Regional One Health Extended Care Hospital (LTAC) is currently seeking a Nurse Manager.

Summary:

The Manager, Nursinghas 24/7 accountability for Regional One Health Extended Care Hospital (ECH) with responsibility to manage the day-to-day clinical operations in a fiscally responsive manner, ensuring that resources, including equipment and supplies are available for the staff to care for patients. Scope of responsibility includes, but is not limited to, patient safety and satisfaction, staff competency and education, performance improvement, budgeting, personnel management, and physician relations. This nurse leader role works collaboratively and proactively with staff, physicians, other leaders. Serves as a professional leader and a management representative of ECH. journey. Assists the CNO on specific projects and other duties as assigned, including organizational strategies, system priorities and overall health care trends. Provides support and direct patient care as needed alongside of the rest of the nursing leadership team.

Education Requirement:

BSN from an approved school/program. May consider ASN candidate with equivalent work (6 years) experience.

Experience Requirement:

At least three (3) years of full-time equivalent experience in the assigned clinical area. Supervisory / Leadership experience required..

Licensure/Certification Requirement:

Current licensesure as a Registered Nurse in the State of Tennessee required. BLS issued by the American Heart Association required.

Key Job Responsibilities:

Strategic Planning:

• Makes decisions based on alignment with organizational goals and strategies
• Understands organization’s integrated strategic plan and always works to its goals while communicating these to staff
• Works in collaboration with leadership in a co-management relationship of resources, staffing, and quality of care.
• Works with an orientation to meeting the current needs of patients as first priority.
• Communicates the importance of the organization’s mission, vision and values.
• Ensures employees understand their role and responsibilities in achieving organizational success.
• Ensures that employees are informed about department and hospital goals, strategies and action plans.

Staff Engagement:

• Demonstrates tenacity to meet organizational goals and encourages others during challenging times
• Invites staff input in planning work processes and creates a work context where teamwork is valued.
• Role models personal ownership of problems.
• Listens and responds to staff input and concerns, enlisting their help to solve problems or raises to supervisor.
• Promotes collaboration and teamwork.
• Involves staff in planning, decision-making and solving team conflicts.
• Cultivates a work environment that encourages interdepartmental cooperation, problem-solving and service delivery.
• Implements management policies and practices that support accountability and outcome achievement.

Learning Enviornment:

• Works to achieve needed change, applying a framework that learning and change are interdependent.
• Identifies educational needs with staff and plans actions and resources to support meeting the needs.
• Models continuous self-development and actively promotes continuing development opportunities for all staff.
• Supports and contributes to a long-term plan for staff development.
• Provides ongoing coaching and feedback.
• Provides timely and thorough performance reviews.
• Oversees staff educatation and training. Manages the Healthstream system.

Continuous Improvement:

• Understands and uses performance management tools for staff and work groups effectively and continually.
• Confronts behaviors that violate values or standards.
• Ensures compliance with all regulatory agencies and organization.
• Understands, interprets and consistently applies the organization’s policies and procedures.
• Utilizes tools, auditing processes, educational programs and decision making bodies to ensure a continuous state of regulatory and accreditation readiness.
• Oversees QAPI and enters NHSN data.

Manage Resources:

• Able to staff appropriately and manage staff efforts effectively.
• Understands and uses information technology.
• Uses recruitment, motivation, and retention strategies effectively.
• Able to lead or delegate and complete projects effectively.
• Able to make input to and implement budgets effectively.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Demonstrated skill in developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders.
• Provides evidence of change management skills.
• Excellent communication (verbal/written) skills, ability to give and follow written and oral instructions.
• Self-motivated, team oriented, and possesses leadership skills.
• Demonstrated technical, interpersonal and critical thinking skills with a thorough knowledge/understanding of professional nursing/patient care practices, State/Joint Commission standards and other regulatory requirements.
• Demonstrated analytical skills and ability to develop, present, implement and maintain activities within assigned program or organizational unit(s).
• Ability to plan and organize work for self and others
• Ability to exercise analytical judgment on work to be done
• Ability to judge the appropriate action in response to changes, circumstances or problems.
• Demonstrated ability to work with multiple independent projects simultaneously.
• Ability to identify with, share in, and display a commitment to the mission, philosophy, and objectives of the organization.

Supervision Provided by this Job:

• Responsible for the management of assigned staff within the unit-RNs, LPN, and CNAs.

Physical Demands/Conditions:

• Prolonged standing and walking, utilization of patient care equipment and other physical demands required in a patient care environment; exposure to infectious agents. Visual acuity is needed to assess color changes, to verify accuracy of written materials, and to administer and accurately prepare medications. Heavy Work - Exerting up to 150 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 75 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 30 pounds of force constantly to move objects. (May be further defined as "with or without assistance.")