Clinical Nursing Supervisor - Oncology Surgery

American Addiction Centers•Chicago Ridge, IL

1d•$41 - $62•Onsite

About The Position

This role provides support in the delivery of quality clinical care within Oncology and Surgical Oncology across South Chicagoland. The Clinical Nursing Supervisor works closely with the healthcare team and physician to ensure triage, telephone assessments, home therapies, and patient visits are consistent with established guidelines. This position takes a lead role in assisting the clinical team to meet/exceed CI goals, assists physicians and associates in managing patient registries, and ensures monthly office inspection checklists and other required audits are conducted in a timely manner. The supervisor also ensures AMG standing operating procedures are followed and oversees approved site research activities. Demonstrates independent problem-solving, critical decision-making, and knows when to obtain additional resources when required. Holds clinical staff accountable to AMG rooming standards and ensures the timely management of EMR tasks, overdue orders, test result follow-up, and other patient follow-up. Demonstrates appropriate action and takes a lead role in emergency situations, assuring timely response to emergency calls by staff. Identifies, evaluates, and resolves potential safety problems, including equipment maintenance issues. Ensures staff adherence to timely and accurate documentation of all patient care services by monitoring staff compliance within all AMG wide systems and all regulatory standards. Supports a safe environment for patients and associates through effective monitoring of staff compliance to established standards of care, policies, procedures, and HIPAA compliance. Ensures associates are up-to-date with all safety training and certifications. Acts as a role model and champion for Culture of Safety, working with the manager to resolve patient safety events in the reporting system and promoting/educating staff on the reporting system. Utilizes information to implement process changes and staff education, leads site clinical integration activities. Collaborates with the manager/director and physician leadership to maintain a patient-centered environment, monitoring data, developing improvement plans, and holding self and others accountable to AMG Service Standards, Behaviors of Excellence, AIDET, and MVP. Participates in activities to evaluate and improve processes that contribute to patient satisfaction, conducts frequent assessments of patient flow, and takes appropriate steps to reduce wait times. Responsible for conveying a professional image and following through on patient complaints, practicing Service Recovery. Fosters a pleasant and professional environment and ensures adequate clinical staffing by developing schedules and assignments. Assists in coordinating managed care issues and nursing updates, evaluates service levels and operational procedures, and actively rounds on patients, associates, and physicians. Collaborates with the practice manager on Human Resource functions, conducts regular staff meetings and daily huddles, and conducts performance reviews on time. Demonstrates effective time management, problem-solving, collaboration, and conflict resolution skills, consistently ensuring the manager is informed of key events or issues. Provides ongoing performance feedback through coaching and mentoring, orients and trains new associates, and seeks opportunities to further educate and develop associates. Supports initiatives that enhance practice growth and retention of existing patients, promotes same day access, and maintains an effective process for inventory control and medication supply utilization. Proactively manages staff schedules to minimize overtime, temporary staff, and registry use, and works in collaboration with the practice site manager to achieve revenue and cost targets. Assists in the creation and maintenance of an operationally efficient and physician/provider friendly work environment, supports the onboarding of new physicians/providers, and rounds with physicians/providers daily. Engages physicians/providers in improving processes, workflow, and EMR-related concerns, and assists them on issues related to patient care and safety. Fulfills additional job-related duties based on operational needs as directed by the manager and/or the director, actively participates in meetings, committees, and projects, and keeps abreast of current clinical standards. Maintains licensure and completes required CEUs, and performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Nurse, Registered (RN)
