Nursing Supervisor

Overview:

Medical Professionals is seeking a dedicated and experienced Nursing Supervisor to join our client's healthcare team in Los Angeles. Under the supervision of the Deputy Chief, the Nursing Supervisor will provide culturally competent medical, services to low-income adult individuals in Los Angeles County. Provides leadership to medical assistants, counselors, phlebotomist, and other non-administrative staff as hired.

This is a 40 hour/week 4 month, contract to hire position

Compensation: $57.00 - $65.00 per hour

Schedule: Monday – Friday, 8am-5pm (40hr/week), fully onsite

Location: Los Angeles, CA 90036

The Nursing Supervisor will assure quality and cost-effective care for clinic patients, and will manage a patient’s course of treatment, and coordinate care with providers and other clinical support staff to ensure quality patient outcomes are achieved within established time frames with efficient utilization of resources. In addition, the Nursing Supervisor will work closely with the Deputy Chief to design, implement and monitor workflow processes at the designated Clinic.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide clinical support to medical providers before and after adult primary care visits so as to ensure the timely delivery of quality medical care.
• Interface with other non-administrative staff to ensure patients receive specialty referrals in a timely manner and are able to follow through so as not to interrupt patient care.
• Administer vaccines to adult patients per clinical guidelines.
• Provide and appropriately document health education to patients.
• Participate in quality improvement activities as directed by the Deputy Chief.
• Triage adult patients who walk in to clinic or call with acute medical concerns.
• Assist front office staff in making appropriate arrangements for patients who arrive late for appointments or for whom an appointment needs to be rescheduled, by reviewing the medical record and determining how soon and where the patient should be seen.
• Provide oversight, guidance, and provides leadership to LVN, medical assistants, phlebotomist, and other non-administrative staff as hired.
• Will perform yearly performance evaluations on supervisees.
• Will develop staff trainings/in-services for clinical staff
• Works in collaboration with the Deputy Chief to ensure on-going trainings and educational needs of clinical staff are met.
• Maintain adequate medical supplies and medications for clinical areas by monitoring supplies and ordering supplies as needed. Ensure that exam rooms are fully stocked and prepared for patient care.
• Ensures cost effective ordering of supplies.
• Will provide chronic disease management (CDM) for patients that are referred by providers and develop appropriate care plan.
• Will delegate to LVN appropriate CDM referrals.

OTHER DUTIES MAY BE ASSIGNED TO MEET BUSINESS NEEDS.

Requirements:

• A valid California Registered Nurse (RN) license issued by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN).
• Current Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) certification.
• Clinical experience as a registered nurse in an ambulatory health care clinic, preferably at a federally qualified health center (FQHC).
• Experience working in patient-centered care teams preferred.
• Knowledge and experience working with electronic health records, eClinicalWorks preferred.