Assistant Director of Nursing

Direct Reports: Clinical Services Manager, Health Care Coordinator, Infectious Disease Case Manager, Rheum IV Infusion Nurse, Rheum Customer Experience Coordinator

The Director of Nursing assumes responsibility, authority and accountability for the delivery of clinical support staff and ancillary services throughout all clinics and service facilities of Central Florida Health Care.

• Education:
  • Currently licensed as a Registered Nurse in the state of Florida
  • Bachelor’s degree in nursing strongly preferred
  • Strong leadership, clinical, and administrative skills; at least two years of clinical nursing leadership experience required
  • Preferred experience in ambulatory care and Joint Commission accredited facility
  • Familiarity with the FQHC model and reporting requirements preferred
  • Bilingual English/Spanish preferred
• Computer
  
  Skills:
  
  E-mail, internet, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), practice management and electronic health record software, preferably Athena
• Other requirements:
  Able to work flexible hours and travel to each clinic as needed

• Ensure clinics are Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) and Joint Commission compliant with policies and procedures including ambulatory care and PCMH standards
• Approve and maintain equipment, supply, and medication/vaccine formularies within specified procurement vendors, as well as review potential medications/vaccines, supplies and equipment for in-office use
• Review in-office medication and vaccine changes with Pharmacy and Therapeutics (P&T) Committee
• Review in-office medication, vaccine, and supply costs with Director of Revenue Cycle for charge master and sliding fee scale updates
• Open new departments/clinics, procuring medical equipment and supplies
• Add and maintain vaccine and lab temperature monitoring system for all clinics
• Add and maintain med room medication waste pickup for all clinics
• Add and maintain Lab Corp, Quest, or other laboratory processing vendors for all clinics
• Add and maintain Department of Health Radiology licensing for all clinics with x-ray
• Add and maintain Vaccine for Children (VFC) Program for state funded vaccines for all pediatric clinics
• Create and maintain clinical competencies and provide subject matter for computer-based training for clinical support staff and ancillary services
• Provide periodic training to staff and providers to improve clinical care and clinical programming with the greater goal of improving quality of services and patient satisfaction, patient safety, and risk management
• Work with Chief Quality Officer/Risk Manager (CQO/RM) to understand UDS clinical quality measures and propose improvements to patient care to positively impact the results
• Utilize electronic health record to pull data, analyze the data and create reports to drive performance improvement
• Responsible for periodic audits of medical documentation and clinical processes across the organization to critically assess for adherence to policies and reporting results of audits to the management team in a timely manner
• Analyzes data for patterns and trends in care delivery; works on discovering root causes for specific patient care trends
• Attend appropriate clinical and operational meetings
• Attend networking events to focus on building relationships with community leaders that can assist the organization in meeting goals and objectives
• Aid nurse managers and clinical training and development for all newly hired clinical support staff for completion of orientation and competencies. (Theory orientation to include the clinical policies and procedures and Joint Commission or federal grant requirements that involve clinical support staff. Practical orientation to include assessment of all clinical skills that employees will be expected to perform on a routine basis)
• Cooperate with supervisory staff in performing periodic assessments to determine deficiencies in nursing performance at all sites and examining employee relations
• Performance evaluation of nurse managers is to include but is not limited to: log keeping, Environment of Care…