Supervisor of Patient Care: Resource Pool/Float Pool - Akron Children's Hospital

PRN

7pm-7:30am
Onsite

Summary:

The Supervisor Patient Care is responsible for patient care administered by the nursing staff during assigned shift.

Responsibilities:
1. Adds value as a key member of management; understands the business, financials, industry, customers and strategy.

2. Supervises employees, provides direction, coaches, trains and develops, and manages performance to company goals and expectations.

3. Prepares, manages, and adheres to department budget to maintain expenditure controls.

4. Is responsible for promoting and maintaining quality patient care through effective management of the activities related to patient care administered by the nursing staff during his assigned shift.

5. Visits patient care units to ascertain condition of patients, evaluates staffing needs and provides support to care givers.

6. Communicates with the appropriate Nursing Management staff member [VP of Patient Services, Directors of Nursing and Nurse Managers] about any circumstances or situations which has or may have serious impact to patients, staff or hospital.

7. Makes decisions and appropriately notifies the Administrator on call in the absence of the Hospital Administrator and/or designee.

8. Maintains operational aspects of the hospital and patient care units in collaboration with nursing and hospital staff support services.

9. Contributes to nursing and the Hospital through support of philosophy and objectives, educational efforts, and research efforts. Carries out Hospital/nursing policies/procedures and standards.

10. All other duties as assigned.

Other information:
Technical Expertise
1. Experience in clinical pediatrics is required.

2. Experience working with all levels within an organization is required.

3. Experience in healthcare is preferred.

4. Proficiency in MS Office [Outlook, Excel, Word] or similar software is required.

Education and Experience
1. Education: Bachelor’s degree is nursing is required.

2. Certification: Currently licensed to practice nursing in the State of Ohio] is required. Current Health Care Provider BLS is required. PALS, NRP, ACLS or TNCC is preferred.

3. Years of relevant experience: 3 to 5 years is preferred.

4. Years of experience supervising: 0 to 2 years is preferred.

On Call

FTE: 0.001000

Status: Onsite