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Assistant Nurse Manager
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2026-0602
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VMC Main Campus
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Critical Care
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Day/Evening
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Full Time
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1
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Renton, WA
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Min $116,909 - Max $175,364 /annually DOE
Job Description:
VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER
JOB DESCRIPTION
The position description is a guide to the critical duties and essential functions of the job, not an all-inclusive list of responsibilities, qualifications, physical demands, and work environment conditions. Position descriptions are reviewed and revised to meet the changing needs of the organization.
TITLE: Assistant Nurse Manager
JOB OVERVIEW: Under general direction by the Nurse Manager, the Assistant Nurse Manager (ANM) utilizes the nursing process to prescribe, prioritize, delegate, and provide safe, therapeutic allocation of nursing resources to patients/families. The ANM makes independent judgments, decisions, and acts regarding a wide range of routine and complex staffing and unit workflow issues. The ANM collaborates with appropriate disciplines to coordinate continuity of patient care from admission through discharge in support of the medical and nursing plans of care.
DEPARTMENT: Patient Care Services
WORK HOURS: As required to fulfill responsibilities
REPORTS TO: Nurse Manager, Director, or designee
PREREQUISITES:
Minimum three years of professional nursing experience, including demonstrated skill and preference for adult education (preceptor, charge nurse, unit-based skills, etc.).
QUALIFICATIONS:
Demonstrates leadership skills with the ability to lead and manage a team, utilize clinical judgment, clinical inquiry, and systems thinking.
UNIQUE PHYSICAL/MENTAL DEMANDS, ENVIRONMENT AND WORKING CONDITIONS:
Requires full range of body motion, including handling and lifting patients. Manual and finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination, required. Requires standing and walking for extensive periods of time. Requires ability to lift and carry items weighing up to 40 pounds in emergency situations. Requires correct vision and hearing to normal range. Requires ability to communicate effectively in oral and written fashion. Requires working under changing conditions. Requires exposure to communicable diseases or body fluids and other conditions common to the clinical environment.
PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:
The ANM performs specific leadership functions related to clinical practice, education, and/or management as delegated by and in collaboration with the Nurse Manager. The ANM provides leadership for unit and departmental activities that promote:
In addition, the ANM provides support to the unit management team for the assurance of a strong workflow processes and infrastructures that promote efficient and effective quality patient care. Support is provided to all staff any day and any shift as determined by need/demand. Emphasizing patient safety, staff safety, organizational integration, and service excellence the ANM provides leadership and resources that promote the following:
Assists in delivering effective staffing schedules that consider staff experience, skill mix, preference, and core matrix.
Timely clinical problem solving and communication of clinical issues at all levels (peer, staff, management, physician).
Staff Competency Assessment and Development
Partners with appropriate CNE/CNS to plan, implement and evaluate unit-based orientation program for permanent, temporary, and contract staff utilizing a performance-based development approach. Promotes continuity in competency development from core to PCS central to unit specific orientation and facilitates individualized orientation process for newly hired staff (RN and support staff).
Evaluates orientees' baseline attention to training, demonstrated skills, attitude and philosophy fit with VMC mission and values, records and reports concerns to unit manager.
Staff Continuing Education
Partners with CNE and CNS to plan, implement and evaluate educational offerings designed to enhance the delivery of quality care and safe practices. (In-services, CE, equipment education).
Partners with CNE to plans, implements, and evaluates educational offerings designed to enhance staff leadership and operational decision making (Charge, Preceptor).
Participates in programs that support staff education and development (CPR instructor, core curriculum, ANM orientation, and consortium).
Consultation/Support of Quality/Safety Priorities
Operations/Workflow
Internal Relations /Teamwork
Inspires teams and individuals to give their best to achieve desired patient, team and organizational outcomes
Revised: 5/21
Grade: NC13
FLSA: E
CC: Various
Job Qualifications:
PREREQUISITES:
Minimum three years of professional nursing experience, including demonstrated skill and preference for adult education (preceptor, charge nurse, unit-based skills, etc.).
QUALIFICATIONS:
Demonstrates leadership skills with the ability to lead and manage a team, utilize clinical judgment, clinical inquiry, and systems thinking.
UNIQUE PHYSICAL/MENTAL DEMANDS, ENVIRONMENT AND WORKING CONDITIONS:
Requires full range of body motion, including handling and lifting patients. Manual and finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination, required. Requires standing and walking for extensive periods of time. Requires ability to lift and carry items weighing up to 40 pounds in emergency situations. Requires correct vision and hearing to normal range. Requires ability to communicate effectively in oral and written fashion. Requires working under changing conditions. Requires exposure to communicable diseases or body fluids and other conditions common to the clinical environment.