When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) is opening two newly established 25-bed inpatient medicine units (50 total beds) on Jenks 5 at the New England Baptist Hospital (NEBH) campus, located less than one mile from the BIDMC main campus. Scheduled to open in January 2027, these units provide a unique opportunity for an experienced nurse leader to help establish clinical practice, support staff development, and shape the culture of a brand-new care environment from the ground up.
As a Nurse Specialist (T1), you will serve as a clinical leader and educator, partnering with nursing leadership to advance professional nursing practice, support evidence-based care, and drive continuous improvement in patient outcomes and safety. In this role, you will support staff education, competency development, onboarding, and mentorship while fostering a culture of clinical excellence and lifelong learning.
As part of a Magnet-designated academic medical center, you’ll collaborate closely with nursing leadership and frontline staff to promote best practices, professional growth, and exceptional patient care. Orientation and training will take place at BIDMC’s main campus prior to the opening of the new units.
What you’ll find here:
A Magnet-designated nursing practice environment
The opportunity to build and support two brand-new inpatient medicine units
A collaborative partnership with nursing and interdisciplinary leadership
Opportunities to influence professional practice, education, and quality outcomes
A supportive culture focused on mentorship, development, and career growth
The ability to make a lasting impact on both experienced nurses and new nurse residents
Both BIDMC and New England Baptist Hospital are part of Beth Israel Lahey Health, united by a shared commitment to clinical excellence, innovation, and patient-centered care.
Help shape the future of nursing practice while building something exceptional from the very beginning.
Job Description:
Essential Responsibilities:
- Acts as a clinical leader who supports the development of staff utilizing the latest evidence-based practice relative to safe, cost-effective, and optimal nursing care.
- Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team to integrate the holistic nursing approach into a comprehensive plan of care for the patient/family. Identifies and prioritizes nursing care needs for a select population of patients/families.
- Develops and implements care conferences or programs for individual patients or populations of patients. Designs and evaluates innovative educational programs for patients/families, the community, and other healthcare providers.
- Creates and updates nursing policies, protocols, and procedures using evidence-based data to develop nurse-sensitive indicators in order to achieve positive outcomes.
- Collaborates with nurse specialists, unit based educators, and nursing directors on the creation and implementation of orientation, clinical competencies, and other clinical educational program development. Mentors nurses in the acquisition of new skills, the effective incorporation of evidence into practice, and in career development.
- Participates in the identification, selection, implementation and evaluation of products and equipment.
- Collaborates with nursing colleagues and other health care professionals in conducting research and publishing scholarly works, representing BIDMC, locally and nationally.
Required Qualifications:
- Master's degree in Nursing required.
- License Registered Nurse required
- American Heart Association – Basic Life support Certificate required.
- 3-5 years related work experience required.
- Experience with computer systems required, including web based applications and some Microsoft Office applications which may include Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Access.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Five years of successful work experience in nursing with two years in a specialty area.
- Current Clinical Nurse Specialist certification. Current Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) license to practice in Massachusetts.
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification.
Competencies:
Decision Making: Ability to make decisions that are guided by precedents, policies and objectives. Regularly makes decisions and recommendations on issues affecting a department or functional area.
Problem Solving: Ability to address problems that are highly varied, complex and often non-recurring, requiring staff input, innovative, creative, and Lean diagnostic techniques to resolve issues.
Independence of Action: Ability to set goals and determines how to accomplish defined results with some guidelines. Manager/Director provides broad guidance and overall direction.
Written Communications: Ability to summarize and communicate in English moderately complex information in varied written formats to internal and external customers.
Oral Communications: Ability to comprehend and communicate complex verbal information in English to medical center staff, patients, families and external customers.
Knowledge: Ability to demonstrate in-depth knowledge of concepts, practices and policies with the ability to use them in complex varied situations.
Team Work: Ability to lead and direct multiple collaborative teams for large projects or groups both internal and external to the Medical Center and across functional areas. Results have significant implications for the management and operations of the organization.
Customer Service: Ability to provide a high level of customer service and staff training to meet customer service standards and expectations for the assigned unit(s). Resolves service issues in the assigned unit(s) in a timely and respectful manner.
Age based Competencies:
Employees in this job must be competent to provide patient care to the following age groups: Neonatal:Birth to 6 months, Young adult: 16-30 years, Middle Age: 30 – 60 years, Elderly: 60 -.
Physical Nature of the Job:
Medium work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and or up to 20 pounds of force frequently. Job is physical in nature and employee needs to stand and/or move around through the majority of their shift.
Pay Range:
$83,845.00 USD – $216,674.00 USD
The pay range listed for this position is the annual base salary 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.
