Clinical Manager Adolescent Behavioral Health

Clinical Manager Adolescent Behavioral Health

SUMMARY:

The Clinical Manager directs nursing care and coordinates resources for a specified unit and performs administrative activities while providing leadership and support to staff. The Clinical Manager has 24-hour responsibility of one or more patient units for directing and coordinating resources for the delivery of care to the patients and families. Brown University Health employees are expected to embrace Brown University Health's mission of Delivering health with care and successfully role model Brown University Health’s values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence.

In addition to our values, all employees are expected to demonstrate the core Success Factors which tell us how we work together and how we get things done. The core Success Factors include:
Instill Trust and Value Differences;
Patient and Community Focus and Collaborate;
Ensure Accountability and Build Effective Teams;
Drive Vision and Purpose and Optimize Work Processes.

• Patient Focus, Human Resource Management, Financial Management, Departmental/Organizational Support, Clinical Practice Management/Development, and Human Capitol Development.
• Performance Improvement: Collaborates and supports the healthcare team in delivery of quality, patient‑focused care as evidenced by:
  Driving Patient Safety initiatives by reporting sentinel events, participating in root‑cause analysis, promoting evidence‑based practices and managing incident reporting;
  Developing role definitions for staff consistent with scope of practice;
  Analyzing data and identifying opportunities for improvement in patient care;
  Enhancing unit performance by encouraging education and implementation of new concepts and technology;
  Providing leadership in the development of policies, procedures, standards of care and critical pathways to promote a positive patient outcome.
• Human Resource Management
  
  Skills:
  
  Facilitates and evaluates human capital to provide quality, cost‑efficient patient care;
  Collaborates with interdisciplinary teams to foster staff development;
  Identifies and resolves nursing care conflicts related to the unit;
  Facilitates staff meetings that engage staff members on topics and issues important to unit success;
  Provides support, coaching and professional growth to the Assistant Clinical Manager;
  Provides oversight of staff evaluations and developmental goals;
  Identifies staff educational needs and works with leadership to promote continuing education and lifelong learning;
  Leads development of credentialing process and assesses compliance with unit standards;
  Demonstrates respect for Rhode Island Hospital policies, procedures, union contracts and professional nursing standards;
  Plays active role in staff recruitment and retention and conducts disciplinary action consistent with hospital policies.
• Financial Management Core Behaviors: Effectively utilizes resources to provide cost‑efficient delivery of high‑quality services;
  Encourages financially conscientious staff and participation in cost‑effective ideas and plans;
  Monitors staff compliance to schedule through weekly payroll;
  Creates and monitors the budget; foresees future revenue and expenses, utilizes staffing matrix to maximize staff productivity and eliminate waste; conducts ongoing evaluation of productivity.
• Departmental/Organizational Support: Responsible to the organizational plan for development of short and long‑term goals;
  Collaborates with Director to provide off‑shift managerial coverage;
  Directs and supervises unit staff for all shifts;
  Identifies and resolves nursing care conflict and problems;
  Communicates status of unit operations, activities and issues to the Director;
  Participates in unit management meetings and recommends fiscal and patient care objectives, standards and goals;
  Engages in shared decision making that supports a just culture and shared governance;
  Collaborates with nursing faculty to facilitate student education;
  Participates in policy, procedure and standard development;
  Influences nursing practice through professional organization participation.
• Leadership Core Behaviors: Assists in…