Staffing Advisor - Float

About the role

Fairview is looking for a Staffing Advisor at our Fairview Midway Corporate Campus in St Paul! The main goal of this role will be to help daily staffing needs in helping to find coverage for call-offs or short-staffing by using staffing grids in compliance with hospital policies, the department budget and staffing plan. This will require a high attention to detail as well as a fast paced energy! Hours: 56 hours (0.7 FTE), every two weeks and is benefit eligible. Schedule: Evening Shift - 8-hour shifts (3PM - 11:30PM). Weekend Rotation: Every other weekend. Location: Onsite at the Fairview Midway Campus, 1700 University Avenue in Saint Paul. Produces employee's schedules and adjusts schedules after posting, including filling open shifts by utilizing staffing grids in compliance with hospital policies, the department budget and staffing plan. Matches daily staffing to current demand to ensure the staff are present to provide safe staff-to-patient ratios or to meet staffing requirements. Serves as timekeeper for the electronic time and attendance system. Works with nursing management to ensure appropriate staffing levels are maintained throughout the process. Utilizes Lean methodology to continuously improve the work.

Schedule

Hours: 56 hours (0.7 FTE), every two weeks and is benefit eligible. Schedule: Evening Shift - 8-hour shifts (3PM - 11:30PM). Weekend Rotation: Every other weekend. Location: Onsite at the Fairview Midway Campus, 1700 University Avenue in Saint Paul.

Responsibilities

• Produces and maintains 4-week employee schedules as set by policy, union contract, and department guidelines.
• Ensures that schedules are timely, free from error and align available resources to support the front-line staff.
• Approves and processes time off requests, shift exchanges, and holiday schedules while ensuring accurate data entry in scheduling system to include all proactive scheduling adjustments (schedule changes and extra shifts).
• Reviews staffing levels on an ongoing basis and communicates staffing needs to employees and works to fill vacant shifts.
• Proactively adjusts daily staffing by recruiting for, calling in, canceling or floating employees based on unit volume, acuity and needs based unexpected absences or remaining open shifts.
• Reviews scheduled staff with Charge Nurses, Administrative Nursing Supervisors and/or Nursing Managers (as appropriate) on a shift by