Supervisor NICU - Sharp Mary Birch - Full Time - Variable Shift

Sharp HealthCare • San Diego, CA

23h • Onsite

About The Position

Provide direct supervision of and 24-hour responsibility for personnel and assure the quality of clinical nursing care of NICU patients. This position has responsibility for the coordination of care for patients and families in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Responsibility includes planning, organizing, directing, and evaluating staff and care activities in Neonatal Intensive Care to ensure the delivery of high quality, cost-effective patient care. The position is accountable for scheduling, coordinating, and maintaining the resources necessary on a specific shift daily, weekly, and monthly.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
• 3 Years Clinical nursing experience, one year of which shall have been in a facility with a NICU that is equivalent to a Regional or Community NICU.
• California Registered Nurse (RN) - CA Board of Registered Nursing -REQUIRED
• AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association -REQUIRED
• Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) - Various-Employee provides certificate -REQUIRED
• Exceptional ability to effectively communicate, problem-solve, seek creative and innovative methods to enhance patient care and staff performance.
• Strong leadership and team-building skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct supervision of and 24-hour responsibility for personnel and assure the quality of clinical nursing care of NICU patients.
• Coordination of care for patients and families in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
• Planning, organizing, directing, and evaluating staff and care activities in Neonatal Intensive Care to ensure the delivery of high quality, cost-effective patient care.
• Accountable for scheduling, coordinating, and maintaining the resources necessary on a specific shift daily, weekly, and monthly.
• Data management
• Contributes to meeting budgeted salary expense per unit of service.
• Identifies and/or participates in implementation of cost reducing or revenue enhancing ideas.
• Contributes to utilization of supplies in a cost-effective manner that supports delivery of care within budgeted supply expense per unit of service.
• Seeks to improve systems and processes that ultimately improve staff performance and assist in reducing the overall cost of care.
• Human resource management
• Clinical Competencies.
• Patient care and family issues.
• Documentation quality, content, compliance.
• Staff and leadership development.
• Teamwork, communication.
• Meeting participation and attendance.
• Employee supervision and feedback according to the established Sharp HealthCare Employee Performance Management Process.
• Interview/selection/hiring process.
• Leadership
• Actively contributes to the leadership team by bringing creative thinking and innovation to assist in enhancing overall patient care and operational efficiencies.
• Participates in a leadership position on an internal quality improvement committee or task force and contributes in a positive way.
• Participates as a leader with a specialty service lending clinical expertise and leadership and assisting in the growth, development and quality measurement of the specific service.
• Process improvement
• Collaborates with other disciplines/departments to resolve identified issues.
• Assists staff in problem solving and prioritization of patient care.
• Collaborates with Physicians to resolve identified issues.
• Demonstrates resolution of operational issues as negotiated with manager.
• Identifies bio-ethical dilemmas and initiates appropriate response.
• Quality
• Identifies and develops action plan to resolve quality issues in collaboration with Clinical Nurse Specialist and other interdisciplinary care team members.
• Identifies clinical learning needs and implements plan to assure learning achieved.
• Implements systems to inform / monitor staff compliance with regulatory and accreditation standards.
• Achieves / Maintains specialty certification in clinical area of practice.
• Participates in the evaluation of data that is pertinent to patient care outcomes including quality variance reports.

What This Job Offers

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