Clinical Nursing Supervisor (CNS) - Des Plaines

American Addiction Centers•Des Plaines, IL

2d•$41 - $62•Onsite

About The Position

The Clinical Nursing Supervisor (CNS) provides support in the delivery of quality clinical care. This role works closely with the healthcare team and physician to ensure triage, telephone assessments, home therapies, and patient visits are consistent with established guidelines. The CNS takes a lead role in assisting the clinical team to meet/exceed CI goals and assists physicians and associates in managing patient registries. This position is responsible for ensuring staff adherence to documentation standards, supporting a safe environment, acting as a role model for the Culture of Safety, and utilizing information to implement process changes and staff education. The CNS leads site clinical integration activities, demonstrates appropriate action in emergency situations, identifies and resolves potential safety problems, ensures audits are conducted, and oversees research activities. The role requires independent problem-solving, critical decision-making, and accountability of clinical staff. The CNS also collaborates with management and physician leadership to maintain a patient-centered environment, monitors patient satisfaction data, holds self and others accountable to service standards, participates in process improvement activities, and ensures adequate clinical staffing. Additionally, the CNS collaborates with the practice manager on Human Resource functions, provides leadership to motivate associates, conducts staff meetings, performance reviews, and provides ongoing feedback through coaching and mentoring. The role supports practice growth initiatives, manages inventory and supplies, optimizes staff schedules, and works towards revenue and cost targets. The CNS also assists in creating and maintaining an operationally efficient and physician/provider-friendly work environment, supports new physician onboarding, and rounds with physicians daily to address concerns. Miscellaneous duties include participating in meetings, committees, and projects, staying abreast of clinical standards, and performing clinical duties as needed.

Requirements

Graduate from accredited school of nursing
5+ years of nursing experience
Knowledge of OSHA, FMLA, ADA, DOT regulations, CDC guidelines, Workman’s Comp Laws if applicable
Good communication skills.
Proficient with keyboard and computers.
Good time management and organizational skills.
Current RN Licensure in State of Illinois
Current CPR certification

Nice To Haves

BSN preferred
Leadership experience preferred

Responsibilities

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
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 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.
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.
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 isues 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).
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
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.
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.