Assistant Nurse Manager (ANM) - Gastroenterology & Hepatology

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The Assistant Nurse Manager plays a key leadership role in supporting the daily clinical operations of outpatient clinics, ensuring efficient workflows and the delivery of high-quality, patient-centered care. This role provides professional nursing care to a defined patient population across multiple clinical settings while coordinating resources to meet clinical and operational goals. 

In collaboration with the Nurse Manager, the Assistant Nurse Manager oversees registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, medical assistants, and other patient care staff within the designated service line. Responsibilities include anticipating and resolving patient care and personnel issues, promoting excellence in clinical practice, and supporting staff development. The role also contributes to recruitment, hiring, onboarding, performance evaluations, and continuous performance improvement initiatives to maintain safe, effective, and efficient clinical operations. 

 
A caregiver in this position works nights, 7:00pm to 7:30am.   
 

A caregiver who excels in this role will:  

• Supervise and coordinate unit clinical operations.  
• Provide patient care.  
• Facilitate communication and collaboration among unit caregivers and other departments/units.  
• Review major operational patient care issues with Nurse Managers.  
• Provide ongoing clinical evaluations of caregivers, counsel caregivers on performance issues, administer initial corrective actions and monitor attendance issues. 
• Interview, select and orient new caregivers.  
• Prepare work schedules to ensure adequate coverage on all shifts.  
• Participate in and support quality improvement projects, outcomes, studies and research initiatives.  
• Assume responsibilities of the Nurse Manager in their absence.  

 
Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:  

• Graduate from an accredited school of professional nursing 
• Bachelor’s degree in nursing (BSN)  
• Current state licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN)  
• Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification through the American Heart Association (AHA) Or the American Red Cross 
• Two years of recent clinical nursing experience  
• Strong demonstrated clinical knowledge and skills  

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• 3-5 years’ experience in an acute setting
• Med-surg background strongly preferred

Physical Requirements:

• Requires full range of motion, manual and finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination.
• Requires standing and walking for extensive periods of time.
• Requires corrected hearing and vision to normal range.
• Requires some exposure to communicable disease or bodily fluids.
• Medium Work - Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
• Physical Demand requirements are in excess of those for Light Work.

Personal Protective Equipment:

• Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.

The policy of Cleveland Clinic Health System and its system hospitals (Cleveland Clinic Health System) is to provide equal opportunity to all of our caregivers and applicants for employment in our drug free environment. All offers of employment are followed by testing for controlled substances.

Cleveland Clinic Health System administers an influenza prevention program. You will be required to comply with this program, which will include obtaining an influenza vaccination on an annual basis or obtaining an approved exemption.

Decisions concerning employment, transfers and promotions are made upon the basis of the best qualified candidate without regard to color, race, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, status as a disabled or Vietnam era veteran or any other characteristic protected by law. Information provided on this application may be shared with any Cleveland Clinic Health System facility. 

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Cleveland Clinic is pleased to be an equal employment opportunity employer.