Nurse Manager

Sea Mar Community Health Centers, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) founded in 1978, is a community-based organization committed to providing quality, comprehensive health, human, housing, educational and cultural services to diverse communities, specializing in service to Latinos in Washington State. Sea Mar proudly serves all persons without regard to race, ethnicity, immigration status, gender, or sexual orientation, and regardless of ability to pay for services.

Sea Mar's network of services includes more than 90 medical, dental, and behavioral health clinics and a wide variety of nutritional, social, and educational services.

We are recruiting for the following position:
Sea Mar is a mandatory COVID-19 and flu vaccine organization.

The primary role of the Nurse Manager is to coordinate nursing roles and responsibilities to ensure effective patient care is being provided. In doing so, each patients will receive quality, patient-centered care following clinical guidelines for both preventive care and chronic disease management. The Nurse Manager is considered a leader of the local operations team and works collaboratively with the Clinic Manager, Medical Director and other departments to ensure all performance measures are met, which include but are not limited to clinical quality measures, provider productivity and resource management.

Additionally, outreach may need to be performed for patients who have care gaps or who have yet to be seen. The Nurse Manager is responsible for the implementation of evidence-based practices and ensures nursing care practices are consistent with standards of care and practice regulations. The Nurse Manager is responsible for evaluating clinic operations and performances, and continually evaluates programs, processes and procedures, and implements and sustains changes in cohesion with Sea Mar practices.

As a licensed professional, the Nurse Manager holds a leadership position in the organization and within the clinic. She/he implements changes as necessary to maintain quality care and competent staff. The Nurse Manager provides clinical and administrative supervision of all clinical care team personnel in the clinic, including registered nurses (RNs), licensed practical nurses (LPNs) and medical assistants (MAs), and functions as the site supervisor for other ancillary staff such as care coordinators, integration specialists, health educators, health advocates and others as directed.

The Nurse Manager is responsible for ensuring all employees adhere to the AIDET model of service with the expectation that every employee provides exceptional service to every person, every time.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

• Provides leadership and guidance to other nurses and clinical staff.
• Supervises, trains and evaluates the performance of clinical care team staff, including medical assistant supervisors, medical assistants and other licensed nurses.
• Supervises ancillary employees including care coordinators, integration specialists, health educators, health advocates and others as directed.
• Provides staff training using a variety of methods and assesses competency by administering competency tests.
• Addresses personnel issues to promote a productive and supportive work environment.
• Monitors staff performance relative to quality patient care.
• Actively participates with executive management, interdisciplinary teams and other stakeholders to develop, implement and evaluate programs and services.
• Applies evidence-based healthcare practices and nursing standards according to organizational protocols.
• Reviews and analyzes clinic and organizational data to measure the effectiveness of quality patient care.
• Confers with Clinic Manager and Medical Director to ensure 18-21 patients seen by provider per day.
• Teaches and demonstrates skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of patients served.
• Teaches and demonstrates the principles of growth and development over the lifespan.
• Teaches clinical guidelines for preventive care and chronic disease management. This includes understanding the needs of patients according to age, gender and clinical presentation.
• Oversees and coordinates the daily operations of the clinic in the absence of the Clinic Manager.
• Conducts nursing audits to measure staff performance and quality measures. The interval of audits may be daily, weekly or monthly as directed by performance.
• Utilizes the nursing model of…