Assistant Nurse Manager - Main Operating Room Team 5: Otolaryngology, Oral Surgery, Ophthalmology

University of Iowa Health Care—recognized as one of the best hospitals in the United States—is Iowa's only comprehensive academic medical center and a regional referral center. Each day more than 12,000 employees, students, and volunteers work together to provide safe, quality health care and excellent service for our patients. Simply stated, our mission is: Changing Medicine. Changing Lives.®

The Assistant Nurse Manager with Main OR manages direct patient care nursing functions to ensure that health services, medical care, medical/health professions education, and evidence-based practice research programs are delivered effectively and efficiently. Positions in this job family will have direct patient care responsibilities. Efforts will focus on planning, organizing, directing, evaluating, and improving health care operations, clinical and education programs of clinical departments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Hire or assist in hiring nursing unit staff through effective and timely recommendations
• Develop and manage the talents, strengths and behaviors of assigned staff as directed by the Main OR Nurse Manager
• Assists in matters of promotion, transfers and disciplinary action, as directed by the Main OR Nurse Manager
• Coaches staff to participate in team decision-making and actively seeks participation from assigned staff on decision-making and customer service improvement activities
• Provides staff incentives/rewards for contributions towards achievement of service excellence
• Completes staff evaluations, for assigned staff, on time with written, solid justification
• Assure staff members are compliant with competencies, policies, procedures and regulations
• Understand and apply appropriately the provisions in the union contracts
• Creates an atmosphere which provides for effective recruitment and retention of qualified staff
• Encourages staff/employees to meet or exceed customer needs and expectations
• Actively help manage operating expenses for the unit name/ clinic name by monitoring the unit/clinic’s operating budget
• Review financial reports and provide insights to budget variances to nurse leaders
• Recommend budget ideas, resources and cost containment strategies through participation in the development of the unit operating budget, reviewing staffing plan, developing a plan for minor equipment and furniture replacement, reviewing service contracts, planning for new supply costs, etc.
• Assists the OR Nurse Manager in developing a staffing plan and is open to creativity in staff scheduling/flexibility
• Collaborate with nurse leaders to identify Quality Management and patient satisfaction opportunities for improvement
• Incorporates the principles of Service Excellence to ensure positive patient/customer relations
• Implement and maintain standards and quality plans
• Identifies inefficiencies in current practice/processes, demonstrates tolerance for change and develops a means to enhance the process
• Consistently makes sound judgments after gathering factual, objective information
• Creates and maintains a workplace of choice/ which motivates employees to work at optimal efficiency; encourages staff to regularly establish goals and objectives toward career development
• Engage staff in meeting plan goals
• Supervise care delivery and assist in coordinating patient care teams on the unit to maximize customer service and continuity of care
• Assists the Nurse Manager in developing flexible staffing and reallocating priorities to ensure optimal patient care
• Serve as a resource for patient care problems
• May provide some patient care
• Collaborate with nursing leaders to develop and implement unit/clinic or division strategic plans
• Uses customer feedback in planning and providing service
• Communicate with physicians, staff and other health care providers on a regular basis to promote effective and efficient operations within the unit/clinic
• Communicate with patients, families, and staff to address and resolve issues
• Utilizes human resources data and budgetary information to formulate recommendation to Nurse Manager and/or Directors/Clinical Functions
• Provide evaluative feedback for staff members and health care students
• Coaches the staff in implementation of standards of care, professional development, promotes staff specialty & clinical certifications, adherence to the standards of regulatory bodies (i.e., The Joint Commission, OSHA, and other regulatory bodies as appropriate)
• Work with clinical instructors/educators to facilitate clinical education experiences
• Invests in own continuous learning and skill enhancement
• Support unit evidence-based practice research initiatives by facilitating the incorporation of quality management and evidence-based practices in nursing care
• Supports changes in nursing care using evidence-based practice

Percent of Time: 100%
Schedule: Day Shift
Location: University Campus
Pay Grade: 5A 
P&S Pay Plan: Professional and Scientific Pay Structure
Benefits Highlights: Fringe benefit package including paid vacation, sick leave, health, dental, life, and disability insurance options, and generous employer contributions into retirement plans. Benefits https://hr.uiowa.edu/benefits

Required Qualifications:

• A Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing is required
• Current license to practice nursing in Iowa is required by date of hire
• One to three years of progressing leadership responsibilities
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent problem solving, decision making and critical thinking skills
• Proficiency with computer software applications. skill in leadership/management
• Demonstrates time management, organization of workload, delegation, attention to detail and thoroughness
• Collaborates and develops effective interpersonal relationships with nursing staff, medical staff, interdisciplinary teams, and other hospital departments
• Demonstrates effective teaching skills for staff and patient education
• One to three years scrubbing and circulating experience in the Operating Room
• Professional certification in nursing field (example: CNOR) required as soon as able to sit for the exam
• Professional job-related experience fostering or promoting a welcoming and respectful work/academic environment where people of all backgrounds and perspectives feel welcomed and appreciated; or demonstrated the ability to do so

Desired Qualifications:

• Leadership and/or manager experience
• Experience working in large academic medical center
• Experience working in a union environment 

Please attach a resume as part of the application process.  Job openings are posted for a minimum of 7 calendar days. This job may be removed from posting and filled any time after the minimum posting period has ended. For questions or additional information, please contact Fabiola Orozco at fabiola-orosco@uiowa.edu. 

Successful candidates will be required to self-disclose any conviction history and will be subject to a criminal background check and credential/education verification. Up to 5 professional references will be requested at a later step in the recruitment process.