When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

When you join Mount Auburn Hospital, part of Beth Israel Lahey Health, you become part of a close-knit community dedicated to exceptional patient care, professional growth, and teamwork. Our newly renovated Emergency Department provides an inspiring environment for nurses who are passionate about both bedside care and leadership development.

Job Description:

About the Emergency Department

• Modernized, Functional Space: Our ED features 31 care spaces, including dedicated behavioral health areas and a resuscitation bay—designed with nurses in mind to support safety, efficiency, and collaboration.
• Diverse Clinical Experience: Care for over 34,000 patients annually across all ages and acuity levels in a setting that blends the complexity of a teaching hospital with the warmth of a community environment.
• Specialized Excellence: Mount Auburn is a Primary Stroke Center with cath lab access and a Gold Plus Award from the American Heart Association.
• Academic Connection: As a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital, our nurses contribute to education, innovation, and the next generation of healthcare professionals.
• Supportive, Team-Focused Culture: Our nurses stay because they’re valued, supported, and part of something bigger.

About the Role

The Assistant Nurse Manager (ANM) partners closely with the Nurse Manager to provide leadership and operational support for the Emergency Department. This role is ideal for a skilled emergency nurse ready to take the next step into leadership—or a current leader seeking a dynamic, growth-oriented environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee and coordinate daily operations of the department, ensuring efficient patient flow, safe staffing, and quality outcomes.
• Provide hands-on clinical guidance and mentorship to nursing staff, fostering skill development and professional growth.
• Collaborate across departments to support seamless transitions of care and timely patient services.
• Assist with hiring, onboarding, scheduling, and performance feedback for nursing and support staff.
• Contribute to department initiatives related to quality, safety, and professional excellence.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in nursing required; Master’s preferred.
• Licensure: Registered Nurse (MA RN license); BLS and ACLS required; PALS, TNCC, and/or CEN preferred.
• Experience: 3–5 years of Emergency Department experience with some leadership or charge experience preferred.
• Strong clinical judgment, communication, and problem-solving skills.

Competencies:

1. Decision Making: Ability to make decisions with significant, broad implications for the management and operations of a major department or multiple departments. Participates in decisions on overall strategy and direction of the organization.

2. Problem Solving: Ability to address problems that are broad, complex and abstract, often involving Medical Center-wide issues and requiring substantial creativity, resourcefulness, staff engagement, lean diagnostic techniques, negotiation and diplomacy to develop solutions.

3. Independence of Action: Ability to set direction and vision for major departments or multiple departments. Establishes priorities, develops policies and allocates resources.

 

 

Pay Range:

$57.69 - $100.96

The pay range listed for this position is the base hourly wage 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.  Compensation may exceed the base hourly rate depending on shift differentials, call pay, premium pay, overtime pay, and other additional pay practices, as applicable to the position and in accordance with the law.

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.

More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled