Nurse Leader - Nursing Floats - Nights

**Schedule: Full time, 40 hours per week - nights, primarily clinical with supervisory responsibilities**

**Join our team! As a Nurse Leader of the premier healthcare provider in the Finger Lakes region, you can enjoy a competitive pay rate, generous benefits, free on-site parking, an excellent staffing model and a modern, high-tech environment. You will focus on assisting the Director and Manager in all phases of unit activities surrounding management of clinical nursing practice and patient care delivery.**

• What will you do?** The Nurse Leader will spend time clinically and in a supervisory role.
• Responsible for assigning duties appropriately to associates.
• Serve as a role model for professional nursing and ancillary staff, sharing the responsibility of patient outcomes.
• Coordinates resources to meet and exceed the needs and expectations of our customers.
• Provides leadership and support to the nursing staff by demonstrating the ability to do the following: fosters collegial interdisciplinary and physician relationships utilizing excellent communication skills; serves as a clinical resource and mentor; provides coordination of unit activity and patient throughput; provides feedback in the evaluation of staff performance; facilitates unit activity to assure excellence in clinical outcomes and quality measures.
• Actively supports the philosophy, vision, mission, goals and objectives of the Department of Nursing and the Health System.
• Responsible for management of human resources; fostering interdisciplinary, collaborative relationships within the department and institution as a whole.
  
  

Required Job Specific Competencies

• Demonstrates excellent communication and organizational skills.
• Able to prioritize events to assure patient safety and customer satisfaction.
• Evidence of strong clinical expertise to assist others in assessing critical patients and assuring proper management. Demonstrates the ability to deliver and assure safe patient care utilizing the nursing process.
• Demonstrates the CARES values at all times.
  
  

Qualifications

• NYS license as a registered nurse.
• Current BLS certification. ACLS certification preferable or completed within one year, PALS certification preferable or completed within a one year
• Telemetry Credentialed
• PAS level III or IV preferred
  
  

Education

• A graduate of an approved school of nursing
• BSN required
• National certification preferred or a willingness to complete within a defined timeframe (less than 3 years).
  
  

Experience

• Minimum of three years recent medical-surgical nursing experience required.
• Evidence of previous leadership experience preferred
• Must possess a basic knowledge and skills in: ­ Leadership, ­Change management, ­Resource management, ­Effective oral and written communication
  
  

Complexity Of Duties

• Able to work collaboratively with all members of the health care team and manage a stressful environment with composure and professionalism.
• Able to work independently and use own judgment in daily management of the unit.
  
  

**The characteristics of the job require interpersonal skills that reflect: ­**

• The ability to deal effectively with a wide range of customers. ­
• A professional attitude that supports nursing services and hospital administration and reflects a positive working relationship with staff, physicians, and other departments. ­
• An adaptable approach to a frequently changing environment on the unit, in the hospital, and in the health care field. ­
• The ability to manage in a creative, organized, self-directed, and goal-oriented manner.
  
  

**Position Pay Range: $47.00-57.00/hour**

**Starting Pay: Based on experience**

• _Thompson Health is an EOE encouraging individuals with disabilities and veterans to apply._**