Manager Nursing Inpatient - Emergency Center

About the job

At our company, our mission starts with our people. Guided by our HEART values of Humility, Excellence, Accountability, Respect, and Trust, we strive to create a workplace where teammates feel valued, supported, and empowered to do their best work every day. As a Manager of Inpatient Nursing - Emergency Center, you’ll provide frontline leadership and operational oversight for an inpatient clinical area, helping drive clinical excellence, staff engagement, efficient operations, and high-quality, family-centered patient care.

Responsibilities

• Maintains clinical competency and ensures patient physiologic, psychosocial, and developmental needs are met in a family-centered care environment
• Monitors and facilitates patient throughput to support safe, high-quality, and efficient care
• Coordinates patient care with physicians, nursing staff, ancillary departments, patients, families, and other health care team members
• Serves as a liaison among physicians, families, nursing staff, and ancillary departments to support communication and desired clinical outcomes
• Observes, identifies, and addresses human resources concerns for assigned staff
• Coaches, counsels, and develops nursing staff to support high-quality patient care and professional growth
• Monitors productivity and aligns staffing and resources with patient care needs
• Supports unit goals and communicates organizational strategy to staff
• Participates in unit-based quality initiatives and monitors clinical outcomes that demonstrate nursing excellence

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing required
• Three years of nursing experience required
• Registered Nurse license issued by the Texas Board of Nursing or through the Nursing Licensure Compact required
• Basic Life Support certification from the American Heart Association required
• Magnet-recognized certification required within one year of entering the role

As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and healthy workplace, all successful candidates will be required to undergo respiratory fit testing in compliance with occupational health and safety standards.

About Us

Texas Children’s presence in Austin helps support a pediatric population of more than half a million and keeps kids healthy and happy from birth to adulthood. Texas Children’s first health care location in Austin, Texas Children’s Urgent Care West Gate, opened in March 2018, providing high quality pediatric-focused care after hours and on weekends. There are now more than 15 Texas Children’s Pediatric primary care practices in the greater Austin area providing full-service family care including routine childhood immunizations, well visits, and sick care. Our Specialty Care Center in Austin includes a multidisciplinary group of pediatric specialists committed to providing comprehensive care across a wide spectrum of services. Texas Children’s Hospital North Austin, is our new state-of-the-art facility providing world-class pediatric and maternal care to Austin families.

To join our community of more than 15,000 dedicated team members, visit texaschildrenspeople.org.

Texas Children’s is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.

Additional Information

• Job Identification: 428189
• Job Category: Registered Nurse
• Posting Date: 2026-10-23
• Job Schedule: Full time
• Locations: 9835 N Lake Creek Pkwy, Austin, TX, 78717, US ()