Nurse Manager (RN) - Neurosurgery, Perioperative Services

Description

Management/Leadership
Req #: 73583

We are seeking an experienced Neurosurgery Operating Room Registered Nurse to join our growing surgical team. The ideal candidate will bring 3-5 years of hands-on neurosurgical OR experience, with demonstrated proficiency across a broad range of cases including craniotomies, laminectomies, spinal fusions, and related procedures. This role requires strong expertise in neurosurgical supplies, instrumentation, and specialized equipment, along with the leadership skills needed to effectively support and guide team members within the service line. Our Neurosurgery program currently operates across five dedicated ORs, with exciting plans to expand to an additional state-of-the-art hybrid OR shared between OR and IR services.

This is an on-site role based at our Bramhall Street campus location, normally scheduled 6:00 - 3:30 with a weekend commitment as Manager on Call. This Manager will lead a team of approximately 25 RN's and CST's.

Summary:

The Nurse Manager in collaboration with the Nursing Director is the vital link between the mission and vision of Maine Medical Center and the delivery of safe patient and family centered care that is compassionate, evidence-based, and provides highest quality care. Reporting through the Nursing Director, this role requires collaboration with staff, physicians, directors, other professional colleagues and occasionally senior administration, to meet the diverse and continually changing challenges of the health care environment. The Nurse Manager must be a creative, autonomous, future-oriented, risk-taking entrepreneur who applies nursing expertise, critical thinking, and effective leadership and management skills to ensure that quality care is provided through satisfied and inspired professionals on a daily basis.

Required Minimum Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs)

1. Education: BSN required. Masters preferred.
2. License/Certifications: Requires current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in the State of Maine.
3. Experience: Requires advanced knowledge and expertise in providing care in order to oversee others and serve as effective resource at a level normally acquired through two or three years of progressive experience.
4. Requires interpersonal and management skills in order to deal with complex management problems. Communicates effectively with unit and administrative personnel, physicians, a variety of other hospital staff and persons within the community.
5. Requires a high level of critical thinking and analytical skills to make management decisions at unit level and make recommendations for consideration on departmental issues.
6. Requires the ability to integrate the knowledge of teaching principles and counseling techniques in order to direct the growth of the unit staff.
7. Requires a high level of organization skills, effective time management and delegation strategies that include the ability to rapidly prioritize and adjust work flow according to changing unit needs.

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Additional Information

If you have questions about this role, please contact tabor.badger@mainehealth.org