SUPERVISOR, BSN - INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY

Job Summary 

The Supervisor, Interventional Radiology supervises, plans, organizes, and co-ordinates the activities and work flows of the perioperative staff employed in the PACU, SSU, Interventional Radiology, or Cardiology.  This position works with the managers and directors within preoperative services. The position also acts as a liaison between perioperative services and IT, customer service, patient accounting, nursing, and the employed and non-employed physicians when appropriate.  This position develops, implements, and manages reporting related to this position’s areas of responsibility including but not limited to utilization, charge reconciliation, efficiencies, and quality. The position plans, assesses, implements and evaluates the care for a designated group of patients. 

Essential Job Functions

• Articulate compelling program direction and translate direction into goals.
• Model and exemplify the Leadership Pledge in a consistent and proactive manner.
• Lead change in a complex healthcare environment.
• Align department with strategy map and continually work to implement drivers in support of Independence Health System’s mission and vision.
• Act promptly to resolve problems and initiate better ways of doing things by acting as a catalyst for change.
• Implement at least one process improvement initiative for department on an annual basis.
• Investigate root case analysis of recurring problems and take appropriate action.
• Tie contributions to bigger goals while influencing and persuading others by building commitment among diverse groups.
• Demonstrate ability to eliminate silos by modeling actions and setting example and influence others to think and act as a unified health system.
• Challenge oneself to a higher level of performance by taking responsibility for professional growth and development.
• Promote Independence Health System through participation in one community outreach or educational event per year.
• Hold self and others accountable and take responsibility for outcomes.
• Establish and maintain a safe working environment and assure staff complies with safety, environmental, and infection control guidelines.
• Equitably apply policies and procedures by issuing corrective action in a fair and consistent manner.
• Demonstrate expectation of confidentiality by continually encouraging staff to keep private information confidential and share information on a need to know basis.
• Assess customer’s needs, exceed customer expectations, and consider customers in decision making to improve customer satisfaction.
• Perform in accordance with Independence Health System’s behavioral standards in support of the mission, vision, and values.
• Actively and positively promote the Respect and Recognition initiatives by supporting staff participation in committee membership, activities, and projects.
• Analyze issues before acting, generate creative ideas, detect patterns and connections, and break down complex problems.
• Practice participatory leadership by involving staff in decision-making and problem solving.
• Act on most urgent tasks, leverage available resources, review own workload, implement workable systems, and provide clear direction.
• Provide constructive feedback to help others improve performance and articulate areas of deficiency.
• Provide opportunities for staff to actively provide input into decision-making process.
• Update stakeholders on project progress.
• Facilitate open communication, diffuse sources of conflict, demonstrate respect for others, and diplomatically negotiate solutions.
• Facilitate teamwork through coaching and mentoring staff.

Specialty Job Functions 

• Responsible for hiring, training, evaluating, scheduling, and educating departmental staff.
• Oversee the day to day management of the department and is responsible for work schedules, payroll, attendance, and PTO management.
• Collaborate with peers and CNCs across perioperative services to coordinate work and patient flow within areas of responsibility and across the continuum.
• Assist management and physician offices with changes requested to the schedule.
• Work with anesthesia and management to make changes to processes that ensures high quality care.
• Maintain patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential.
• Manage nursing supplies inventory by setting up systems to anticipate needs verifying receipt of supplies.
• Identify and organize patient care requirements by developing plans of care and putting support systems in place for potential and actual patients, and other persons in a position to understand care requirements.
• Organize and maintain safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules and regulations which provides emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families.
• Assist management in project management activities by facilitating meetings, developing materials for projects, and developing tools used for projects such as spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations.
• Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending education workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, and participating in professional societies.
• Keep abreast of new procedures, treatments, drugs, equipment related to the care of the postoperative patient to assure progressive Peri-operative care within areas of responsibility.
• Assure quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards, measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards, making or recommending necessary adjustments, and by following system/hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care set by state board of nursing, state nurse practice act, and other governing agency regulations.
• Protect patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations.
• Maintain continuity among nursing teams by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs using Nurse Knowledge Exchange techniques.
• Initiate any corrective action plans for staff not meeting performance standards.
• Assist department management in development of policies, procedures, practices and standards of the department.
• Other related duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing.
• Three (3) to five (5) years supervisory/management experience in a hospital setting.
• Strong leadership ability, good organizational skills, independent and critical thinking skills, sound judgment, and knowledge of legal aspects and liability of nursing practice.
• Strong ability to communicate complex and/or controversial topics and concepts to a wide and diverse audience.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook and Excel.

Preferred Qualifications 

• No preferred qualifications.

License, Certification & Clearances

• Current licensure to practice as a Registered Nurse in the State of Pennsylvania.
• Current Basic Life Support (BLS) approved curriculum of the American Heart Association (CPR and AED) program.
• Act 33 with renewal
• Act 34 with renewal
• Act 73 FBI Clearance
• Current PALS or completion within one year of entering position.
• Current ACLS or completion within six (6) months of entering position.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• This position has direct supervisory responsibilities and serves as a coach and mentor for other positions in the department. 

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

• Incumbents will be scheduled based on operational need (rotate shifts, standby, on-call, etc.).
• Travel may be expected locally between Independence Health locations. 

Equal Employment Opportunity

Independence Health and its affiliated companies are Equal Opportunity Employers. It is their policy to prohibit discrimination of any type and to afford equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, or genetic information, or any other classification protected by law. Independence Health and its affiliated companies will comply with all applicable laws and regulations.

Disclaimer

This job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of all activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Moreover, duties, responsibilities and activities may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.

Work Environment

Physical Demands