance and resources of the unit(s).

• Champions the assessment/planning/implementation/evaluation of educational opportunities that enhance the professional growth of the nursing staff.

• Reviews and grant approval for educational opportunities that meet GNA guidelines for attaining contact hours.

• Serves as an educational consultant to members of the facility involved in the creation of educational opportunities.

• Lends support to the Education Committee as needed.

• Collaborates with nurse managers and implements activities that support engagement and retention.

• Practices proper safety techniques in accordance with Center and departmental policies and procedures. Responsible for the reporting of employee/patient/visitor injuries or accidents, or other safety issues to the supervisor and in the occurrence notification system.  

• Monitors and ensures compliance with all regulatory requirements, organizational standards, and policies and procedures related to area of responsibility. Identifies potential risk areas within area of responsibility and supports problem resolution process

Additional Responsibilities Nurse Unit Manager Clinical specific:

• Coordinates the placement of nursing students for clinical practicum.

• Collaborates with nurse education committee on new graduate residency program.

• Collaborates clinical staff recruitment with HR maintaining presence with regional programs - attends career fairs and conferences, provides guest lectures, hosts student conferences.

REQUIRED MINIMUM EDUCATION 

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing

REQUIRED MINIMUM CERTIFICATION

• Active Georgia RN license or NLC/eNLC Multistate License. 

• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification at orientation or within 3 months of employment.

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​REQUIRED MINIMUM EXPERIENCE

• Basic competencies are expected in negotiation and conflict resolution, nursing research and other scholarly activities, organizational behavior and development, patient and employee safety, performance improvement, practice innovation, professional nursing practice, standards of clinical nursing practice, systems for patient safety, trends in business practices. 

• Progressive management experience

• 10+ years of clinical and/or leadership experience.

REQUIRED MINIMUM SKILLS

• Basic computer skills.  Nursing skills appropriate to area of supervision.

• Completes orientation and initial assessment of competency successfully by determined due date.

• Completes mandatory education and annual competency assessment requirements by determined due date.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Master’s degree in Nursing

• ​2 or more years of work history with Shepherd Center (preferred).

• Sales and marketing experience a plus

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• Uses body, tools, or special devices to safely, effectively, and efficiently to move, guide, or place patients. Involves some latitude for judgement with regard to precision attained and the selection of what adaptive device(s) to utilize.

• Ability to transfer and position patients, consistent with lifting up to 50 lbs.

• Repetitive lifting, moving, squatting, kneeling, and crawling physical requirements.

WORKING CONDITIONS

• Some potential for exposure to blood and body fluids.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by people assigned to this classification.  They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties performed by the personnel so classified.