Registered Nurse

Description

The Children’s Specialty Clinic at the Medical Center provides highly specialized medical, procedural, and infusion care for pediatric patients. Our outpatient service area supports a wide range of pediatric specialties and subspecialties, with a strong focus on personalized, interdisciplinary care for children with complex medical needs.

We are seeking a nursing leader who:

• Embraces innovative, high-quality clinical care delivery in the ambulatory setting.
• Is passionate about coaching, mentoring, and advancing the professional growth of nurses and assistive personnel.
• Is energized by building new partnerships that strengthen care delivery, especially as patients transition from clinic to community.

UNC Children’s serves children and adolescents from across North Carolina and beyond. Our talented outpatient leadership team is highly collaborative and excited to welcome a new leader to support our original flagship location in Chapel Hill.

Your passion belongs at UNC Health. Join more than 56,000 teammates working together to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve across North Carolina.

Summary:

This position supervising large clinical units. Duties include ensuring that appropriate care and services are available to patients and families, ensures adequate and appropriate clinic staffing on each shift, supervision of nursing staff, medical support staff and utility aide staff, assistance with annual performance reviews of staff, participation in quality improvement initiatives to address identified patient safety or quality of care issues.

Provides and facilitates an environment conducive to staff continuing education needs, ongoing unit-based educational needs and orientation of staff members.

Responsibilities:
1. Patient Care
- Ensures that appropriate care and services are available to patients / clients and families. Facilitates interdisciplinary collaboration in patient/client care planning. Ensures appropriate clinical staffing and skill mix for patient care. Supervises team of professionals /paraprofessionals which may include nursing staff, health unit coordinators, nursing assistants and utility aides.
2. Human Resource Management
- Effectively manages human resources. Creates an environment conducive to recruiting and retaining staff. Applies organizational policy and procedures in hiring, promoting, transferring and terminating staff. Provides staff with annual performance feedback and opportunity to set professional goals. Integrates scientific evidence regarding retention of nursing staff into unit planning.
3. Budget Management
- Effectively uses clinical and financial information to establish and meet budgetary goals. Implements strategies to increase revenue and cost effectively manage personnel, supply, and equipment resources. Evaluates the impact of strategic fiscal changes on quality outcomes.
4. Accreditation Issues
- Ensures that internal and external regulatory standards or nursing practice are met or exceeded. This includes organizational policy and procedures as well as state, Joint Commission, Board of Nursing and other specified accrediting bodies. Integrate current scientific evidence with standards of practice.
5. Quality Improvement
- Leads and participates in quality improvement initiatives that focus on identified patient safety or quality of care deficits.
6. Education
- Creates an educational environment conducive to student learning, staff continuing education, and orientation of new staff members. Accountable for annual competency evaluation of staff that ensures staff has the knowledge and skills to care for the specified patient population.
7. Customer Satisfaction
- Ensures high customer satisfaction. Communicates patient…