Team Lead RN - Surgery (ENT, Dentistry, Oral Surgery)

Advocate Health•Chicago, IL

1d•$41 - $62

About The Position

The Team Lead RN manages, develops, implements, and evaluates standards of care in an assigned surgical specialty to support quality patient care, efficiency, and cost effectiveness. The role provides direct patient care and clinical guidance to operating room staff, supports compliance with regulatory requirements, and collaborates with surgery leadership, anesthesia, schedulers, supply chain, Sterile Processing, physicians, and vendors. The Team Lead supports staff orientation, competency-based education, performance feedback, professional development, mentoring, and coaching. The role also helps coordinate specialty supplies, equipment, inventory, staffing, scheduling, and resource utilization; contributes to process-improvement and unit or hospital activities; and supports departmental key result areas and associate engagement. The position is full time, 40 hours per week, with a Monday–Friday schedule of 0700–1700 and a rotating day-off pattern. The role may require weekends, holidays, and on-call availability as assigned. The listed pay range is $41.10–$61.65.

Requirements

Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree.
Three years of nursing experience in operating rooms.
Current Registered Nurse licensure in the State of Illinois.
CPR certification.
Clinically appropriate skills and ability to assume the charge role for the specialty.
Ability to communicate effectively and work cohesively with a diverse work group.
Fine motor skills.
Ability to wear a surgical mask and hear individuals whose speech may be muffled by surgical masks.
Commitment to patient-focused care and ability to work in a fast-paced environment with time constraints.
Ability to perform patient lifting and transfer activities; lifting up to 50 pounds may be required, with patient-handling equipment and another associate expected for specified lifts over 35 pounds or when a patient cannot assist.
Ability to transport objects from one location to another.
Ability to work designated shifts, including weekends and holidays, and to be on call as assigned.
Ability to recognize the needs and behaviors of specific patient age groups.
May be exposed to hazardous materials and life-threatening diseases.

Responsibilities

Manage, develop, implement, and evaluate specialty-area standards of care to support quality patient care, efficiency, and cost effectiveness.
Maintain accurate preference cards for the assigned surgical specialty and its resource needs.
Collaborate with the Surgery Leadership Team to resolve interdisciplinary conflicts.
Work with perioperative leaders to ensure intra-operative compliance with regulatory agencies.
Serve as a clinical resource to operating room staff and other hospital departments.
Evaluate operating room turnover times and help meet designated targets for specific cases.
Lead and participate in unit-based process-improvement projects.
Assume responsibility for direct patient care and collaborate with Anesthesia to provide necessary anesthesia care.
Develop specialty-specific orientation programs with the Clinical Manager and Educator, provide feedback on orientee performance, and support competency-based staff education.
Support staff professional development, performance assessment, evaluation input, mentoring, and coaching.
Ensure intra-operative staff are educated on essential specialty components for off-shift and on-call assignments.
Collaborate with schedulers, inventory coordinators, managers, and others to ensure vendors, representatives, proctoring physicians, and observers follow applicable policies.
Participate in or lead unit and hospital activities, including educational opportunities and Shared Governance Teams.
Collaborate with Surgical Services Leadership on ongoing education and departmental key result areas.
Coordinate and evaluate new supplies and equipment, and review and recommend products with the leadership team.
Review specialized supply-cart inventory, address outdated supplies, communicate reordering needs, and develop or evaluate PAR levels.
Review specialty surgeon supply requests to identify standardization and cost-effective utilization opportunities.
Review surgical procedure times with schedulers and coordinators to support accurate operating room schedules.
Review specialty staffing requests and use appropriate caregiver levels efficiently.
Maintain a collaborative relationship with Sterile Processing and communicate specialty instrumentation care, handling, cleaning, and sterilization needs.
Serve as a liaison for vendors or sales representatives at physician request and assist with capital-request proposals.
Support associate engagement and departmental key result areas through teamwork and appropriate resource utilization.
Maintain current knowledge of standards of care and proactively seek educational opportunities.

Benefits

Paid Time Off programs
Medical, dental, vision, life, and short- and long-term disability benefits
Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
Adoption assistance and paid parental leave
Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
Educational Assistance Program
Premium pay such as shift and on-call pay, based on the teammate's position
Incentive pay for select positions
Opportunity for annual increases based on performance
Career development programs