When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.
Direct supervisor for a defined segment of the population in a patient care or business area, including responsibility for daily clinical operations and people management. Reports to the Manager/Director of the Unit.Job Description:
Major Responsibilities:
a. Performs all duties of a Staff RN as necessary.
b. Able to provide anticipatory planning related to the needs of patients, staffing and unit needs.
c. Supports the clinical and professional development of nursing staff through mentoring and role modeling. Recommends specific programming to build the clinical skill set of staff. Engages the staff in clinical rounds and provides formal and information educational opportunities on the unit to improve the clinical skills of staff.
d. Reviews and shares data on patient outcomes on the unit and acts as a liaison to the Nursing Quality Council. Works with team members, manager and physicians to review performance improvement indicators based on best practices and works to implement and evaluate unit-based improvement initiatives.
e. Assimilates and applies research-based information to design, implement and evaluate patient plans of care. Supports staff in problem solving and in particular with complex unit based problems.
f. Communicates organizational information to all staff on a regular and timely basis; models excellent interdisciplinary communications.
g. Serves as a steward of resources: fiscal, personnel, materials and time. Is knowledgeable and can articulate the professional scope and standards of practice for their practice area.
h. Responsible for human resources management of staff including evaluating, developing, addressing and resolving clinical practice and/or behavioral issues that impact the delivery of care on the unit. Assists with hiring/firing decisions.
i. Supervises the daily work of the unit team members to ensure proper clinical care/care delivery, policy compliance, smooth technical operations, quality management (including analysis of STARS reports) and customer satisfaction. Demonstrates clinical leadership skill and is able to organize, manage, and evaluate the function of a team while maintaining a safe environment for staff and patients. Provides input to departmental budgets.
Requirements:
Additional Skills & Qualifications:
Pay Range:
$77,230.00 USD - $139,361.00 USDThe 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.
Anna Jaques Hospital is a 123 bed community hospital serving 17 cities and towns in the Merrimack Valley . The hospital offers a wide range of acute care services to meet the needs of our growing patient population including inpatient and outpatient surgery in fully digitized computerized operating room suites, cardiology including echocardiography and a cardiac cath lab, comprehensive cancer services, orthopedics, nuclear medicine, laboratory, noninvasive vascular lab, joint replacement program and birth center.
Programs include the number one wound center in the nation, a primary stroke service, and Level III Trauma Center . Diagnostic imaging services for patients include MRI, CT, PET, and the PACS digital x-ray system. In addition, we are one of only three healthcare communities to be selected for the pilot Massachusetts e-Health Collaborative. Due to the dedication of our physicians, we are one of the first communities in Massachusetts to implement electronic health records, system-wide, for the safety of our patients.

The hospitals Non Invasive Vascular laboratory was accredited by the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Vascular Laboratories (ICAVL).
For the second year in a row, the American Association for Respiratory Care awarded the hospital its Quality Respiratory Care Recognition. The hospital had no ventilator acquired pneumonia cases during the last year.
The Wound Healing & Hyperbaric Center is the only such center to receive full accreditation from the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) in Massachusetts .
The hospital is accredited by The Joint Commission, an organization that surveys and rates the performance of hospitals at least every three years. The Joint Commission Dedicated, good employees are one of your strengths. You have a lot to be proud of.