Clinical Supervisor

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Seeking a full time, day shift Pediatric Psychiatric Clinical RN Supervisor. The Incumbent will be responsible for the successful management of all staff within the unit, ensuring high-quality patient care and operational efficiency. This role requires at least one year of leadership experience, an active Arizona RN license or compact license, active BLS, PALS or PEARS and prior experience in a psychiatric setting.

Key responsibilities include overseeing staff attendance and hospital-wide staffing, supervising nurses and support staff, and collaborating with the interdisciplinary team to meet unit goals. The incumbent must effectively handle emergent patient issues, including responding as part of the Behavioral Emergency Response Team (BERT), while maintaining a trauma-informed approach aligned with the Sanctuary Model-for which training will be provided. Additionally, this leader will play a critical role in fostering a positive and supportive unit culture, ensuring a safe and therapeutic environment for both patients and staff.

Must be open to schedule. No new grads will be considered. The Nursing Services Supervisor coordinates shift operational flow in conjunction with organizational and departmental strategic goals, objectives, and standards and is the hospital's clinical representative/resource for patients, families, and the healthcare team, at both the unit and organization levels. This position provides clinical leadership of patient care services and directs supervision of nursing and support staff to ensure consistent provision of developmentally appropriate quality patient care in accordance with all applicable federal, regulatory, professional standards and requirements.

Provides clinical leadership with accountability in promoting quality patient care and an engaging work environment, during assigned shift.

• Coordinates/leads daily clinical operational activities of the unit and organization by ensuring that quality family centered care is delivered in an efficient work environment.
  1. Manages patient throughput - balances unit patient care activities while overseeing the delivery of patient care, coordinating admissions, discharges, transfers, and rounding daily on patients and families.
  2. Oversees staffing processes - coordinates assignments using established staffing levels that match individualized patient needs with staff competencies, and staff skill mix through ongoing assessment of patient and unit needs.
  3. Monitors unit environment - ensures that staff has the supplies, equipment, information, and resources needed to provide quality patient care in a safe work environment.
  4. Staffs, schedules, and appropriately uses nursing and support staff.
  5. Documentation - updates scheduling, occurrence reports, patient/family concerns, and quality indicators in the real time environment maximizing resolution prior to the end of the shift.
  6. Provides a report to the oncoming Nursing Services Supervisor or designee including the status of patient throughput, staffing processes, unit environment, schedules, occurrence reports, patient/family concerns, and quality indicators.
• Collaborates with manager to lead, create, and maintain an environment that advocates for staff and promotes individual/team engagement through clinical/administrative expertise and professional leadership.
  1. Demonstrates and promotes clinical leadership - serves as a clinical and systems expert with nursing and interdisciplinary team members in the assessment, development, implementation, and evaluation of the age-specific individualized patient/family-centered plan of care and documented actions.
  2. Accountable for promoting a culture of learning resulting in staff/team development and retention.
• Achieves department/organization outcomes - aligns and manages to organization metrics.
  1. Identifies, facilitates, and leads department and organization performance improvement projects that enhance patient care delivery systems as well as staff, patient, family and customer satisfaction.
  2. Ensures timely completion and investigation of occurrence reports. Proactively identifies patient safety risks and participates in risk avoidance strategies.
  3. Takes active interest and accountability for key operational functions, including but not limited to, patient safety issues, timely resolution of complaints, quality improvement initiatives, survey preparation, and patient/family satisfaction follow-up.
  4. Makes…