Patient Safety Supervisor; Sat Sun

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Patient Safety Team Cohort 10

Assists department leadership in daily management operations. Assists department leadership in assuring quality of work and measuring and improving customer service. Responsible for leading the day-to-day operations of a team to optimize staffing and serve as a resource to team members both on the team and unit nursing colleagues.

• Assists in development/management of daily work schedules, daily operations, and new employee orientation, ongoing training and performance evaluations.
• Makes frequent rounds of behavioral health, medical hold, and at-risk patients. Identifies and corrects areas of opportunity.
• Conducts quality & safety inspections and documents findings. Provides constructive and positive feedback to staff regarding inspection results. Ensures safe completion of work assignments.
• Initiates contact and establishes positive relationships with key nursing leaders to ensure satisfaction with service.
• Addresses patient safety issues promptly with communication back to nursing leaders and key employees. Documents patient safety concerns and develops resolution with department leadership.
• Works as a member of the Patient Safety Team, as needed.
• The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.

• Communication (Advanced):
  Clearly, effectively and respectfully communicates to employees or customers.
• Human Growth & Development (Intermediate):
  Demonstrates mastery of human growth and development in practical applications of a difficult nature. Possesses sufficient knowledge, training, and experience to be capable of successfully delivering human growth and development services without requiring support and instruction from others. Able to train and educate by setting the example, giving technical instruction, providing leadership, and generally raising the level of performance of others while on the job.
• Facilitation of Positive Coping Strategies (Intermediate):
  Demonstrates mastery of facilitation of positive coping strategies in practical applications of a difficult nature. Possesses sufficient knowledge, training, and experience to be capable of successfully delivering facilitation services without requiring support and instruction from others. Able to train and educate by setting the example, giving technical instruction, providing leadership, and generally raising the level of performance of others while on the job.
• Vital Signs (Intermediate):
  Demonstrates mastery of taking vital signs in practical applications of a difficult nature. Possesses sufficient knowledge, training, and experience to be capable of successfully delivering vital sign services without requiring support and instruction from others. Able to train and educate by setting the example, giving technical instruction, providing leadership, and generally raising the level of performance of others while on the job.

• Organizational Impact:
  Executes job responsibilities with the understanding of how output would affect and impact other areas related to own job area/team with occasional guidance.
• Problem Solving/ Complexity of work:
  Analyzes moderately complex problems using technical experience and judgment.
• Breadth of Knowledge:
  Has expanded knowledge gained through…