Unit Manager

Job Summary

As a Unit Manager, you’ll lead daily nursing operations and help your team deliver safe, coordinated patient care. You’ll oversee staff, support clinical decision-making, and keep care practices aligned with facility policies and applicable healthcare regulations. Your impact: By coordinating assessments, care plans, and follow-up, you help patients and families receive consistent care that supports their health and well-being.

Responsibilities

• Manage and support nursing staff, assign work, and communicate priorities across the unit.
• Oversee patient assessment, vital signs, medication administration, documentation, and care planning.
• Coordinate intake, discharge planning, case management, and referrals with patients, families, and care teams.
• Monitor infection control, nursing policy compliance, medical records, and adherence to privacy requirements under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
• Review care quality and utilization, address concerns, and help resolve operational issues.

Requirements

• Nursing background and experience in nurse management, team management, supervising, or charge responsibilities; relevant patient care experience is essential.
• Knowledge of patient assessment, medical terminology, anatomy and physiology, medication administration, medical documentation, and state healthcare regulations.
• Familiarity with electronic health record (EHR) or electronic medical record (EMR) systems; Epic, Cerner, Athenahealth, and eClinicalWorks are examples.
• Relevant experience may include hospital, acute, critical or intensive care, medical-surgical, emergency, primary care, pediatrics, geriatrics, senior care, long-term care, nursing home, assisted living, home care, behavioral health, dialysis, or care for people with disabilities.
• Additional useful experience includes utilization review or management, ICD-9 or ICD-10 coding, diagnosis-related groups (DRGs), Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) coding, IV infusion or insertion, catheter care, tube feeding, ventilator or airway management, phlebotomy, triage, and infection control. Familiarity with dementia or memory care, developmental disabilities, trauma, intensive care units (ICU), pediatric intensive care units (PICU), operating rooms (OR), and cardiac catheterization may also be relevant.

Pay: From $33.00 per hour

Expected hours: No less than 24.0 per week

Benefits:

• 401(k)

License/Certification:

• RN License (Preferred)

Work Location: In person