
Assistant Director, Nursing
Glen Cove, NYJob$105–170K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Assistant Director of Nursing oversees hospital operations and patient care activities in the absence of leadership. The role guides supervisors and team members, supports high-quality patient- and family-centered care, and maintains a professional work environment. It also monitors staffing and resources, supports regulatory compliance, and identifies opportunities for operational change using evidence-based strategies.
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Req Number 200988
Job Description
Oversees all areas of the hospital in absence of leadership. Maintains a professional environment that supports delivery of high-quality patient and family centered care.
Job Responsibility
1.Oversees and manages operations and patient care activities in all areas of facility in the absence of leadership.
2.Provides leadership to supervisors and team members by communicating and guiding toward achieving facility objectives.
3.Communicates, builds consensus, and guides departments toward achieving hospital objectives.
4.Promotes and maintains high quality patient and family centered care in a healing environment.
5.Maintains a professional work environment that fosters team member respect, engagement, accountability and optimal patient outcomes.
6.Promotes appreciative inquiry and evidence-based, ethical and compassionate practice.
7.Provides direction and guidance to patient care unit team members and supervisors in clinical and operational concerns in the absence of leadership.
8.May provide input into performance reviews, hiring, promotions and corrective actions.
9.Serves as a role model for standards of professional practice (clinical, educational and leadership).
10.Monitors personnel, supply and equipment considerations in the absence of leadership.
11.Assesses hospital activity, patient activity and personnel resources in order to ensure equitable and appropriate staffing.
12.Ensures adherence to the established care delivery model, using knowledge of scope and standards of practice.
13.Facilitates continual compliance with the JC, CMS, New York State, DOH, Public Health Law, HIPPA regulations and System, hospital and department standards.
14.Demonstrates broad understanding of the regulatory environment in order to ensure hospital compliance with requirements.
15.Maintains current knowledge of scope and standards of practice, healthcare legislation, and population health.
16.Identifies opportunities to initiate operational change within facility using evidence-based strategies and solutions.
17.Performs related duties as required. All responsibilities noted here are considered essential functions of the job under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Duties not mentioned here, but considered related are not essential functions.
Job Qualification
Bachelors of Science Degree, required. Masters, preferred. (Bachelors or Master's degree must be in nursing)
Current license to practice as a Registered Professional Nurse in New York State, required.
Specialized certifications, as needed.
6-10 years of nursing experience and 5-7 years of leadership/management experience, required.
*Additional Salary Detail
The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future.When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).
The salary range for this position is $105000.00-$170000.00/year
It is Northwell Health’s policy to provide equal employment opportunity and treat all applicants and employees equally regardless of their age, race, creed/religion, color, national origin, immigration status or citizenship status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, sex/gender, gender identity, gender expression, disability, pregnancy, genetic information or genetic predisposition or carrier status, marital or familial status, partnership status, victim of domestic violence, sexual or other reproductive health decisions, or other characteristics protected by applicable law.
How this job compares
Set against the 687 open Nursing Leadership jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$105–170K/yr
- New York median$127–167K/yr55 salary ranges
- US median$110–148K/yr247 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $138K, is 4% below the New York median midpoint ($143K) — in the middle half of Nursing Leadership salary ranges in New York.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 103 open Nursing Leadership jobs in New York and 687 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New York
- NYU Langone Medical Center17 open
- Living Legends Health14 open
- RochesterRegional Health10 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 6 years of experience — more than three in four Nursing Leadership postings that state a minimum ask for (median 3 years, across 520 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 282 of the 687 open Nursing Leadership jobs (41%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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