Clinical Manager - Respiratory Care Services - Nights

WellSpan Health•Chambersburg, PA

About The Position

Assists with the development and evaluation of Respiratory Care Services. The Clinical Manager is a leader, innovator, and change agent who impacts on the improvement of quality respiratory care to patients. Provides expert and complex clinical and technical respiratory training to the respiratory care staff; functions as a consultant to other health care providers within the hospital and the community; develops and monitors implementation of new respiratory care techniques and standards of practice; exercises clinical leadership through practice, development of staff, and research. Additionally, this position will perform in depth and comprehensive patient evaluations that will assess the efficacy and appropriateness of care; therapeutic status, educational needs and rehabilitative potential of the patient in order to more effectively coordinate the Disease Management process and act as a liaison between Respiratory Staff, Physicians, Nursing, Physical Therapy, Social Services and other healthcare disciplines as well as the patient, the patients' family and/or caretaker.

Requirements

Associates Degree Respiratory Therapy Required
Bachelors Degree Respiratory Therapy (within 36 months of hire) Required
Less than 1 year Experience applying customer service behaviors and communication skills required
Licensed Respiratory Therapist Upon Hire Required
Heartsaver First Aid CPR/AED within 180 days Required
Neonatal Resusc Prg within 180 days Required
Advanced Cardiac Life Support within 180 days Required
Ped Adv Life Support within 180 days Required
Core Values: Integrity, Compassion, Excellence, Service
Annual Health Screening with Infection Control and Blood Borne Pathogens Education
Safety Awareness: Hospital Fire, Safety, and Disaster Procedures
Confidentiality: Maintains Employee and Patient Confidentiality
Attendance: Regular attendance is an essential function of the position
Character: Attitude, Integrity, Role Modeling
Job Performance: Results Orientation, Customer Focus, Decision Making, Awareness
Interpersonal Skills: Communication, Relationship-building, Team Player, Celebration
Innovation: Breakthrough Thinking, Knowledge-Building/Sharing, Coaching/Empowering, System Vision & Management

Nice To Haves

5 years Respiratory in acute care Preferred
1 year Leadership/management Preferred
Less than 1 year Management and Staff Development Preferred
Less than 1 year Computerized documentation Required
Less than 1 year NICU Preferred

Responsibilities

Demonstrates service excellence and patient and family centered care by showing respect, honesty, fairness and a positive attitude toward all customers.
Maintains confidentiality.
Demonstrates dependability, to include attendance and punctuality.
Is accountable - takes initiative and ownership of issues.
Displays a professional demeanor.
Represents hospital in a positive way.
Has a compassionate working relationship with patients and families.
Assumes personal responsibility for 2-way communication.
Communicates and listens effectively with patients, families, coworkers, other departments, physicians/providers and community.
Supports coworkers, initiatives and a patient and family centered philosophy; pitches in; does own part and helps others.
Works to continuously improve work environment/processes (Performance Improvement).
Demonstrates a patient and family centered focus when considering/developing improvement solutions.
Represents willingness/enthusiasm to create, embrace and facilitate change.
Develops self and others; supports a learning environment; leads by example.
Encourages patients and families to give feedback and suggestions for improvement.
Develops working relationships critical to the organization including patients, families, coworkers, other departments, physicians/providers and community.
Encourages others by providing recognition and support.
Improves employee and organization's performance by removing roadblocks and empowering staff to take ownership and to be self-directed.
Ensures that a performance improvement plan and/or disciplinary action is initiated where needed to assist employees to achieve performance standards.
Thinks critically; utilizes sound judgment; promptly reports potential risks.
Maintains state of art knowledge of area of specialty, healthcare trends and practice, and populations served.
Maintains a level of computer literacy appropriate to their role.
Meets and maintains current all unit specific and organizational skills/competencies, certifications/licensures, as required.
Completes hospital-required reviews, e.g. HIPAA, safety, health screening, care concerns, and others as assigned.
Adheres to National Patient Safety Goals.
Completes required reports (e.g. PI Dash Boards, benchmarks, etc.) on time.
Insures that 100% of all employees have current licenses, completed yearly health checks, CPR, orientation or re-orientation, where applicable.
Completes 100% of employee evaluations on time, in a thoughtful and constructive manner.
For non-bargaining employees, follows established guidelines for recommended increases.
Displays ability and skill in budget development, monitoring, and remaining within budgetary limits.
Flexes costs downward when necessary, especially when scheduling and monitoring hours worked.
Evaluates operations from a workflow perspective and responds appropriately, redesigns per customer needs and competitive benchmarks.
Utilizes appropriate mechanisms to solve problems and resolve conflict.
Directs staff to do same.
Attends and actively participates/leads unit-based meetings, serves on Department of Patient Services committees and/or task forces as requested and as appropriate.
Keeps Director updated regarding unit/personnel/patient activities.
Demonstrates flexibility in response to role changes necessitated by unit activity, organizational change and future direction.
Works with staff to improve ownership of their practice, process and performance.
Acts as effective resource for staff and demonstrates leadership through clinical practice, coaching, supervision, teaching and professional attitudes and behaviors.
Advocates to ensure that goals/expected outcomes for patient care are set mutually with the patient and pertinent others.
Facilitates student experiences through cooperation and collaboration with faculty.
Responds appropriately to emergency situations.
Fosters a practice environment that supports interdisciplinary collaboration.
Reviews charge reports.
Assimilates staffing, equipment, and clinical priorities.
Meets deadlines for budgeting and scheduling input.
Meets quarterly with all staff to ensure completion of goals and training.
Promotes autonomy and critical thinking.
Ensures that core competencies and training records are up to date.
Develops, implements, and evaluates structure, process and outcome standards for the education, competency, and orientation programs for respiratory care.
Completes special projects and research tasks as assigned.
Assists in the development of new projects or processes.
Assesses patients for efficacious response to therapy.
Communicates recommendations as to type and frequency of therapeutic modalities to Physicians.
Monitors and communicates patient condition as appropriate.
Coordinates patient care with Physicians and other patient care disciplines.
Participates in medical team rounds, evaluates care provided by RCP and collaborates with healthcare team to ensure quality patient care.
Assists in developing hospital and post discharge patient care plans as a component of the Disease Management Process and in compliance with The Joint Commission (TJC) Hospital Accreditation Standards (HAS)
Serves as a clinical and technical resource to the Respiratory, Nursing, and Physician Staff.
Performs advanced respiratory care modalities.