House Supervisor

About the Role

We're searching for a House Supervisor (Nights - Part Time), someone who works well in a fast-paced setting. In this position you will be responsible for ensuring seamless patient care and campus operations that fosters family centered care. Available 24 hours a day, seven day a week basis. Responsible for facilitation of patient flow, appropriate placement of patient bed assignments, requests for patient transfers, internal and external nursing unit staffing.

Responsibilities

• Ensures cost-effective and appropriate use of employee resources.
• Determine hospital wide patient flow and staffing needs as evidenced by actual staffing in collaboration with local leadership.
• Determines placement of float pool staff based on patient classification, census data and employee competencies as measured by appropriate distribution of the float pool each shift.
• In collaboration with unit Patient Care Manager (PCM) decisions to utilize and/or cancel agency, overtime and additional staff are made to ensure the delivery of high quality in a cost-effective manner as measured by patient classification system data.
• Works with charge nurses to determine unit staffing needs with feedback from the leadership teams in each unit.
• Ensures appropriate and timely placement of internal and external transfers for all patients requiring admission.
• Demonstrates strong effective interpersonal communication skills with patients, families, and staff.
• Acts as a clinical resource for nursing staff and ancillary personnel.
• Serves as the Clinical leader/resource to address hospital wide issues and events.

Requirements

• Required bachelor's degree of Science in Nursing
• Required RN - Lic-Registered Nurses by the Texas Board of Nursing or Nursing Licensure Compact
• Required BLS - Cert-Basic Life Support by the American Heart Association
• Required 2 years of nursing experience
• All successful candidates will be required to undergo respiratory fit testing in compliance with occupational health and safety standards.

About Us

Texas Children's presence in Austin helps support a pediatric population of more than half a million and keeps kids healthy and happy from birth to adulthood. Texas Children's first health care location in Austin, Texas Children's Urgent Care West Gate, opened in March 2018, providing high quality pediatric-focused care after hours and on weekends. There are now more than 15 Texas Children's Pediatric primary care practices in the greater Austin area providing full-service family care including routine childhood immunizations, well visits, and sick care. Our Specialty Care Center in Austin includes a multidisciplinary group of pediatric specialists committed to providing comprehensive care across a wide spectrum of services. Texas Children's Hospital North Austin, is our new state-of-the-art facility providing world-class pediatric and maternal care to Austin families.