About the role
Location: TGH Main Campus
The Assistant Nurse Manager provides clinical and operational leadership in a Level 1 Trauma Center, supporting the Nurse Manager in overseeing daily unit operations, patient care delivery, and staff performance. This role ensures safe, high-quality, evidence-based care while maintaining alignment with organizational standards, regulatory requirements, and financial targets. The Assistant Nurse Manager drives workforce engagement, supports talent management, and ensures effective coordination across interdisciplinary teams in a high-acuity environment.
Essential Functions:
- Support daily clinical operations of the assigned unit, ensuring safe, efficient, and patient-centered care delivery
- Provide direct patient care as needed, consistent with nursing standards and scope of practice
- Supervise, assign, and evaluate nursing and support staff to ensure optimal staffing and performance
- Assist in recruitment, interviewing, selection, and onboarding of staff
- Monitor and maintain compliance with clinical standards, regulatory requirements, and infection prevention protocols
- Support budget management, including labor utilization, productivity, and cost containment initiatives
- Participate in performance management, including coaching, corrective action, and performance evaluations
- Lead or support quality improvement initiatives, incorporating data analysis and evidence-based practice
- Coordinate interdisciplinary collaboration to optimize patient throughput, outcomes, and experience
- Ensure adherence to organizational policies, safety standards, and patient satisfaction goals
Education Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree Nursing
Licenses and Certifications
- Registered Nurse
Experience Qualifications
- Minimum of two (2) years of experience as a Registered Nurse in an acute care setting.
- Experience in high-acuity or trauma care setting.
Skills and Abilities
- Advanced knowledge of acute care nursing practices, including high-acuity and trauma patient management
- Proficiency in clinical operations management, including staffing models, patient flow, and throughput optimization
- Strong understanding of regulatory and accreditation standards
- Ability to interpret and act on clinical and operational data, including quality metrics and financial reports
- Knowledge of performance management frameworks, including coaching, evaluation, and corrective action processes
- Skilled in conflict resolution, negotiation, and stakeholder alignment in complex clinical environments
- Proficiency in quality improvement methodologies
- Effective communication skills across interdisciplinary teams, including physicians and executive leadership
- Ability to manage competing priorities and make decisions in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment
- Working knowledge of workforce planning, scheduling systems, and labor management practices
TGH Main Campus (TGHMAIN)
1 Tampa General Circle
Tampa, 33601