Description$20,000 SIGN ON BONUS WITH A 3 YEAR COMMITMENT!JOB SUMMARY:Oversee the daily operations of the surgery department. Responsible for the procurement and maintenance of equipment and supplies, staffing and training employees, and budgeting. May oversee pre-and post-operative care of patients. May require a master's degree in a related area and at least 10 years of experience in the field. Familiar with a variety if the field's concepts, practices, and procedures. Relies on extensive experience and judgement to plan and accomplish goals. Performs a variety of complex tasks. Leads and directs the work of others. A wide degree of creativity and latitude is required. Typically reports to an executive.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:- Integrates the department(s) and its services into the organization's primary mission
- Promotes a positive work environment which enhances employee and patient satisfaction
- Assumes a leadership role in professional activities through public speaking opportunities and participating in hospital and community activities
- Provides a written annual report, evaluating both personal and department objectives with plans for the next year
- Coordinates and integrates services within the department(s) and with other department
- Collaborates with other department leaders to design and deliver integrated patient care
- Directs, supervises and supports the on-going programs at SRMC
- Develops and implements policies and procedures that guide and support the provision of services
- Ensures all policies and procedures are current and relevant
- Ensures that care is delivered to each patient in accordance with the PA Nurse Practice Act, appropriate clinical standards, regulatory agencies and hospital policy
- Recommends a sufficient number of qualified and competent persons to provide care.
- Employs progressive discipline for attendance problems and provides supportive documentation for direct reports
- Ensures review and update of position control within required time frame
- Develops, Justifies and maintains fiscal plan for departments
- Review monthly operating reports, submits financial analysis and justification for negative monthly expenditures with recommendations for solutions
- Determines the qualifications and competence of department personnel who provide care services and who are not licensed independent practitioners
- Provides daily feedback as necessary to individual staff members regarding to their performance
- Participates in the interviewing, hiring, and termination of employees as needed
- Performs employee performance appraisals within the HR policy requirements
- Reviews employee performance appraisals within scope of responsibility
- Continuously assesses and improves the department's performance
- Makes daily rounds to assess the status of the patient and the quality of care delivered
- Conducts and/or attends monthly staff meetings and documents those meetings according to policy
- Utilizes monitoring tools to measure customer service and fiscal performance
- Demonstrates the ability to collect and analyze numerical and written data to reach logical conclusions
- Maintains appropriate quality control program
- Keeps leaders appraised of critical patients/patient care issues
- Participates in performance improvement activities, including data collection, development of indicators, chart review and evaluation criteria
- Provides for orientation, in-service education training and continuing education of all persons in the department(s)
- Ensures staff participation in mandatory in-service programs as evidenced by Competency Data Records.
- Ensures staff receive proper orientation prior to assuming patient care responsibilities. Meets regularly with the new employees to monitor progress and maintain orientation documentation
- Develops and maintains leadership capabilities of clinical managers, supervisors and charge nurses
- Recommends a space and other resources needed to by the department(s)
- Participates in the fiscal and strategic planning and marketing of services within the scope of responsibility
- Participates in selecting outside sources for needed services
- Maintains and recommends use of outside resources
Education: Preferred: Bachelor's of Nursing
Certification/Licensure: CPR Certification
Clearances: Required: As required by federal and State Law
