Assistant Nursing Director PACU East

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Job Summary

Join a collaborative and highly skilled perioperative nursing team where you’ll play a key leadership role in coordinating patient care and supporting exceptional surgical outcomes. In this role, you will provide clinical leadership and oversight in the delivery of nursing services, partnering closely with interdisciplinary teams to ensure seamless patient care throughout the perioperative experience.

Acting as a central liaison across departments, you will help coordinate and triage patient care needs, support efficient clinical workflows, and contribute to a patient-centered environment focused on quality, safety, and teamwork. Under the direction of the Nursing Director, you will support the ongoing implementation and evaluation of high-quality nursing care for patients and families in a dynamic, fast-paced setting.

Department Summary

PACU East is a well-established, fast-paced, and highly collaborative unit dedicated to providing exceptional care to patients recovering from anesthesia and surgery. Our experienced team cares for a diverse patient population with both medical and surgical needs across multiple perioperative areas.

The department includes two Holding Areas and three PACUs, offering nurses the opportunity to develop a broad skillset while working alongside supportive colleagues in a team-oriented environment. Staff are encouraged to collaborate and float between PACU areas throughout the day to support patient flow, continuity of care, and operational excellence.

This is an excellent opportunity for nurses who thrive in an energetic clinical environment, enjoy variety in their day, and are passionate about delivering compassionate, high-quality perioperative care.

Job Description:

Essential Responsibilities

• Oversee daily department operations, including patient flow, acuity, staffing, throughput, and clinical priorities, while proactively addressing operational concerns and escalations.
• Provide clinical guidance and support to nursing staff, serving as a resource for patient care and practice-related questions.
• Support the implementation and communication of nursing practice standards, clinical updates, and competency development initiatives.
• Collaborate closely with interdisciplinary teams to ensure coordinated, efficient, and patient-centered care progression.
• Under the direction of the Nursing Director, support recruitment, onboarding, performance management, scheduling, staffing, payroll, and employee relations processes for nursing and support staff.
• Actively participate in departmental quality, safety, and professional practice initiatives, including Faculty Hours and performance improvement efforts.
• Provide day-to-day leadership and operational support to staff, including involvement in hiring, coaching, corrective action, performance evaluations, and other employment-related processes as appropriate.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Nursing required. Master's degree in Nursing preferred.

License Registered Nurse required., and Certificate 1 Basic Life Support required.

3-5 years related work experience required and 0-1 years supervisory/management experience required

Demonstrated Leadership

Experience with computer systems required, including web based applications and some Microsoft Office applications which may include Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Access.

Competencies:

Decision Making: Ability to make decisions with significant, broad implications for the management and operations of a major department or multiple departments. Participates in decisions on overall strategy and direction of the organization.

Problem Solving: Ability to address problems that are broad, complex and abstract, often involving Medical Center-wide issues and requiring substantial creativity, resourcefulness, staff engagement, Lean diagnostic techniques, negotiation and diplomacy to develop solutions.

Independence of Action: Ability to set direction and vision for major departments or multiple departments. Establishes priorities, develops policies and allocates resources.

Written Communications: Ability to communicate complex information in English effectively in writing to all levels of staff, management and external customers across functional areas.

Oral Communications: Ability to verbally communicate complex concepts in English and address sensitive situations, resolve conflicts, negotiate, motivate and persuade others.

Knowledge: Ability to demonstrate broad and comprehensive knowledge of theories, concepts, practices and policies with the ability to use them in complex and/or unprecedented situations across multiple functional areas.

Team Work: Ability to lead and direct multiple collaborative teams for large projects or groups both internal and external to the Medical Center and across functional areas. Results have significant implications for the management and operations of the organization.

Customer Service: Ability to lead operational initiatives to meet or exceed customer service standards and expectations in assigned unit(s) and/or across multiple areas in a timely and respectful manner.

Age based Competencies:
Employees in this job must be competent to provide patient care to the following age groups: Young adult: 16-30 years, Middle Age: 30 - 60 years, Elderly: 60 -.
Physical Nature of the Job:
Light work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force frequently to move objects. Some elements of the job are sedentary, but the employee will be required to stand for periods of time or move through out the hospital campus

 

 

Pay Range:

$150,000.00 USD - $220,000.00 USD

The pay range listed for this position is the annual base salary range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geography of work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law. 

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.

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