Associate Clinical Manager - Operating Room City Campus - Full Time

Job description

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....