Minimum of 40 hours per week.
Monday-Friday schedule.
No Weekends/Holidays.
Experience in Oncology and Surgical Oncology.
Experience in clinical care and health outcomes.
Experience in patient registries.
Experience with office inspection checklists and audits.
Knowledge of AMG standing operating procedures.
Experience overseeing research activities.
Demonstrated independent problem solving and critical decision making.
Ability to hold clinical staff accountable to standards.
Experience with EMR tasks, overdue orders, and test result follow-up.
Ability to take a lead role in emergency situations.
Ability to identify, evaluate, and resolve potential safety problems.
Experience with staff adherence to documentation standards.
Experience supporting a safe environment for patients and associates.
Experience promoting a Culture of Safety.
Experience working with managers to resolve patient safety events.
Ability to implement process changes and staff education.
Experience leading clinical integration activities.
Experience collaborating with managers/directors and physician leadership.
Experience monitoring data and developing improvement plans.
Ability to hold self and others accountable to service standards.
Experience evaluating and improving processes for patient satisfaction.
Experience conducting patient flow assessments.
Ability to reduce wait times and inform patients of delays.
Ability to convey a professional image.
Experience following through on patient complaints and practicing Service Recovery.
Ability to foster a pleasant and professional environment.
Experience ensuring adequate clinical staffing.
Experience developing schedules and assignments.
Experience coordinating managed care issues and nursing updates.
Experience evaluating service levels and operational procedures.
Experience engaging staff in issue resolution.
Experience rounding on patients, associates, and physicians.
Experience leading team huddles.
Experience collaborating with practice managers on HR functions.
Ability to create an environment where associates are motivated and recognized.
Experience conducting staff meetings and daily huddles.
Experience documenting meetings.
Experience conducting performance reviews on time.
Demonstrated effective time management, problem-solving, collaboration, and conflict resolution skills.
Ability to keep manager informed of key events or issues.
Experience providing ongoing performance feedback through coaching and mentoring.
Experience orienting and training new associates.
Experience documenting orientation, training, and required competencies.
Ability to educate and develop associates.
Ability to enhance leadership skills.
Ability to ensure associates maintain certification and CEUs.
Experience supporting practice growth initiatives.
Experience promoting same day access and volume visit targets.
Experience maintaining inventory control and medication supply utilization.
Experience managing staff schedules to minimize overtime, temporary staff, and registry.
Experience working with practice site managers to achieve revenue and cost targets.
Ability to maximize team efficiency.
Experience supporting the onboarding of new physicians/providers.
Experience rounding with physicians/providers daily.
Experience engaging physicians/providers in improving processes, workflow, and EMR concerns.
Experience assisting physicians/providers on patient care and safety issues.
Experience reviewing physician/provider satisfaction results.
Ability to participate in meetings, committees, and projects.
Ability to keep abreast of current clinical standards.
Ability to participate in activities to enhance professional growth.
Maintains licensure.
Completes required CEUs.
Performs other duties as assigned.
Performs clinical duties as determined by the needs of the practice site(s) or as assigned by his/her manager.

