Patient Care Manager; RN - Transplant Clinic

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Organization: Liver Kidney TX Center

Our Transplant Center Mission is to provide end-stage organ failure patients with the opportunity to live extraordinary lives through exceptional, multidisciplinary care. This position offers day-to-day operational leadership for the Liver and Kidney Transplant Center, as well as our Transplant Outreach Clinics. Our services include hepatology, liver transplant, and kidney transplant care, with clinics located in Nashville, Clarksville, Lebanon, Franklin, Madison, Alabama, and Newburgh, Indiana.

Additionally, we support lung transplant services in Chattanooga, Knoxville, and Madison, Alabama, as well as heart transplant services in Madison, Alabama, and Newburgh, Indiana. The clinical teams reporting to this role include medical assistants, LPNs, RNs, and transplant nurse coordinators. The Manager Transplant has comprehensive operational authority and responsibility for designated solid organ transplant-specific clinical area(s). Their responsibilities include: fiscal accountability, maintaining quality and regulatory standards, maintaining a high level of patient/family centered care and service, patient and staff satisfaction, program development, managing and developing teams, and ensuring integration with the clinical enterprise.

Monday - Friday
Days

Vanderbilt Health is a leading provider of organ transplantation in the United States, giving hundreds of people new hope and longer life each year. For more than six decades, the Vanderbilt team has been committed to providing lifesaving transplants to people from all over the world. As Tennessee's only full-service transplant center, we offer the most advanced care for end-stage organ failure in children and adults.

Our transplant specialists also perform lifesaving dual-organ transplants, including heart-kidney, heart-liver, heart-lung, kidney-pancreas and liver-kidney.

• Collaborates to operationalize the mission, strategic plan, budgets, resource allocation, operational plans, and policies for the PCC, Hospitals and Vanderbilt Clinic.
• Prepares annual operating and capital budgets following established guidelines and using benchmark data.
• Work as a liaison with physician and Transplant Center leadership to promote a collaborative work environment, embodying the multidisciplinary structure of the Transplant Center.
• Participates in and contributes to system quality initiatives, research, development of care protocols and evidence-based activities that improve patient care and outcomes, that also ensure alignment with up-to-date transplant and organ-specific national guidance.
• Actively engages in activities to promote the field of organ donation and organ transplantation.
• The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.

• COMPLIANCE (Intermediate):
  Demonstrates knowledge of the appropriate rules and regulations and apply them in difficult, stressful and complex situations. Able to interpret and explain rules and regulations that are ambiguous or unclear. Directs others in interpreting rules and regulations on the job and trains others in them.
• LEADERSHIP (Intermediate):
  Motivates and inspires others to perform at a high level. Puts aside personal needs and considerations for the good of the team. Communicates in a positive and constructive way, demonstrating an enthusiasm for team and unit goals. Takes appropriate risks, showing and accepting personal accountability for actions and decisions. Gets others to share challenges and perform as a valuable member of the team and unit.
  
  Accomplishes results through influence, coaching, communication and commitment with minimal use of authority and control.
• PEOPLE MANAGEMENT (Intermediate):
  Successfully resolves conflicts and disciplinary problems. Provides counseling and career development planning to subordinates. Constructively gives timely positive and negative feedback, confronting individual performance problems in a professional and sensitive manner. Aware of the values, abilities and needs of others. Demonstrates the ability to create a…