Clinical Manager (RN)

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Receives/triages inquiries from the Referral Center, staff, patients, caregivers, referral sources and the community.
• Performs telephone assessment to determine needs of the caller.
• Develops and implements a plan to address the needs by (but not limited to): instruction, dispatching appropriate staff to make a patient visit, or contacting a physician.
• Assures that members of the interdisciplinary team have demonstrated the skills competencies to care for assigned patients.
• Affords assistance to the Executive Director as a liaison between Hospice and other professionals, including the AMD, community physicians, hospitals, nursing homes, and agencies.
• Enhances the integrity and clinical practice of the team by providing them with a consistent role model, mentor, instructor, and resource person.
• Assumes responsibility for own professional growth and development in order to maintain and improve competence.
• Evaluates own needs for support and uses identified system(s) to meet the need.
• Develops new skills by participating in ongoing education and maintaining knowledge of current nursing practice through journals, literature review, etc.
• Participates in quality improvement activities, QUAPI program and hospice sponsored inservice training.
• Serves on committees or teams as approved by the Executive Director.

Organizational/Regulatory Compliance

• Ensures compliance with all areas of federal, state and local laws and regulations as well as CHAP accreditation standards, Conditions of Participation, and the organization's standards of care, policies and procedures.
• Communicates with the appropriate physician(s) regarding the patient's condition, incorporating hospice expertise.
• Implements physician's orders by documenting and communicating to staff, patient/caregiver or facility.
• Utilizes appropriate resource services (ambulance, IV therapy, DME, inpatient facilities, and appropriate agencies) to implement orders.
• Performs the introductory (90 day) and annual performance review of assigned team members in accordance with the organization's policy and timelines.
• Affirms that licensed practical nurses, nursing assistants and other care assistants work under the direct supervision of a registered nurse.
• Follows all rules and regulations of the facility.

People/Communications

• Assigns and coordinates daily schedules of clinical staff, including PRN staff.
• Facilitates the provision of patient care services on a day to day basis, according to the plan of care.
• Works closely with team members to meet agency productivity standards.
• Coincides with the interdisciplinary team services, including on call personnel, inconjunction with the after hours department in order to assure 24 hour availability of patient care services.
• Affords assistance to the Executive Director to assess the need for new staff and to recruit, interview, and make hiring decisions in collaboration with Human Resources.
• Orients new staff to the team after HR and clinical orientations.
• Collaborates and communicates with the facility staff and CNA regarding patient status and the care provided.

Pay

Compensation Pay Range $96,103.54 - $143,040.51

This position requires consent to drug and/or alcohol testing after a conditional offer of employment is made, as well as on-going compliance with the Drug-Free Workplace Policy. All Chapters Health System employees performing services for Florida affiliates are submitted through the Florida Care Provider Background Screening Clearinghouse to verify eligibility after a conditional offer of employment is made as well as ongoing eligibility. For more information, please visit https://info.flclearinghouse.com/.