Mgr Nurse - Fulltime - System Float Leader
Wellstar Health System
Summary
The System Float Nurse Manager provides clinical and operational leadership across assigned units and services within Wellstar Health System. This role leads teams in delivering safe, high-quality, patient-centered care while supporting employee engagement, retention, operational performance, and service excellence.
Job description
As a key leader for quality, safety, and workforce success, the Nurse Manager uses data, evidence-based practices, and strong collaboration to improve outcomes, manage resources, and create a positive work environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide clinical and operational leadership for assigned units and services across the health system.
- Promote a culture of patient safety, quality, accountability, and service excellence.
- Lead, coach, develop, and retain high-performing nursing teams.
- Foster collaboration among nursing staff, physicians, leaders, and interdisciplinary partners.
- Oversee staffing and effectively manage financial, human, and material resources.
- Use data, technology, and performance improvement practices to drive clinical and operational results.
- Support shared governance, evidence-based practice, and professional nursing development.
- Lead change initiatives and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, quality, and the patient experience.
- Ensure compliance with organizational policies and applicable regulatory, accreditation, licensure, and professional practice standards.
Minimum Qualifications:
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Nursing (BSN) required.
- Master's degree in Nursing preferred.
Experience
- Minimum 2 years of progressive nursing management experience required.
Licensure & Certification
- Current Georgia RN license or multistate RN license with privilege to practice in Georgia under the eNLC.
- Current BLS certification as required for the position.
Skills
- Strong leadership, communication, coaching, and relationship-building skills.
- Demonstrated ability to lead change and collaborate across diverse teams.
- Knowledge of healthcare operations, quality, safety, regulatory requirements, and financial/resource management.
- Ability to use data and technology to support decisions and improve outcomes.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Nursing (BSN) required
- Master's degree in Nursing preferred
- Minimum 2 years of progressive nursing management experience required
- Current Georgia RN license or multistate RN license with privilege to practice in Georgia under the eNLC
- Current BLS certification as required for the position
- Strong leadership, communication, coaching, and relationship-building skills
- Demonstrated ability to lead change and collaborate across diverse teams
- Knowledge of healthcare operations, quality, safety, regulatory requirements, and financial/resource management
- Ability to use data and technology to support decisions and improve outcomes
Company overview
Wellstar Health System is one of Georgia's largest and most comprehensive integrated healthcare systems, founded in 1993 and headquartered in Marietta, Georgia. As a non-profit health system, Wellstar operates with a mission to enhance the health and well-being of every person it serves through its PeopleCare approach. The system employs approximately 29,469 to 33,000 team members across multiple hospitals, health parks, medical offices, outpatient centers, pediatric centers, nursing facilities, and hospice and home care services. Wellstar is nationally recognized for operating Georgia's largest integrated trauma network and features the second-largest Emergency Department in the United States. The organization provides more than $1 billion annually in charity care and community programs, demonstrating its commitment to community health. Wellstar has earned numerous accolades including recognition on Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For, Best Workplaces in Health Care, and PEOPLE Companies that Care lists. The system embraces innovation through its venture firm Catalyst by Wellstar, which nurtures early-stage healthcare companies, and maintains academic partnerships with institutions like the Medical College of Georgia for caregiver training. With specialties spanning cardiovascular care, oncology, women's health, pediatrics, musculoskeletal services, and numerous other medical disciplines, Wellstar delivers comprehensive healthcare across all stages of life.