Responsibilities

Provides support in the delivery of quality clinical care.
Works closely with healthcare team and physician to assure triage, telephone assessments, home therapies and patient visits are consistent with established guidelines and followed by the healthcare team.
Takes a lead role in assisting the clinical team to meet/exceed CI goals.
Assists physicians and associates in managing patient registries.
Ensures monthly office inspection checklist and other required audits are conducted in a timely manner.
Ensures AMG standing operating procedures are followed.
Oversees approved site research activities.
Demonstrates independent problem solving, critical decision making, and knows when to obtain additional resources when required.
Holds clinical staff accountable to AMG rooming standards.
Ensures the timely management of EMR tasks, overdue orders, test result follow-up and other patient follow-up.
Demonstrates appropriate action and takes a lead role in emergency situations. Assures timely response to emergency calls by staff.
Identifies, evaluates, and resolves potential safety problems; including equipment maintenance issues.
Ensures staff adherence to timely and accurate documentation of all patient care services by monitoring staff compliance within all AMG wide systems, and all regulatory standards to ensure standards are met and followed.
Supports a safe environment for patients and associates through effective monitoring of staff compliance to established standards of care, policies and procedures and HIPAA compliance. Ensures associates are up-to-date with all safety training and certifications.
Acts as a role model and champion for Culture of Safety. Works with the manager to resolve patient safety events in the reporting system. Promotes and educates staff on the reporting system to report all events and near miss events. Works with the manager to complete ACAs and RCAs when indicated.
Utilizes information to implement process changes and staff education.
Leads site clinical integration activities.
Collaborates with the manager/director and physician leadership to maintain an environment that is patient centered as evidenced by the availability of open access; including but not limited to the following: same day appointments, future appointments made, referrals made within the group, adherence to test result reporting guidelines, positive patient comments, and meeting/exceeding Key Result Area (KRA) goals.
Monitors data on a monthly basis, reviews with clinical staff, and physicians and jointly develops improvement plans in concert with the site leadership to meet/exceed established patient satisfaction targets.
Holds self and others accountable to adherence to AMG Service Standards, Behaviors of Excellence, AIDET and MVP.
Participates and promotes activities to evaluate and improve processes that will contribute to patient satisfaction. Conducts frequent assessments of patient flow. Takes appropriate steps to reduce wait times and to keep patients informed of delays.
Responsible for conveying a professional image in compliance with AMG clothing and grooming standards, and wears AMG provided identification tags at all time.
Follows through and takes ownership of patient complaints, and practices Service Recovery where identified.
Fosters a pleasant and professional environment, in person and over the phone, utilizing prescribed scripting and telephone standards.
Ensures adequate clinical staffing at all times by developing schedules, assignments and modifying as necessary.
Assists in coordinating managed care issues and nursing updates.
Evaluates service levels and operational procedures such as wait-times, message management and appointment availability. Engages staff in resolution of identified issues.
Actively rounds on patients, associates and physicians and ensures that the team has the necessary resources and tools to be successful.
Actively participates and/or leads team huddles.
Collaborates with the practice manager on Human Resource functions related to associates to ensure continued quality, development and retention reflecting the Advocate Experience of creating the best place for associates to work and achieve associate satisfaction scores consistent with AMG goals and standards.
In day-to-day activities, provides leadership to create an environment where the associates are motivated to do their best, are routinely recognized for good work and achieves goals for associate satisfaction.
Conducts regular staff meetings and daily huddles with associates. Documents meetings using Stoplight Report.
Conducts performance reviews on time.
Demonstrates effective time management, problem-solving, collaboration and conflict resolution skills.
Consistently ensures manager is fully informed of key events or issues that impact practice operations.
Provides ongoing performance feedback to associates through coaching and mentoring. Orients and provides training to new associates. Documents orientation, training and required competencies to ensure that associates are proficient in job requirements.
Seeks opportunities to further educate and develop the associates and enhance own leadership skills.
Assures all associates maintain certification and all required continuing education units (CEUs).
Supports initiatives that enhance practice growth as well as retention of existing patients under the direction of the manager and in collaboration with physician leadership.
Participates in activities which foster practice growth.
Promotes same day access and is engaged in volume visit targets.
Maintains an effective process for inventory control and medication supply utilization.
Proactively manages staff schedules to minimize use of overtime, temporary staff, and registry.
Works in collaboration with practice site manager to achieve revenue and cost targets.
Maximizes team efficiency by utilizing all team members.
Assists in the creation and maintenance of an operationally efficient and physician/provider friendly work environment.
Provides support to the onboarding of new physicians/providers.
Rounds with physicians/providers daily to review staff issues and to address and resolve operational/clinical concerns. Solicits feedback regarding staff performance.
Engages physicians/providers in improving processes, workflow and EMR related concerns.
Assists physicians/providers on issues related to patient care and safety.
Reviews physician/providers satisfaction results and collaborates with manager/director to execute improvement plans.
Fulfills additional job-related duties based on operational needs as directed by the manager and/or the director.
Actively participates in meetings, committees and projects.
Keeps abreast of current clinical standards via literature, educational events and internal and external resources and networking.
Participates in activities to enhance professional growth.
Maintains licensure and completes required CEUs.
Performs other duties as assigned.
Performs clinical duties as determined by the needs of the practice site(s) or as assigned by his/her manager.