ERC - Team Ldr Nursing Critical Care

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Job Title & Specialty Area: ER Team Ldr Nursing
Department: ER

Location:

Plano

Shift: 3p-3a
Job Type: On‑Site

At Children's Health, our mission is to Make Life Better for Children, and we recognize that their health plays a crucial role in achieving this goal. Through our cutting‑edge treatments and affiliation with UT Southwestern, we strive to deliver an extraordinary patient and family experience, ensuring that every moment, big or small, contributes to their overall well‑being. Our dedication to promoting children's health extends beyond our organization and encompasses the broader community.

Together, we can make a significant difference in the lives of children and contribute to a brighter and healthier future for all.

The Team Leader Nursing Critical Care is responsible for providing leadership to the front line staff in collaboration with the Clinical Manager or Practice Administrator. Serves as a conduit between the front‑line nursing employees and managers for the purpose of facilitating communication, overseeing orientation of new team members in collaboration with the Clinical Educators, and evaluating clinical practice with a particular focus on quality and performance improvement.

Responsible for the results and development of assigned team members. Plans and executes day‑to‑day operational needs by setting priorities, planning for and addressing staffing needs, and coordinating work across other teams as needed. Provides guidance, coaching, and feedback to team members and provides significant input to employment decisions, addresses performance issues and administers performance reviews. Monitors key metrics and analyzes information to solve ongoing problems to improve team performance.

Serves in various clinical nursing roles (i.e., direct care nurse, charge nurse, etc.). The Team Leader, Nursing will spend 60% of their time in clinical shifts and 40% of their time in administrative/leadership, recognizing that at least 10% of their time in the clinical shifts is still spent coaching, mentoring, and developing staff. Critical care settings are defined as intensive care units and/or the emergency department.

• Perform all aspects of the Clinical Nurse job description when providing direct patient care during scheduled bed side care shifts
• People Leadership:
• - Participates in the interview and selection process of new team members
• - Administers periodic evaluations for new staff members
• - Administers annual PEAC's/merit increases
• - Provides performance feedback to staff, including the documentation and counseling of performance issues
• - Maintains positive staff relations through Evidence Based Leadership and Just Culture
• - Completes scouting reports and weekly rounding on staff
• - Ensures that staff are kept abreast of changes within the unit, department, division, and organization
• - Provides mentoring to staff and developmental opportunities to help team members achieve their career goals
• - Administers disciplinary action to staff members when necessary, up to and including terminations, with support of manager and/or director and human resources
• - Provides appropriate recognition to staff members
• - Develops and implements Action Plans as a result of the feedback received from the annual Employee Opinion Survey
• - Accountable to ensure that staff are meeting patient care needs, standards of safety, effectiveness, patient rights and guest relations
• - Ensures that staff are delivering care with a team‑orientation, an emphasis on good customer relations, sound clinical judgement and appropriate decision making abilities that take into consideration evidence based practice.
• - Ensures that staff are responsible and accountable for prescribing, delegating and coordinating patient care. Uses clinical judgment based on nursing skills acquired through formal and informal experiential knowledge and evidence based guidelines to globally assess the patient's situation and through critical thinking and clinical decision making, develop an appropriate plan of care for the patient, with the aim of promoting comfort…