JOB DETAILSDepartment: Surgery, Urology, Wound & Healing, and Dermatology Clinics
FTE: 1.0 (80 hours per pay period)
Workdays: Monday - Friday
Shift(s): Days
Shift Length: 8 hours
Location: In-Person
Other:Purpose of this position: Within the context of the Hennepin County Medical Center Patient and Family - Centered Care (PFCC) Practice Model, and under general direction, performs work of considerable difficulty in planning, organizing, coordinating, evaluating, and directing nursing and clinical activities in the ambulatory clinics and telehealth nursing areas. Provides leadership, implements the vision, mission, core values, evidence-based practice, and standards of the organization specific to and nursing and clinical care done within the clinic
RESPONSIBILITIES- In partnership with operations manager, responsible for management of daily clinical operations in the ambulatory clinical care setting to include designing, implementing, and maintaining clinical services assuring competency of staff while promoting efficient patient flow
- Assures clinical staff is qualified and competent through the following job components:
- Reviews and establishes clinical staffing needs, completes necessary staffing request forms, reviews applicant paperwork, and conducts interviews
- In conjunction with the ambulatory education coordinators consults on curriculum and conducts specific employee orientation for clinical staff
- Completes clinical staff performance reviews per organizational guidelines
- Provides on-going monitoring and verification of clinical employee competencies
- If individual or clinical competency deficits are identified connects with clinical educators to develop, implement, and evaluate a training plan to meet identified area of deficit (can be both clinic wide or individual)
- Directs/supports compliance to regulatory and best practice standards, both in the clinical specific and organizational areas
- Audits and monitors clinical competency through independent and organizational driven tools and plans
- Knowledgeable and competent in the role of the clinical staff, able to competently fill in if needed in clinical roles to maintain patient safety and clinical staffing needs on an occasional basis
- Ensures a safe environment for patients, visitors, and staff and maintains compliance with all safety requirements impacting areas of responsibility
- Constantly determines and justifies daily and on-going clinical staffing needs
- Develops, leads, and maintains the clinical components of the Excellence Council to:
- Address and resolve clinical related issues
- Promote highest level of clinical practice for patient care and safety for all members of the clinical team within the scope of licensure (RN, MA, LPN)
- Works collaboratively with clinical staff to promote and improve and optimized, efficient, and effective clinical operations
- Promotes a congenial work environment among staff based on mutual respect
- Establishes and monitors clinical performance/quality improvement activities in the practice to comply with organizational expectations for providing effective, efficient, patient-centered care
- Engages clinical staff in monitoring clinical skills, actions, and tasks and facilitates staff selection of appropriate indicators
- Demonstrates and fosters good customer service skills to promote optimal patient satisfaction
- Maintains clinical knowledge base, monitors, evaluates, and if indicated leads clinic and organizational change to update processes and care to meet ever changing best practice guidelines
- Assists Clinic Manager in preparation of budget to ensure from a clinical perspective appropriate fiscal and human resource are allocated and appropriately used to support safe patient care within the best practice guidelines
- Assures on-going clinical compliance with accreditation, credentialing, regulatory and professional standards, as well as HHS policies and procedures impacting the clinical area
- Other functions as assigned
Communication:- Maintains effective working relations through strong communication skills up, down, and across the organization
- Meets with entire staff on a frequent basis, to do the following:
- Disseminates information
- Gives employees opportunity for input and problem solving
- Focuses on actions taken in such meetings
- Follows-up with e-mail, department newsletter, postings of important information
- Works closely with Medical Director and encourages and fosters participation of all physicians in running an efficient and effective clinic operation
Fiscal Management:- Assists Clinic Manger in developing and managing the clinical components of the budget
- Monitors staff use of overtime and develops suggested plan of correction of appropriate
QUALIFICATIONSMinimum Qualifications:- Nursing degree (Associate's or Bachelor's); willingness to obtain BS/BA within 5 years of hire
- Five or more years of ambulatory care experience, preferably in surgical or procedural clinic settings
- Three or more years in Ambulatory Care Clinical Leadership experience in ambulatory care, surgical services, or a comparable procedural environment
- Demonstrated experience leading clinical and operational improvement initiatives, including implementation of process improvements, and development of effective interdisciplinary care team models, care coordination, and provider support
- Minnesota nursing license (RN or APN)
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- An approved equivalent combination of education and experience
Preferred Qualifications:Knowledge/ Skills/ Abilities:General Skill-- Possesses excellent clinical nursing and leadership skills
- Analytical and planning skills
- Proactive and results oriented style
- Requires minimal day-to-day guidance
- Ability to independently implement ideas and strategies based on information given at meetings
- Visible to physicians and staff
Knowledge-- Demonstrated knowledge of best practice for ambulatory care nursing incorporating patient safety, satisfaction, access, employee engagement, and satisfaction for optimal patient outcomes
- Demonstrated understanding and facilitation of Health Team Concepts, ambulatory work flow, and designation of ambulatory roles and responsibilities in the ambulatory clinic setting
