Position Highlights:

• Job Type: MSU Manager
• Location: Community Hospital/Med Surg Unit
• Schedule: Full-Time (Exempt)

Essential Functions:

• Provide daily leadership, direction, and oversight of MSU, ensuring high-quality patient care and compliance with hospital policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements.
• Supervise, coach, and mentor staff, fostering professional growth, accountability, and engagement.
• Develop staffing schedules and determine appropriate staffing patterns to meet patient care needs, workload demands, and budget expectations.
• Monitor, analyze, and manage workforce productivity, ensuring appropriate resource allocation and alignment with organizational goals.
• Collaborate with the Assistant Chief Nursing Officer and HR in recruitment, selection, orientation, and retention of staff.
• Conduct performance evaluations, provide constructive feedback, and implement corrective actions when necessary.
• Facilitate staff education, training, and competency assessments; support career advancement and certification opportunities.
• Assist with budget preparation, monitoring, and cost-containment strategies while ensuring effective resource utilization.
• Maintain unit readiness for Joint Commission surveys, CMS reviews, and other regulatory audits; ensure staff adherence to accreditation, documentation, and safety standards.
• Actively support and participate in our designation as a Pathway to Excellence® organization, fostering a healthy work environment, nurse empowerment, and shared decision-making.
• Participate in the hospital’s inpatient nursing leadership on-call rotation, providing support and guidance to staff across nursing units outside of regular business hours.
• Occasionally step into direct staffing roles within MSU to support the team and ensure safe, continuous patient care during times of high census or staffing shortages or periodically as needed to maintain the direct care skillset. Tracking, identifying trends, and improving nurse-sensitive adverse events
• Collaborating with other nurse leaders to support optimal staffing, directing Float Pool resources as appropriate.
• Tracking and collaborating with the Education Department on competency management for MSU staff.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

• This position directly supervises the work of others.
• This position plans, monitors, and appraises job results; Conducts training; Implements and enforces systems, policies, and procedures; Maintains safe and healthy work environment by establishing and enforcing organization standards and adhering to legal regulations; Completes operations by developing schedules, assigning and monitoring work, gathering resources, implementing productivity standards, resolving operations problems, maintaining reference manuals, and implementing new procedures.

Qualifications –License, Education and/or Experience Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing (BSN) required.
• Master’s Degree in Nursing (MSN) preferred.
• CCRN, PCCN, or similar high acuity certification preferred.
• Current, unrestricted Registered Nurse (RN) license in the State of Colorado.
• Minimum of three (3) years of leadership experience on MSU or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Current BLS certification (required prior to employment).
• ACLS certification (required prior to employment).
• PALS certification (required within 6 months of hire).
• TNCC or TCAR (required within 6 months of hire).
• NE-BC within 3 years of hire or when eligibility criteria met.

Compensation:

• $53.00 - $60.95 per hour, depending on education and experience.
• Bonus: $20,000 (for RN's with 2 or more years of experience)
• Discretionary bonuses, relocation expenses, merit increase, market adjustments, recognition bonuses, and other forms of discretionary compensation may be available.

Benefits: 

• Medical, dental, vision insurance
• Life Insurance
• Free Parking
• Paid time off
• Education assistance
• 403(b) with employer matching
• Wellness Program
• Additional benefits based on employment status

Additional Information:

• Relocation: Must relocate to Grand Junction, CO 81505 before starting work.
• Work Location: In-person/onsite

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Community Hospital recognizes and appreciates the rich array of talents and perspectives that equal employment and diversity can offer our institution. As an equal opportunity employer, Community Hospital is committed to making all employment decisions based on valid requirements. No applicant shall be discriminated against in any terms, conditions or privileges of employment or otherwise be discriminated against because of the individual’s race, creed, color, religion, gender, national origin or ancestry, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, genetic information or veteran status. Community Hospital does not discriminate against any “qualified applicant with a disability” as defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act and will make reasonable accommodations, when they do not impose an undue hardship on the organization.

Education

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) required

• Master’s degree in Nursing, Healthcare Administration, or related field required

Experience

• Minimum of 10 years of Labor & Delivery clinical experience

• Minimum of 5 years of progressive leadership or management experience in a healthcare setting

Licensure & Certifications

• Current Registered Nurse (RN) license in the State of Colorado or ability to obtain

• BLS, ACLS and NRP certification required

• Additional maternal or neonatal certifications preferred