Clinical Supervisor RN Labor & Delivery

Responsibilities

Job Title:

Clinical Supervisor
- Labor & Delivery

Status:

Schedule:

Day

Join Our Exceptional Team at George Washington University Hospital

Since opening its doors in 2002, George Washington University Hospital has been at the forefront of medical innovation, providing cutting-edge care in a state-of-the-art facility. As a 395-bed tertiary care, academic medical center located in the heart of downtown Washington, DC, our hospital is renowned for its Level I Trauma Center and Level III NICU. We offer unparalleled expertise in cardiac, cancer, neurosciences, womens health, and advanced surgical procedures, including robotic and minimally invasive techniques.

Operated by Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS), one of the nations leading healthcare providers, we are committed to excellence in patient care and organizational growth.

GWUHoffers comprehensive benefits such as:

• Challenging and rewarding work environment
• Competitive Compensation
• Career development opportunities across UHS and our 300+ locations!
• Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision, and Prescription Drug Plan
• Generous Paid Time Off
• 401(K) with company match and discounted stock plan
• Tuition Reimbursement
• SoFi Student Loan Refinancing Program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Career development opportunities within UHS and its Subsidiaries
• More information is available on our Benefits Guest Website:

Labor and Delivery

We provide clinically advanced, personalized childbirth services with a collaborative approach with Advanced Practitioners and Providers. As a teaching and research hospital, advanced science is accessible for the most challenging birth situations.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Provides shift to shift oversight for clinical practice, staffing, patient flow, safety, service, and utilization of resources for daily operations. Maintains the environment of care.
• Provides care to patients in a competent, capable, caring and efficient manner. Care provided is appropriate to the age of the patients served.
• Role models organizational values
• Provides real-time feedback to staff to improve performance
• Leads/Participates in department process improvement to improve projects outcomes

Leadership Responsibilities

• Evaluates daily clinical practice against defined standards and provides constructive feedback and preventative counseling to staff
• Acts as a resource for employees on matters of clinical practice and issue resolution
• Clearly communicates organizational and department messages to staff
• Participates in the development of long- and short-range goals for the department and services that are consistent with goals and objectives of the hospital
• Assists Nurse Manager in monitoring, confirming, educating staff of safety procedures and regulatory compliance. Proactively identifies opportunities for improvement and takes appropriate corrective action and escalates concerns when needed.
• Participates in hiring process and helps coordinate peer interviews

Patient Experience

• Observes that patient engagement and safety strategies (use of communication boards, hourly rounding, bedside shift report, multidisciplinary rounds, care bundles etc.) are consistently practiced.
• Provides staff and manager feedback on the quality and consistency of these practices. Oversee patient callbacks.
• Participates in daily leader rounding to assess satisfaction with the patient experience
• Communicates department patient experience results and action plans to staff

People Responsibilities

• Respond to employee concerns as they are identified and escalate concerns to the Nurse Manager as needed
• In collaboration with Nurse Manager develops action plans (based on data analysis) that result in improvement in employee engagement data with sustained improvement over time
• Provides employees with clarity about expectations and clear feedback about performance; deals with performance problems in an appropriate and timely way and escalates concerns to the Nurse Manager as needed
• Participate in unit-based professional governance
• In collaboration with Nurse Manager and Educator(s) coordinate unit-based orientation and selection of preceptors and supports on boarding of new employees

Quality, Safety, Compliance Responsibilities

• Contributes to the development of department-based quality/process improvement plans and supports the implementation of improvement strategies and evidence-based practice changes and monitor the effectiveness of improvement efforts. Participate in lead daily management and other improvement projects.
• Daily evaluation of clinical care to ensure safety, reduce complications, and improve patient outcomes

Finance Responsibilities

• Ensures daily staffing is aligned with the budgeted staffing plan and clinical needs of patients. Monitors daily productivity
• Assists with staffing and patient flow beds each shift, proactively forecasts staffing needs
• Utilizes a proactive approach to patient transfers and discharges; works with Case Management and clinical partners to identify barriers to and ensure a timely and efficient…