Baptist Health Shelby Hospital: 

Since our beginning in 1959 with just 35 beds, Baptist Health Shelby Hospital has been delivering quality and compassionate care to our neighbors in the Alabaster community. Today, we are a 252-bed facility accredited by The Joint Commission. Our high-quality care combined with our full range of healthcare services and treatments means you can receive the care you need close to home.  Baptist Health Shelby Hospital is a recognized leader in heart attack, heart failure and stroke, including Primary Stroke Center certification from The Joint Commission and Get With the Guidelines® Gold Plus Achievement in Stroke from the American Heart Association. In addition to advanced cardiovascular services, our wide scope of care includes bariatrics; diagnostic imaging; emergency room care; gynecology; oncology; orthopedics; physical therapy; a sleep disorder center; surgical care, including minimally invasive robotic surgery; urology; and wound care.

Position Summary  

Provides leadership & operational oversight for an inpatient direct care unit or units. Accountable for achievement of department and hospital goals in concert with other hospital and medical staff leadership.  

Essential Functions  

• Evaluates the environment and makes recommendations to ensure delivery of quality service, optimal patient flow and comfort, safety, and compliance with various standards of care, regulatory/governing bodies (e.g., OSHA, JCAHO), infection control, and risk management.  

• Plans, leads, organizes, directs, & evaluates the delivery of patient care to achieve sustained outcomes.  

• Facilitates a healthy environment that promotes patient and team member safety, high reliability of processes and quality  

• outcomes.  

• Embraces workplace diversity and participates in nursing organizational policy formulation and decision-making.  

• Ensures that a continual improvement approach is implemented to measure actual performance against established standards for nursing and patient care.  

• Serves as an agent of change, assisting leaders and team members in understanding the importance, necessity, impact, and process of change.  

• Analyzes, develops, and maintains an effective and efficient nursing delivery model that reflects patient and family needs, ultimately achieving desired outcomes.  

• Participates in the planning and implementation of new technologies, procedures, and services to support day-to-day operations.  

• Identifies, recruits, develops, and retains top talent.  

• Responsible for management of team members including recruitment, development, mentorship, retention, supervision, evaluation, and productivity.  

• Develops and manages unit/department budget and responds in a cost-effective manner to changing patient and team member requirements.  

• Knows and practices sound business and operational excellence.  

• Achieves financial and operational benchmarks by developing capital & operating budgets and monitoring all operational expenses.  

• Assures development, implementation, and evaluation of an evidence-based, quality clinical nursing practice consistent with nursing research, and organizational and national practice standards.  

• Demonstrates initiative and situational leadership skills.  

• Ensures the customer experience is exceptional.  

• Serves as a liaison between team members and nursing administration.  

• Demonstrates professional accountability by maintaining proficiency in assigned role and involvement in professional organizations.  

• Facilitates and supports team member involvement in professional and organizational activities.  

• Holds self and others accountable to Baptist Health and Orlando Health’s mission, vision, and values.  

• Demonstrates The Orlando Health Way: Assure, Engage, Unite.  

• Performs all other duties as assigned.  

• Manages various human resources functions including hiring, work assignments, coaching plans, and performance counseling.  

• Maintains reasonably regular, punctual attendance consistent with Baptist Health and Orlando Health policies, the ADA, FMLA, and other federal, state, and local standards.  

• Maintains compliance with all Baptist Health and Orlando Health policies and procedures.  

• Uses working knowledge of risk management concepts.  

• Participates in Process Improvement activities as assigned.  

• Interprets the appropriate information needed to identify each patient’s requirements relative to their age-specific needs and to provide nursing care needed as described in the unit/department’s policies and procedures.  

Education/Training  

Graduate of an approved school of nursing with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) required.  

Master of Science in Nursing (MSN), Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP), or Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) with Graduate degree in Business or health-related field preferred.  

Licensure/Certification  

• Current licensure as a registered nurse in the State of Alabama or Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC).  

• Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.  

• May require one or more of the following certifications based on the assigned patient population:  

• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) 

• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)  

• Neonatal Advanced Life Support (NALS)  

• Trauma Nurse Core Course (TNCC)  

• National leadership board certification through the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) or American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) within 2 years.  

Experience Two (2) years as a registered nurse in an acute care setting and one (1) year leadership experience.