Clinical Supervisor (RN), Med Surg, Full Time, Varies

About the role

The Clinical Shift Supervisor at UC Health's West Chester Hospital is responsible for ensuring excellent patient care, managing patient flow, and supervising nursing staff. This role involves providing input on staff evaluations, completing evaluations for regular staff, assisting with cost containment, and managing all employees to achieve these goals.

Responsibilities

• Assists with developing and revising departmental standards, policies, and procedures.
• Manages staffing and scheduling for a cohort of staff and shifts.
• Promotes patient care safety standards and actively identifies opportunities for improvement in patient satisfaction.
• Facilitates conflict resolution and empowers staff to participate in decision-making through shared governance/UBC.
• Maintains, supports, and encourages professional development of staff.
• Ensures shift practice is compliant with state and federal medical laws (EMTALA, HIPAA, and House Bill 316).
• Engages staff in departmental performance improvement activities according to the department's PI plan.

Requirements

• Graduated from an accredited school of nursing.
• Minimum Bachelor of Science of Nursing degree required.
• Minimum of two to four years of clinical nursing experience in the area of clinical specialty.
• Knowledge of leadership and effective interpersonal communication skills.

Qualifications

• Licensed to practice in the State of Ohio.
• Ability to promote a strong culture and teamwork mindset.
• Experience with benchmarking internal processes to improve practice.
• Proficiency in resource management and operational leadership.

Skills

• Leadership and interpersonal communication skills.
• Effective problem-solving and conflict resolution abilities.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Ability to promote patient care safety standards.

Benefits

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
Employee Paid Short- and Long-Term Disability
401K
Tuition Reimbursement Opportunities
Community Discounts

Pay

Competitive salary commensurate with experience.

Schedule

Varying shifts available at West Chester Hospital.

Unit Details

Work with a strong culture and teamwork mindset. Team enjoys helping each other grow in their roles and nursing careers. Great learning opportunities and diversifying skillsets with patient needs.

Location

West Chester, OH, United States

UC Health

UC Health is an integrated academic health system serving Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. In partnership with the University of Cincinnati, UC Health combines clinical expertise and compassion with research and teaching—a combination that provides patients with options for even the most complex situations. Members of UC Health include: UC Medical Center, West Chester Hospital, University of Cincinnati Physicians and UC Health Ambulatory Services (with more than 900 board-certified clinicians and surgeons), Lindner Center of HOPE and several specialized institutes including: UC Gardner Neuroscience Institute and the University of Cincinnati Cancer Center. Many UC Health locations have received national recognition for outstanding quality and patient satisfaction.

About UC Health

UC Health is an EEO employer. Leadership Responsibilities Supervises staff assigned to their unit or center of excellence and demonstrates the ability to coach and mentor staff. Operational leadership of shift including patient flow and assignment/adjustment of resources to meet dynamic changing needs throughout the shift. Champion efficient throughput and capacity management. Benchmark internal processes to improve practice. Lead and implement operational improvement initiatives and assures compliance via staff coaching and mentoring. Ensures staff behaviors support and are consistent with the RITE Values, Missions and Vision of UC Health and University Hospital. Provide transformational leadership as related to PFCC. Assist with developing and revising of departmental standards, policies and procedures. Staffing and scheduling responsibility for cohort of staff and shift. Promote patient care safety standards. Actively identifying opportunities for improvement in patient satisfaction, perform trials and report back to leadership on results. Facilitate conflict resolution. Empower staff to participate in decision making through shared governance/UBC. Maintain, support and encourage others with professional development. Resource Management Demonstrates efficiency through the appropriate use of resources or supplies to support timely and effective delivery of patient care. Identifies needs for specific equipment and ensures adequate and properly functioning equipment and supplies are available for patient care. Identify operational needs for units including but not limited to needs related to capital equipment; medical supplies; office supplies; hours of practice; minor equipment; and equipment maintenance. Participate in the new hire process: Shadowing process, selection and oversee specific staff orientation to maintain established standards of care and to ensure competency. Specific professional development and coaching for assigned cohort of staff including quarterly rounding and annual performance appraisals. Provides immediate counseling for staff when specific behaviors or incidents negatively affect patient care or the general work environment. Write up incidents. Participates in the corrective action process. Promote staff retention, team building/collaboration. Performance Improvement/Regulatory Requirements Ensure shift practice is in compliance with state and federal medical laws (EMTALA, HIPAA and House Bill 316). Enforce and maintain corporate compliance. Identify and oversee risk management issues. Ensures staff compliance with established policies, procedures, standards and accreditation and licensing regulations. Actively involved and engage staff in departmental performance improvement (PI) activities according to department PI plan. Assist the manager in evaluating the quality of patient care and staff performance through: Personal observation. Facilitating quality improvement monitoring activities. Interviewing patients/families/staff. Reviewing documentation. Clinical Resource And Competency Maintain hospital wide and department specific nursing competencies and completes annual competencies in required time frame. Collaborate with the Department Educator and/or provides for orientation and educational needs identified in the department. Function as a clinical resource for area of clinical specialty. Promote the use of evidence based practice. Assist in identifying and operationalizing best practices in the unit. Facilitates ongoing staff professional growth.