Salary: $100-110k, depending on experience with full benefits!
Schedule: 40 hours/week; Mon-Fri and potentially an evening shift on Mondays
Hours of Operation:
Monday 8:30am-7pm
Tuesday-Friday 8:30am-5pm
Job Responsibilities and Performance Standards:
- Functions as a team member in providing care to patient and families.
- Accepts responsibility, is self-directed in developing and maintaining own level of competency, career development and education.
- Demonstrates flexibility and adaptability in role as nursing supervisor. Serves as role model for nursing staff.
- Supervises nursing staff to ensure provision of quality patient care.
- Monitors and evaluates nursing practice to assure that patient care service is delivered according to established standards, including state and federal regulations.
- Is able to handle patient concerns/complaints with courtesy.
- Recognizes and requests assistance when appropriate.
- Collaborates with site operations manager in communicating to the nursing staff issues concerning patient care and departmental issues, including collection and dissemination of information.
- Works with nursing staff to implement policies, procedures and standards which minimize and eliminate patient care/work flow problems.
- Understands the guidelines defined by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health Immunization Program/Vaccines For Children (VFC).
- Works collaboratively with the Vaccine Manager/Coordinator and staff nurses to review and sign Standard Operating Procedure for Vaccine Management yearly.
- Complies with organizations standards for storage and handling of vaccines, including being assigned as a primary responder for medication refrigerator/freezer alarms.
- Collaborates with site operations manager on interviewing and hiring of personnel.
- Develops and updates job description to reflect key responsibilities of each position.
- Has primary responsibility for orienting new clinical staff. Monitors compliance with clinical performance standards.
- Co-writes evaluations on nursing staff with Site Operations Manager/Director.
- Participates in ongoing quality assurance programs to ensure that quality, safety and appropriateness of services are evaluated, monitored and appropriate actions taken.
- Participates in evaluating strategies which improve patient care and departmental services.
- Is seen as a leader in initiating and evaluating strategies which improve patient care and service.
- Collaborates with the Site Operations Manager/Director in reviewing incident reports and complaints to assess trends and risk factors.
- Takes action to correct same and educate staff accordingly.
- Takes immediate action to resolve unusual incidents and assure that an incident report is completed.
- Prevents incidents from happening by taking an active role.
- Follows up on all incident reports and takes necessary action to educate staff in a timely manner.
- Oversees the ordering of medical equipment and supplies.
- Monitors and maintains medical closet.
- In collaboration with site operations manager, develops relationships with community agencies as appropriate for clinic site, e.g., DPH, DCF DSS, VNA, schools, etc.
- Travel between sites may be required.
- Performs all and any additional duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
Experience
- Minimum 3 years of nursing experience; Ambulatory experience helpful
- Nursing leadership experience (Charge, Supervisor, Manager)
- Bilingual (Spanish/English) preferred.
Education
- Graduate of an accredited nursing institute.
- Bachelor’s degree required, or actively pursuing.
- Current MA RN license.
- Maintains current BLS certification.
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