Assistant Nurse Manager-Specialty Clinics

Seeking a patient centered Assistant Nurse Manager (ANM) to support our Iowa Health Care Clinics. The specialties that the ANM will support are Urology, Endocrine and Neurology.  This position will provide managerial and clinical nursing leadership for clinical outpatient services at the Iowa City Northgate clinic location under the direction of Nurse Manager to assure that all staff provide safe clinical care and have the education, methods, and resources to accomplish performance objectives. This position has some involvement in direct patient care as well as planning, organizing, directing, evaluating, and improving health care operations, clinical education programs and research programs of clinical and health service departments. This position supports our clinics and will travel between clinics to provide continued support.

• Human Resources Management

  • Hiring
  • Assist in hiring nursing unit staff through effective and timely recommendations.  
• Staff Development
  • Develop and manage the talents, strengths and behaviors of assigned staff as directed by upper management.
  • Assists in matters of promotion, transfers and disciplinary action, as directed by upper management.
  • Coaches staff to participate in team decision-making and actively seek participation from assigned staff on decision-making and customer service improvement activities.
  • Provides staff incentives/rewards for contributions towards achievement of service excellence.
• Performance Management
  • Completes staff evaluations, for assigned staff, on time with written, solid justification.
  • Assure staff members are compliant with competencies, policies, procedures and regulations.
• Employee Labor Relations
  • Understand and apply appropriately the provisions in the union contracts.
  • Creates an atmosphere which provides for effective recruitment and retention of qualified staff.
• Other
  • Ensures that all employees are treated with respect and in a manner consistent. 
  • Encourages staff/employees to meet or exceed customer needs and expectations. Provide detailed job responsibilities.
• Financial Management:
  • Actively help manage operating expenses by monitoring the unit/clinic’s operating budget.
  • Recommend budget ideas, resources and cost containment strategies through participation in the development of the unit operating budget, reviewing staffing plan, reviewing service contracts, planning for new supply costs, etc.
  • Assists the UICC management in developing a staffing plan and is open to creativity in staff scheduling/flexibility. 
• Operations, Standards of Care, Regulatory Compliance, Quality and Patient Satisfaction:
  • Collaborate with Clinics management and Ambulatory Nursing department to identify Quality Management and patient satisfaction opportunities for improvement.
  • Supply and Instrumentation management.
  • 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 develop