Program Manager Trauma Burn Injury Prevention

Tenet Healthcare • Detroit, MI

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Children's Hospital of Michigan is seeking an innovative and experienced healthcare leader to drive excellence and inspire our team towards exceptional patient outcomes and operational success. This role oversees the development, implementation, and evaluation of trauma and burn programs, injury prevention programs, and the safety center. Responsibilities include assuring the organization of services and systems necessary for a multidisciplinary approach to providing care to injured patients. The role assumes responsibility for process and performance improvement activities related to nursing and ancillary personnel providing care to injured patients. The primary areas of responsibility include educational, clinical, research, administrative, and outreach activities of the trauma, burn, and outreach programs. This position manages the financial and budgetary operations for the program, represents the programs at local, regional, and state levels, and provides clinical oversight to nursing personnel in the pediatric surgery service. The Program Manager develops, monitors, and revises functional processes, provides input into the development and revision of organizational structure, approves personnel actions, ensures timely completion of performance appraisals, develops goals, measures and assesses performance, and assists in long-range goal development. The role also monitors activities for and ensures compliance with laws, government regulations, Joint Commission requirements, and DMC policies, and implements external and internal audit recommendations. Ensures hospital departments achieve objectives for diversity of their suppliers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing (BSN).
• License to practice as a Registered Nurse in the State of Michigan.
• Three to five years of progressively more responsible leadership experience.
• Five years of nursing experience.
• BLS certified.

Nice To Haves

• MSN or NP preferred.
• Emergency, trauma and/or burn nursing or other relevant clinical background highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Assures and oversees the patient information flow for trauma and/or burn quality assurance activities, including multidisciplinary staff conferences, morbidity and mortality reviews, and quality assurance meetings.
• Maintains intimate knowledge of trauma and/or burn care systems from pre-hospital care to inpatient discharge, and identifies system problems.
• Develops opportunities for improvement and ensures implementation of necessary changes.
• Provides oversight to the trauma and/or burn staff and the registrar with the design, development, and maintenance of hospital trauma and/or burn registries and provides data for regional, state, and national registry.
• Assures that attending staff/nursing staff manage system maintenance, including in-service activities with resident physician/nursing staff.
• Manages and participates in outreach efforts, including community/public relations and professional presentations to referring institutions.
• Coordinates the institution's program of community education in injury prevention.
• Remains current with local, statewide, and national trends and issues regarding trauma and/or burn care, its organization and funding.
• Represents the hospital in various forums, where appropriate, i.e. Region 2 South, DEMCA, and other related assemblies.
• Prepares budgets for the trauma, injury prevention, and burn programs in coordination with administration.
• Facilitates studies and research concerning trauma, burn, and/or injury prevention outreach.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match
• Generous paid time off (PTO)
• Career development and continuing education opportunities
• Health savings accounts, healthcare & dependent flexible spending accounts
• Employee Assistance program, Employee discount program
• Voluntary benefits include pet insurance, legal insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, long term care, elder & childcare, auto & home insurance.

What This Job Offers

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