Associate Clinical Manager - Operating Room City Campus - Full Time

POSITION SUMMARY

The Associate Nurse Manager (ANM) supports the Clinical Nurse Manager in leading day-to-day unit operations with a strong focus on patient throughput, staffing coordination, and frontline leadership. This role serves as a bridge between bedside nursing staff and unit leadership, ensuring safe, timely, and efficient patient care delivery. The ANM plays a key role in managing patient flow, optimizing bed utilization, reducing discharge delays, and ensuring the unit meets operational and quality targets.

 

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate patient flow on a shift-to-shift basis, ensuring timely admissions, transfers, and discharges.
• Monitor discharge planning activities to reduce order-to-discharge and discharge-to-door times.
• Partner with Care Management, Transport, Environmental Services, and ancillary departments to remove throughput barriers.
• Oversee and support nursing staff in daily operations, ensuring adherence to standards of care and regulatory requirements.
• Manage on-shift staffing allocations, floating decisions, and surge capacity response.
• Escalate issues to appropriate leadership promptly and provide input on process improvement opportunities.
• Participate in unit-based throughput initiatives and performance improvement projects.
• Support onboarding, orientation, and ongoing competency development of staff.
• Act as a resource nurse as needed during high-acuity or surge situations.
• Foster and sustain a healthy work environment by modeling authentic leadership, promoting skilled communication, ensuring appropriate staffing, encouraging meaningful recognition, and engaging staff in shared decision-making to support morale, retention, and safe patient care.

 

QUALIFICATIONS

EDUCATION:

• Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing required.
• Bachelor's degree in nursing required; master's degree preferred.

LICENSE/CERTIFICATION:

• Currently licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in the State of New Jersey or current multi-state license required.
• American Heart Association BLS required.
• Advanced Life Support Certification, within your specialty (ACLS, PALS, or NRP) is required within 6 months of hire or transfer. Current incumbents must obtain within 6 months, by 8/1/2026.
• Approved professional nursing certification required within 1 year of hire or transfer. Current incumbents must obtain within 1 year, by 2/1/2027.

 

SPECIALITY

EXPERIENCE

ADVANCE

CERTIFICATION /

REQUIREMENTS

Emergency Room

2-4 years medical/surgical experience required; 2 years emergency room experience preferred.

TNCC, ACLS, and PALS or ENPC required

 

Emergency Room City

2-4 years medical/surgical experience required; 2 years emergency room experience preferred.

TNCC or ATCN Preferred

ACLS, and PALS or ENPC required.

Labor and Delivery

2-4 years labor and delivery experience required.

NRP and ACLS required.

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit/Intermediate Care Unit

2-4 years neonatal Intensive Care Unit experience required.

NRP and ACLS required

 

Mother/Baby Unit

2-4 years mother/baby experience preferred.

NRP and ACLS required

 

Operating Room

Minimum 1 year medical/surgical experience desired; 1-2 years operating room experience desired.

ACLS required

CNOR preferred

 

Critical Care

2-4 years medical/surgical experience required; 1-2 years critical care experience preferred.

ACLS required

CCRN preferred

 

Medical/Surgical

1-2 years medical/surgical experience preferred.

ACLS required

 

Psychiatry

1-2 years medical/surgical experience required; 1-2 years psychiatry experience preferred. Crisis intervention experience preferred for PIP.

 

Pediatrics

1-2 years medical/surgical experience required; 1-2 years pediatric experience strongly preferred.

PALS required

 

Radiology

2-4 years medical/surgical experience required; 1-2 interventional experience preferred. Critical Care exp