Clinical manager job description

As the Critical Care Nurse Manager, you are responsible for planning, implementing, and evaluating the delivery of overall nursing care to patients in our 24-bed department. In this role, you will design, coach, and lead your nursing staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training clinical team members in collaboration with your Clinical Supervisors, Charge RNs, and Preceptor staff. You will utilize your strong mentoring and leadership skills to ensure that staff is participating in available professional development opportunities and current in required training and certifications to allow them to provide the best care possible to our patients. In your role as the Critical Care Nurse Manager at UC Health, you will have the opportunity to take pride in being a part of a healthy, growing, and high functioning organization as you work to enrich the lives of those around you.
Responsibilities

As the Critical Care Nurse Manager, you are responsible for planning, implementing, and evaluating the delivery of overall nursing care to patients in our 24-bed department. In this role, you will design, coach, and lead your nursing staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training clinical team members in collaboration with your Clinical Supervisors, Charge RNs, and Preceptor staff. You will utilize your strong mentoring and leadership skills to ensure that staff is participating in available professional development opportunities and current in required training and certifications to allow them to provide the best care possible to our patients. In your role as the Critical Care Nurse Manager at UC Health, you will have the opportunity to take pride in being a part of a healthy, growing, and high functioning organization as you work to enrich the lives of those around you.

Qualifications

Qualifications for Internal Candidates
A strategic, adaptable, growth-oriented, and team-focused personality
Graduate of an accredited school of professional nursing
BSN required
A minimum of 3 years of experience as a charge nurse or other equivalent leadership experience is required. Three years of previous Critical Care management experience preferred.
Licensure in the State of Ohio as a Registered Professional Nurse (RN)
Req. Number: 2259
Address: 3188 Bellevue Avenue
City, State: Cincinnati, OH
Posted Date: 8/1/2022

Join Cleveland Clinic's Transplant Center where you will work alongside passionate caregivers and provide patient-first healthcare. Each year, thousands of lives are saved and transformed because of our innovative transplant expertise. Combining quality, excellence and the top transplant physicians and specialists, Cleveland Clinic Transplant Center is proud to be a leader in organ transplantation.

Our Transplant Center at Main Campus is looking to add an Organ Transplant Clinical Manager to their dedicated team of caregivers. Everyone in our center has a part in helping give our patients a second chance at life. In your role, you will make sure we are meeting our objectives and goals that are a part of our Organ Transplant Business Plan. Your duties will include but are not limited to:
-Leading and managing our nurses.

-Ensuring continuing nurse job satisfaction and fulfillment.

-Establishing QA metrics and foci for CQDirect managerial responsibility of the clinical nurse coordinators.

The ideal candidate is someone who:
- Has previous transplant and manager experience.

- Understands UNOS and OSOTC guidelines.

-Acts in a professional, caring, and helpful manner.

-Has outstanding communication skills.

Cleveland Clinic provides what matters most: career growth, delivering world-class care to our patients, continuous learning, exceptional benefits and working for an organization that offers many long-term career paths. Join us and experience a culture where opportunities to advance and the support to get there go hand-in-hand.
Responsibilities:
Leads and manages the nursing component of the organ transplant program. Ensures continuing nurse job satisfaction and fulfillment through the implementation of appropriate coordinator responsibilities and workload, teamwork and staff morale. Ensures patient safety and QA especially in the development of the Living Donor Program (kidney and liver only). Establishes QA metrics and foci for CQDirect managerial responsibility of the clinical nurse coordinators and matrix management responsibilities with the managers of the OR, ICUs and inpatient floors (adult and pediatrics). Other duties as assigned.
Education:
BSN required. MSN preferred.
Certifications:
Current state licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN). Nursing certification in specialty area preferred. Basic Life Support (BLS) through American Heart Association (AHA) required.
Complexity of Work:
Requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgment and the ability to work with minimal supervision. Must be able to work in a stressful environment and take appropriate action.
Work Experience:
Minimum five years' experience in organ procurement or transplantation. Progressively responsible managerial experience including hiring, orientation, scheduling and evaluation of employees in a clinical environment. Detailed knowledge of UNOS and OSOTC policies and program standards related to organ transplantation and allocation preferred. Experience with quality management and quality improvement.
Physical Requirements:
Requires full range of motion, manual and finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination. Requires standing and walking for extensive periods of time. Requires corrected hearing and vision to normal range. Requires some exposure to communicable disease or bodily fluids. Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
Personal Protective Equipment:
Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.
Keywords: transplant, Nurse Manager, liver

• 5 years experience in a professional discipline
• 5 years experience in a supervisory capacity in an acute or similar setting

SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE

• Computer skills, including competency with MS Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel)
• Ability to learn and efficiently use electronic medical records systems after initial training period
• Requires the ability to be a and consistent mentor to staff and use the disciplinary process appropriately
• Must have current knowledge of current regulatory and clinical practice standards
• Must have the clinical knowledge and critical thinking ability to effectively plan and provide coordination of patient care consistent with standards and regulations
• Must effectively plan, organize staff and resources, and prioritize work, thinking critically to effectively organize operations consistent with Sutter Heath's strategy and effectively solving problems as they arise
• Must have oral and written communication skills
• Must have interpersonal skills and role model customer service skills
• Must establish and maintain positive and effective working relationships with staff, physicians, patients, and other departments
• Flexibility and independence required to work competently and autonomously
• Self-started with a high degree of initiative, motivation, flexibility, and creativity
• At orientation and annually thereafter, must be able to meet core competencies for position and maintain licensure and professional development requirements as appropriate.

License/Certifications:

BLS-Basic Life Support Healthcare Provider - American Heart Association, RN-Registered Nurse of California - California Department of Consumer Affairs

Education:

Associate's

Job Shift:

Days

Schedule:

Full Time

Shift Hours:

8

Days of the Week:

Friday, Monday, Thursday, Tuesday, Wednesday

Weekend Requirements:

None

Benefits:

Yes

Unions:

No

Position Status:

Exempt

Weekly Hours:

40

Employee Status:

Regular

Number of Openings:

0

Sutter Health Affiliates are equal opportunity employers EOE/M/F/Disability/Veterans.

Schedule/Shift: Regular/ Days