Registered Nurse (RN) Assistant Director Cancer Center

UMC Health System

1d•Onsite

About The Position

This role is for an Assistant Director of the Cancer Center, responsible for the supervision of ambulatory oncology clinic/infusion nursing unit/s daily operations and administrative duties. The position involves competent and responsible management, cost-efficient, and effective utilization of unit resources. The role plans, coordinates, and evaluates all activities impacting patient care delivery, ensuring continuity of care for oncology patients across different settings. It holds self and staff accountable for identifying, evaluating, documenting, and intervening in oncology patients’ needs to ensure high-quality, cost-effective care. The Assistant Director collaborates with the Cancer Center Director of Operations and Leadership team to achieve high nurse retention, engagement, and goals, strengthening the team to increase efficiency and productivity, and identifying opportunities for program expansion. Collaboration with physicians, management, and other clinical leaders is key to promoting efficient, high-quality nursing care delivery consistent with UMC Health System best practices, ensuring patient satisfaction, regulatory compliance, and provider efficiency. The role also assists in recruitment, interviewing, selection, hiring, training, mentoring, evaluation, coaching, counseling, disciplining, and rewarding staff. Assistance with developing and evaluating staffing plans to ensure sufficient resources, identifying alternative staffing, and providing direct patient care when needed are also responsibilities. The Assistant Director uses a flexible interpersonal style to build a cohesive team, manages and develops self-lead staff through effective communication, leadership, guidance, and resources, and manages conflict as needed. Support for workplace safety initiatives, DNV Readiness, Magnet, Evidenced based NDNQI practice scoring, Accreditation, competencies, evaluations, and staff education is expected. The role supports lifelong learning of nurses and other healthcare personnel in an environment that facilitates continuous learning and the adult learning process, aligning with UMC Health System's strategic goals. Patient relations include meeting patient and family needs, taking responsibility for patient safety, satisfaction, and clinical outcomes, resolving difficult patient situations, and establishing long-term relationships with pediatric patients and families to assist in navigating disease and treatment. All other assigned duties as needed are also part of the role.

Requirements

Graduation from an accredited School of Nursing
Valid Texas RN License/Eligible Compact License
Must maintain a current BLS certification from American Heart Association
3 years of professional nursing experience
+2 years of experience in assigned clinical area
MSN Required

Nice To Haves

Previous leadership experience preferred.
CPHON (CPHON) Certification obtained within 3 years of hire.

Responsibilities

Supervision of ambulatory oncology clinic/infusion nursing unit/s daily operations and administrative duties.
Planning, coordinating, and evaluating all activities impacting patient care delivery (inpatient, ambulatory, and with outside healthcare facilities as appropriate for patient care).
Ensuring Inpatient-Outpatient-ER transition and continuity of care on an on-going basis for oncology patients.
Holding self and staff accountable for identification, evaluation, documentation, and appropriate intervention of oncology patients’ needs to ensure high-quality cost-effective care.
Collaborating with the UMC Health System Cancer Center Director of Operations and Leadership team to build and achieve high nurse retention, engagement, goals, and strengthen upon a motivated team to increase efficiency and productivity, evaluate, and identify opportunities for program expansion within the ambulatory pediatric oncology clinics and infusion/s.
Collaborating with physicians, management, and other clinical leaders and staff to promote efficient, high quality nursing care delivery that is consistent with UMC Health System best practice principles, assuring patient satisfaction, regulatory compliance, and provider efficiency.
Assisting in recruitment, interviewing, selection, hiring, training, orienting, mentoring, evaluation, coaching, counseling, disciplining, and rewards of staff within unit/s.
Assisting to develop and evaluate staffing plans to assure sufficient and appropriate resources, identifies alternative staffing, resources, and demands, provides direct patient care and other nursing related activities/services when needed to support ongoing care.
Using flexible interpersonal style to help build a cohesive team, manages, and develops effective self-lead staff: providing effective communication, leadership, guidance, and resources.
Managing Conflict as needed.
Assisting with workplace safety initiatives, DNV Readiness, Magnet, Evidenced based NDNQI practice scoring, Accreditation, 90-day and annual competencies and evaluations, staff education.
Supporting lifelong learning of nurses and other healthcare personnel in an environment that facilitates continuous learning and facilitates the adult learning process while functioning within the framework of achieving the strategic goals of UMC Health System and nursing services.
Meeting patient and family needs: taking responsibility for patient safety, satisfaction, and clinical outcomes, resolving difficult patient situations regaining patient confidence and trust as needed.
Establishing long-term relationship with pediatric patients and families to assist in navigating disease and treatment.
Performing all other assigned duties as needed.