Clinician 6 West Ortho/Trauma

UPMC • Cumberland, MD

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About The Position

UPMC Western Maryland is hiring a Clinician or Clinician Fellow for its 6 West Ortho/Trauma Unit. This is a dayshift position with two weekend shifts per month and no holiday requirement. Title and salary depend on education and nursing experience. Candidates with two years of experience and/or without a BSN will be hired at the Clinician Fellow title and pay range; the listed salary applies to the Clinician role.

The Clinician is a nurse leader responsible for helping achieve a culture of excellence and high-quality patient care. Under the general direction of the Unit Director or another department manager, the Clinician conducts employee evaluations, participates in staff selection and hiring, and manages the daily performance of direct reports. The role provides staff education and clinical expertise, including orientation and training, consultation on practice issues, and coordination of clinical activities. The Clinician may also be accountable for delivering nursing care during a shift when needed.

The Clinician supports professional nursing practice through mentoring, precepting, education, quality improvement, evidence-based practice, shared leadership, and patient-focused care. The role applies nursing knowledge within Relationship Based Care and uses the nursing process to address patients’ clinical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of nursing experience for the Clinician title.
• At least 2 years of nursing experience for the Clinician Fellow title.
• BS/BSN required. If the bachelor’s degree is not in nursing, a master’s or higher degree in nursing is required.
• If not holding a BSN at hire, must enroll in a program within one year of the hire or transfer date and complete it within three years of enrollment.
• Current Registered Professional Nurse licensure in the practicing state, or an eligible multistate license under the Nursing Licensure Compact.
• CPR required within 30 days of hire and must meet AHA standards that include didactic instruction and a skills demonstration.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) or Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR).

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree preferred.
• National certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build productive internal and external working relationships through teamwork, mentoring, and positive communication.
• Coach colleagues on cultural diversity and address workplace horizontal violence and impairment.
• Promote accountability for safe work hours, time management, and healthy lifestyles.
• Use performance improvement tools and techniques to improve care quality and the work environment.
• Integrate research and best practices into daily work, and share improvement learning across units or the organization.
• Mentor and educate colleagues, patients, families, and healthcare team members; participate as a preceptor for student nurses, interns, graduate nurses, and experienced nurses, and help develop new preceptors.
• Promote continuous learning through formal education and development of others, and share expertise within and beyond the clinical unit.
• Incorporate professional organization, business unit, and health system goals into daily work to improve patient safety, quality, and patient experience.
• Build healing relationships and create a caring, compassionate, patient-focused experience.
• Disseminate new knowledge and innovations through presentations, posters, and publications.
• Apply nursing knowledge and skills within Relationship Based Care, using the nursing process to meet patients’ and families’ clinical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs.
• Use critical thinking to analyze clinical, social, safety, psychological, and spiritual issues in patient care.
• Communicate verbally and in writing about patients’ conditions, make recommendations for changes in patient care, and recommend improvements to unit practices.
• Ensure patient documentation is comprehensive and supports communication between caregivers.
• Lead clinical nursing practice improvements by identifying patient- and staff-focused opportunities and leading change.
• Identify, educate, and support staff psychological and learning needs during change and transition.
• Participate in shared leadership at the unit, facility, or system level.
• Assume formal leadership responsibilities in one or more areas: quality improvement, evidence-based practice, graduate nurse support, or new-hire onboarding.
• Complete or assist with performance evaluations for direct reports, as applicable.
• Provide nursing care when needed, with shift accountability as applicable.
• Conduct employee evaluations, participate in staff selection and hiring, and manage daily performance of direct reports.

Benefits

• Sign-on bonus of up to $15,000 for eligible candidates.
• Nursing career ladders, including a clinician-specific career ladder.
• Tuition reimbursement of up to $6,000 per academic year at an accredited institution, available to employees and their dependents.
• UPMC employee discounts, including no-cost RN-BSN/MSN options.
• Total Rewards package.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level