Employment Type:

Full time

Shift:

Day Shift

Description:

This nursing leadership role is responsible for the oversight of our transformational Internal Resource Pool, designed to provide consistent staff support throughout our acute care service areas, provide collaboration among nursing supervisors and the central “Hub.” The Hub serves as the home department for staff in the early stages of their career who wish to advance to senior licensed staff and maintain a broader scope of clinical skills by rotating and supporting various units throughout the organization. To maintain our Relationship Based Care model, Patient Care Technicians (PCT), SNA’s, LPN’s and RN’s are crossed trained and assigned equitably to clinical units to accommodate unit requirements based on skill set, competency, and patient needs. Our leaders work alongside our staff in a collaborative environment and promote professional development and shared governance where voices are heard; it is one of the many reasons we continue to lead our community in favorable patient outcomes and safety. Contact us now for more information on this unique and visionary opportunity for nurse leadership.

The Registered Nurse Manager is accountable for applying positive managerial strategies to promote the operational management of one or more clinical areas and support an environment of excellent patient care and clinical outcomes. Provides unit-based leadership while engaging and promoting evidenced based practice that supports and leads unit and organizational changes. Ensures compliance with all healthcare standards and requirements established by various licensing, regulatory, and accreditation bodies. Develops and implements operational plans, goals and objectives. Maintains a working knowledge of policies and procedures in order to ensure adherence in a manner that reflects honest, ethical, and professional behavior. Supports the vision, mission and strategic plans of St. Joseph’s and Trinity Health.

Organization Highlights:

• Recognized Leader: First Magnet Designated Hospital in Syracuse, highlighting our professional nursing staff.
• Shared Governance: Unit practice counsel and open-door guiding principle gives all our nurses a voice.
• Advancement: Strong orientation, leadership development programs and generous tuition allowance.
• Work/Life: Self-scheduling options to balance your work/life and school calendars.

What you will do:

• Ensure adequate staffing plan to promote safe quality care coverage 24/7.
• Develops and evaluates unit productivity plan and adjusts to reach targeted levels.
• Collaborates with finance department to develop and maintain unit/department budget for cost effective, efficient care delivery.
• Coordinates all staff with SNAP rounding to achieve most appropriate bed utilization.
• Coordinates response to urgent/emergent situations as evidenced by reallocation of personnel and resources.
• Collaborate with others including peers, physician colleagues, and administrators.
• Nursing Leadership rounds and implementation of service recovery strategies.
• Coaches, mentors and supports all staff.
• Hires, evaluates, initiates corrective action and terminates employees as needed.
• Participates in patient care activities as determined by unit needs.

Responsibilities:

• Ensures quality nursing care is rendered to all patients in accordance with the New York Nurse Practice Act, National Standards of Practice, and Nursing and Clinical Service standards of care and practice.

• Performance and staff development process.
• Oversee staff orientation program
• Unit and organizational quality improvement and outcome-based initiatives.
• Strategic goal achievement and support.
• Patient and staff satisfaction.

Education, Training, Experience, Certification and Licensure:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing required with three to five years progressive experience in the field. Advanced degree is preferred. Ideally the candidate will have strong clinical experience in the field and three to five years leadership experience.
• Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing and current licensure as a Registered Nurse in New York State.
• Participates in orientation and continuing education and updates and maintains knowledge and skills related to specific areas of expertise. Completes population specific competency annually on populations served as identified in scope of care and services.
• Maintain BLS/CPR certification. Maintain other certifications appropriate to field.
• Clinical Ladder participation preferred.

Career Path:

• Career advancement to senior leadership roles as Director or Administrative roles.

Mission Statement:

• We, St Joseph's Health and Trinity Health, serve together in the spirit of the Gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.

Vision:

• To be world-renowned for passionate patient care and outstanding clinical outcomes.

Core Values:

• In the spirit of good Stewardship, we heal by practicing Justice in fostering right relationships to promote common good, Reverence in honoring the dignity of every person, Excellence in expecting the best of ourselves and others; Integrity in being faithful to who we say we are.

Work Environment and Hazards:

• Clinical setting. Exposure Class I

Physical Demands:

• Medium work: must be able to lift 25 pounds frequently; occasionally lifting maximum of 50 pounds. Will require ability to stand, walk, sit, bend, twist, squat and reach.

Work Contact Group:

• All services, medical staff, patients, visitors, and various regulatory and professional agencies.

Supervised By:

• Unit Director and CNO.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Trinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.

Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.