Nursing Clinical Coordinator, Transplant Services, 40 Hours (Days)

Position Summary

The Nursing Clinical Coordinator for Transplant Services provides clinical, operational, and regulatory leadership for the transplant program, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, patient-centered care across the continuum of transplant services. This role functions in a leadership capacity overseeing transplant coordinators and related staff while maintaining accountability for compliance with CMS, UNOS, and New England Organ Bank requirements. The Nurse Clinical Coordinator collaborates with transplant physicians, multidisciplinary teams, and hospital leadership to support program performance, regulatory readiness, staff development, and patient outcomes. This position balances direct clinical expertise with administrative and managerial responsibilities to ensure safe, effective, and compliant transplant operations.

About the Role

Position: Nursing Clinical Coordinator
Department: Transplant Services
Schedule: 40 Hours (Days)

Essential Responsibilities / Duties

• Provide managerial oversight and clinical leadership to transplant coordinators and related staff, ensuring consistent, high-quality patient care and adherence to regulatory and institutional standards.
• Oversee coordination of pre- and post-transplant care, including patient evaluation, donor coordination, listing activities, hospitalization, discharge planning, and outpatient follow-up.
• Serve as a clinical and operational resource for complex transplant cases, supporting staff decision-making and problem resolution.
• Maintains compliance with CMS, UNOS, Joint Commission, and New England Organ Bank policies; communicates regulatory findings and discrepancies to transplant leadership.
• Lead preparation, submission, and maintenance of required regulatory documentation, audits, site reviews, and transplant program reports.
• Collaborate with transplant surgeons, physicians, nursing leadership, social work, and ancillary services to develop, implement, and evaluate standards of care and clinical protocols.
• Oversee transplant program data integrity, including monitoring data submissions, mentoring data management staff, and maintaining adverse event logs.
• Provide education to patients, families, and staff regarding transplant processes, expectations, and post-transplant care.
• Support staff onboarding, competency validation, scheduling coverage, performance feedback, and ongoing professional development.
• Represent the transplant program in internal committees, multidisciplinary conferences, and regional or national transplant-related activities.
• Participate in budget planning, resource allocation, and operational improvement initiatives in collaboration with transplant leadership.
• Collaborate with managerial personnel in Renal and Transplant to ensure appropriate resource allocation.
• Absorb and reinforce adherence to established policies, procedures, protocols, guidelines, statutes, and regulations.
• Ensure role model practice pattern that is compliant with established practice, standards, policies, protocols, procedures, guidelines, statutes, and regulations.
• Implement clinical and administrative duties in a manner that preserves and protects autonomy, dignity, confidentiality, and rights, and in a non-judgmental and non-discriminatory manner that is sensitive to and demonstrates respect for practices and staff diversity.
• Accountable for the competent performance of assigned managerial and administrative duties.
• Provide staff with timely, constructive written and verbal feedback regarding their professional development.
• Initiate disciplinary action in accordance with policy and procedure. Documents actions and communicates outcomes with the Nurse Director.
• Documents actions and communicates outcomes with the Nurse Director.
• Conduct, when necessary, an independent investigation of employee incidents involving clinical practice issues, including review of employee personnel files, discipline records, and evaluations.
• Provide for a safe patient care environment and support the hospital’s risk management program through the timely and accurate completion of employee injury reports, incident reports, and other required paperwork.
• Participate in the development and maintenance of operational systems related to staffing, scheduling, payroll, and acuity.
• Responsible for own ongoing professional development. Independently identifies own learning needs and participates in ongoing educational activities to enable competent performance of assigned administrative and clinical duties.
• Complete the annual mandatory hospital and departmental educational requirements such as BCLS recertification, safety and infection control review, department leadership competencies, etc.

Knowledge And Skills

• Advanced knowledge of transplant clinical processes, regulatory standards, and patient care coordination.
• Demonstrated leadership and staff management skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Effective interpersonal and communication skills with patients, families, clinicians, and regulatory bodies.
• Ability to manage complex workflows, competing priorities, and regulatory deadlines.
• Proficiency with electronic medical records, databases, and Microsoft Office applications.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating within multidisciplinary teams.
• Ability to communicate effectively and collaborate with interdisciplinary healthcare team members, leadership, operations, pharmacy, and ancillary services to ensure timely resolution of patient care and operational issues and to promote patient flow.
• Ability to independently manage daily unit operations in the absence of the nurse director, including staffing, scheduling, budgeting awareness, problem resolution, and decision-making to ensure safe, efficient, and high-quality patient care.
• Ability to serve as a clinical and professional role model by demonstrating ethical decision-making, adherence to organizational values, Magnet principles, infection control and safety practices, and culturally competent care, including appropriate use of interpretive services.
• Skill in promoting staff professional development through competency assessment, assignment planning, facilitation of in-services, support of continuing education, and coordination of preceptor and orientation programs.

Compensation Range

$89,500.00- $130,000.00

Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans

Note: This range is based on Boston-area data, and is subject to modification based on geographic location. Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans