Manager Clinical Resource Unit

Department: 35838 Advocate South Suburban Hospital - Med Surg: IU 3 West

Status:
Full time

Benefits Eligible:
Yes

Hours Per Week: 40

Schedule Details/Additional Information:
Day shift Mon-Friday

Pay Range: $51.05 - $76.60

• Develops, implements, manages, and evaluates nursing practice, operations and services to assure quality, efficiency, and cost effectiveness.
• Assumes 24 hour responsibility for the daily clinical and administrative functions of the nursing unit to ensure the desired level of operating efficiency.
• Maintain efficient and effective departmental operations, ensuring the availability of necessary staff, supplies and equipment.
• Establish staffing requirement and plan for appropriate utilization of human resources by assessing caseload, acuity, and complexity of patients.
• Facilitate care delivery in conjunction with the patient centered philosophy of care model.
• Utilize evidence based practice to improve care processes, structures, and measurement of patient centered outcomes and satisfaction.
• Support and facilitate care management activities to facilitate quality patient outcomes
• Facilitate smooth coordination of inter-departmental services.

• Recruits, selects, mentors, and motivates direct reports to achieve patient centered care, professional, and personnel goals and objectives
• Assist and support staff in developing and maintaining competency through orientation, educational offerings, workshops, interdisciplinary meetings and self-directed learning. Maintain and analyze data to assure staff development activities offered on the unit are of high quality and meet the needs of the staff.
• Conducts performance evaluations in a timely manner
• Provides coaching, counseling, and disciplinary actions, as appropriate.
• Assists staff with identifying professional and educational goals and provides opportunities to support achievement of the goals.
• Encourage staff to seek additional knowledge and skill by pursuing formal education, certification, and other professional development opportunities and participation in professional organizations.
• Follow established processes for receiving and resolving associate complaints and concerns.
• Promotes an understanding and effective use of organizational, management, and nursing theories and research
• Develop and mentor associates to create and support a professional practice environment based on principles of shared governance
• Facilitates staff meetings relating to dissemination of information regarding department(s), hospital, and system activities.

• Plans and prepares the operating budget for the department including appropriate FTEs and supplies based on projected growth targets.
• Exercises cost control by using all available data provided to monitor, evaluate and adjust actual expenses compared to budget.
• Adjusts staffing to meet budget requirements by monitoring productivity of staffing, patient acuity, and volume.
• Monitors department productivity levels and workforce design to ensure proper resource utilization and role delineation.
• Analyzes monthly financial, operational, and budget variance reports to assure that financial goals are achieved.
• Provides input into capital requests for the department and the division of nursing
• Identifies areas for improvemed operational efficiencies and involves staff in the development of new processes as appropriate.

• Collaborates with Physicians, leadership, and other health care…