Job Description
Job Description
A-Line Staffing is now hiring an Administrative Manager RN in Newton, NJ 07860. The Administrative Manager would be working for a Major Healthcare System and has career growth potential.
Administrative Manager RN Highlights:
- Schedule: 3:00 PM–11:00 PM two days during the week and every other weekend 7:00 AM–7:30 PM. Regular rotating schedule: Monday, Tuesday, Saturday, Sunday, Thursday, Friday, then repeating every 2 weeks.
- Pay Range: $60-65 Hourly
Administrative Manager RN Responsibilities:
- Provides leadership and oversight for hospital operations during off-shifts, ensuring patient safety, quality care, and service excellence.
- Makes rounds in all patient care areas to assess patient needs and acuity. Responds to emergencies and assists as needed.
- Handles incidents, emergencies, and operational issues, escalating as needed. Facilitates patient throughput.
- Serves as the senior administrative authority on site during off shifts, making operational decisions until relieved by senior leadership or designated department managers.
- Ensures implementation of professional practice standards in alignment with organizational policies and evidence-based guidelines.
- Maintains compliance with applicable local, state, and federal regulations, OSHA, Joint Commission, and other relevant accrediting bodies.
- Responsible for DOH mandatory reporting of applicable events while on duty.
- Oversees performance and ensures adherence to patient safety initiatives and regulatory requirements.
- Creates a working environment that promotes positive employee engagement, effective communication, and collaboration.
- Identifies and implements ways to reduce and control expenses. Monitors staffing levels in relation to patient census and acuity.
- Implements workforce adjustments as needed, including sending staff home, placing them on standby, or reallocating personnel to other areas to ensure safe, cost-effective staffing while maintaining patient care standards.
- Communicates staffing decisions with the appropriate unit manager/director to ensure transparency and alignment with departmental needs.
- Serves as a key point of contact for addressing and resolving concerns from patients, staff members, visitors, and physicians in a timely and professional manner.
- Provides real-time support and communication to patients and families during times of dissatisfaction, conflict, or heightened emotion, ensuring compassionate, empathetic responses and service recovery.
- Promotes a culture of service excellence by modeling effective communication, empathy, and responsiveness.
- Investigates complaints or service disruptions and documents findings.
- Facilitates conflict resolution and escalates complex issues to senior leadership when necessary.
- Performs additional administrative responsibilities as requested to meet the needs of the department/organization.
- Participates on committees and actively supports Shared Governance.
- Provides guidance, feedback, and performance documentation for staff.
- Acts as liaison between nursing staff, department managers, and administrators-on-call.
- Ensures timely and accurate documentation of significant events, staffing adjustments, patient/family interactions, and service recovery actions, communicating to appropriate leaders by the next business day.
- Communicates quality performance concerns and patient care/safety concerns to appropriate personnel.
- Counsels and disciplines assigned personnel, documents issues, and follows up with appropriate managers.
- Coordinates activity in response to activation of emergency codes until relieved by senior management on premises or the presence of a manager with expertise in the specific area of concern.
- Acts as a liaison for the assignment of nursing personnel.
- Rewards and recognizes employee excellence.
- Assists with transfer/bed assignment of patients to appropriate, available beds.
- Leads hospital-wide emergency responses such as mass casualty incidents, IT system downtime, and utility failures until relieved by senior leadership.
- Promotes shared decision-making and professional autonomy through active participation in a professional governance structure.
- Maintains engagement with relevant professional organizations.
- Supports the organization’s Magnet journey by advancing nursing excellence and staff empowerment.
- Facilitates daily huddles to enhance communication and reinforce a culture of safety.
Administrative Manager RN Required Qualifications:
- Three (3) years of healthcare management experience.
- Valid Registered Nursing or compact License
- Bachelor's degree in Nursing
- BLS / ACLS Certification.
- Experience with quality initiatives, action plans, and auditing.
- Experience with Joint Commission preparation for disease-specific certification.
- Proven ability to coach teams and provide opportunities to facilitate teamwork.
- MS Office experience.
- Problem-solving, decision-making, and negotiation skills.
- Strong leadership skills.
Administrative Manager RN Preferred Qualifications:
- PALS Certification (required within 6 months of hire).
- Master's degree in Nursing Business Healthcare or Finance
- Basis Dysrhythmia
- Certification in area of specialty
If interested in this Administrative Manager RN job, apply today and a recruiter from A-Line Staffing will be in touch!