Manager Resource Team

Major Responsibilities:

• Coordinates and manages all resources necessary for the clinical staffing services staff to provide care. Maintains an optimal level of productivity based on the coordination of efficient staffing and scheduling patterns and labor management standards 24 hours a day/7 days a week. Responsible for effectively managing resources through systems management, carefully coordinating system issues to assure optimal patient care.
• Evaluates the quality of patient care provided by all clinical staffing services staff by using the Standards of Practice and patient outcomes. Other quality indicators used include peer review, incident reports, use of policy and procedures, evaluation of equipment, supplies and products. Responsible to ensure that appropriate resources are available for Performance Improvement initiatives in clinical staffing services.
• Maintains unit/department in compliance with the Joint Commission on Accreditation, and other regulatory bodies.
• Maintains and promotes effective relationships with and between patients, families, department staff, other hospital departments, medical staff and their support staff, nursing instructors, other health care facilities and vendors. Participates in problem resolution as needed. Acts as a liaison between medical and nursing staff.
• Facilitates research-based nursing by creating an environment that encourages the utilization of research in practice; uses research in decision-making to maintain quality, cost and customer service; and assures the integration of research in congruence with departmental, organizational, regional and system strategic goals.
• Makes recommendations for changes in nursing practice to shared governance councils and promotes new approaches and concepts.
• Assists other departments in developing new services, identifying potential new sources of revenue and marketing of existing and new programs.
• Facilitates the integration of Aurora and Nursing divisional goals into the clinical staffing services goals.
• Performs human resources responsibilities for staff which include interviewing and selection of new employees, promotions, staff development, performance evaluations, compensation changes, resolution of employee concerns, corrective actions, terminations, and overall employee morale.
• Develops and recommends operating and capital budgets and controls expenditures within approved budget objectives.
• Responsible for understanding and adhering to the organization's Code of Ethical Conduct and for ensuring that personal actions, and the actions of employees supervised, comply with the policies, regulations and laws applicable to the organization's business.
• Must be able to demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served. Must demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his/her age-specific needs, and to provide the care needed as described in the department's policies and procedures.
  
  Age-specific information is developed further in the departmental job standards.

• Registered Nurse license issued by the state in which the team member practices.

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing.

• Typically requires 5 years of experience in nursing. Includes 1 year of supervisory experience in staff and budgets.

• Strong aptitude in human resource management.
• Ability to handle multiple demands simultaneously.
• Sound decision-making and communication skills.
• Current in use of computers, software, and other electronic systems

• Must be able to sit, stand, walk, lift, squat, bend, reach above shoulders, and twist frequently during work shift.
• Will occasionally be required to lift over 50 lbs. with assistance.
• Will be required to use foot pedals on carts or machines.
• Must have functional sight and hearing.
• Will be exposed to the following hazards on a continuous basis: mechanical, electrical, chemical, radiation, blood and body fluids.
• Will be required to wear gloves, goggles and gowns on an as-needed basis.
• Operates all nursing equipment essential to performing the duties of the job.