Northwestern Memorial Healthcareposted 13 days ago
McHenry, IL
About the position
The Staffing Coordinator reflects the mission, vision, and values of Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital, adheres to the organization’s Code of Ethics and Corporate Compliance Program, and complies with all relevant policies, procedures, guidelines and all other regulatory and accreditation standards. Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital is committed to providing our communities the highest quality health care through exceptional access to state-of-the-art clinical services with compassionate and personal care. Assists department of nursing in optimizing nurse staffing of patient area units utilizing internal and external resources as well as maintaining schedules within scheduling systems.
Responsibilities
- Maintains unit specific information related to requests for holidays worked and other schedule components for use by clinical directors.
- Completes schedule utilizing scheduling software by calling staff, utilizing float and resource personnel.
- Monitors future staffing shortages and utilizes software to appropriately fill holes.
- Maintains the PRN 4 roster and schedules staff to fill holes in schedule.
- Receives call from nursing operations leaders or patient care area managers of sick calls and secures replacement staffing where needed.
- Communicates with nursing agencies to fill open shifts or cancel as needed to promote fiscal responsibility.
- Updates and maintains agency information such as phone numbers, licenses, and certification as needed.
- Creates and adjusts all schedules to assure appropriate staffing.
- Utilizes stated pay rules to appropriately award bonuses and other extra pay.
- Updates employee work preference data, certifications and synergy levels.
- Modifies schedules based on open shift reports and other data to assure shift coverage.
- Optimizes nurse staffing hours based on commitment level.
- Attends Optimizing Patient Flow and Code White throughput emergencies and provides information on staffing and scheduling.
Requirements
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- Must demonstrate thorough working knowledge of the practices in a specialized field.
- More than one up to three years of related work experience, demonstrating a working knowledge of the job responsibilities and methods.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with Kronos scheduler a plus.
- 2 to 3 years of undergraduate education or equivalent.
Benefits
- Tuition reimbursement
- Loan forgiveness
- 401(k) matching
- Lifecycle benefits
