Job Title & Specialty Area: OR Nursing Team Lead

Department: Operating Room

Location: Dallas, TX

Shift: Dayshift

Job Type: On-Site

Summary:
The Team Leader, Nursing OR is responsible for providing leadership to the front line staff in collaboration with the Clinical Manager or Practice Administrator in an operating room (OR) setting. Serves as a conduit between the front-line nursing employees and managers for the purpose of facilitating communication, overseeing orientation of new team members in collaboration with the Clinical Educators, and evaluating clinical practice with a particular focus on quality and performance improvement. Responsible for the results and development of assigned team members. Plans and executes day-to-day operational needs by setting priorities, planning for and addressing staffing needs, and coordinating work across other teams as needed. Provides guidance, coaching, and feedback to team members and provides significant input to employment decisions, addresses performance issues and administers performance reviews. Monitors key metrics and analyzes information to solve on-going problems to improve team performance. Serves in various clinical nursing roles (i.e., direct care nurse, charge nurse, etc.). The Team Leader, Nursing will spend 60% of their time in clinical shifts and 40% of their time in administrative/leadership, recognizing that at least 10% of their time in the clinical shifts is still spent coaching, mentoring, and developing staff.

Can support a schedule of 5(8's) or 4(10's). Start time 6:45AM.

Responsibilities:

• Provides performance feedback to staff, including the documentation and counseling of performance issues
• Maintains positive staff relations through Evidence Based Leadership and Just Culture
• Completes scouting reports and weekly rounding on staff
• Ensures that staff are kept abreast of changes within the unit, department, division, and organization
• Provides mentoring to staff and developmental opportunities to help team members achieve their career goals
• Administers disciplinary action to staff members when necessary, up to and including terminations, with support of manager and/or director and human resources
• Accountable to ensure that staff are meeting patient care needs, standards of safety, effectiveness, patient rights and guest relations
• Ensures that staff are delivering care with a team-orientation, an emphasis on good customer relations, sound clinical judgement and appropriate decision making abilities that take into consideration evidence based practice.
• Responsible for new hire scheduling with their assigned preceptors during orientation period
• Develops and maintains positive physician relations
• Responsible for ensuring direct reports timecards are accurate and complete prior to bi-weekly payroll signoff and holds staff accountable for repetitive discrepancies in their timecards
• Ensures clean sweeps/unit-based audits are conducted
• Assumes the Charge Nurse role (frequency varies by department)
• Takes on patient load shift (frequency varies by departments
• Continuously inquires about the condition of the patient through the ongoing process of questioning and evaluating the situation and directs treatment changes, if necessary, through collaboration with the healthcare team, inclusive of the patient and family.

Work Experience

• At least 2 years Clinical experience required
• Leadership experience preferred

Education

• BSN in Nursing

Holistic Benefits - How We'll Care for You:

• Employee portion of medical plan premiums are covered after 3 years
• 4%-10% employee savings plan match based on tenure
• Paid Parental Leave (up to 12 weeks)
• Caregiver Leave
• Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement