NURSE MANAGER - School Based Health Centers

About the role

The Nurse Manager is a registered nurse accountable for clinical care of a designated patient care service area. They are responsible for assessing, identifying, planning, implementing and evaluating the processes, technology, personnel and facility needs required to achieve patient outcomes safely in a patient-centered environment.

Responsibilities

• Affirms effective patient flow within the Health Center, both through telephone and walk-in visits.
• Supports providers with procedures, phone calls, referrals, and problem-solving.
• Provides nursing care and health education to patients.
• Oversees the maintenance of clinical inventory and forms.
• Assists providers with diagnostic procedures and treatment regimens when needed.
• Affirms patient and family needs relative to age, specific requirements, and according to Standards and policies and procedures.
• Communicates the purpose and goals of the care area to the care team.
• Interviews, hires, terminates, disciplines, and evaluates patient care staff.
• Maintains staff understanding of, and compliance with, infection control mandates.
• Maintains records of minutes from leadership and nursing meetings.
• Ensures the ability of assigned patient care providers aligns with patient/family health care needs.
• Conducts/facilitates leadership and nursing meetings, demonstrating the ability to achieve meeting outcomes.
• Maintains records of minutes.
• Collaborates on the creation of an interdisciplinary health center-based QI program aimed at improving patient care or teams and services, and participates in the QI process.
• Achieves successful compliance with regulatory agency standards.
• Maintains staff understanding of and compliance with infection control mandates.
• Participates in patient care area planning and problem-solving.
• Ensures staff is informed of medical center developments.

Requirements

• Minimum of three (3) years experience in an Ambulatory/Medical Surgery/ER setting preferred.
• Minimum of two (2) years nursing experience.
• Demonstrated ability to perform venipuncture and administer medications including immunizations.
• Demonstrated experience with telephone triage and diagnosis procedures.
• Bilingual, Spanish preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to provide quality care to patients and guide nursing staff.
• Demonstrated ability to plan, make decisions, organize, and direct the work of others.
• Demonstrated organizational, clinical, and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated ability to problem solve using critical thinking.
• Demonstrated basic computer skills including typing.

Education

• Required: AAS/BS in Nursing or equivalent Bachelor’s Degree.

Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action

The Institute for Family Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. This job summary is intended to be brief and may not list all the duties and functions required, however, it does highlight the essential requirements. Nothing outlined in this job summary is to be construed as an express or implied contract of employment. Please visit www.Institute.org for more information.