Job Description
Job Summary:
Manages activities of the unit(s), monitors quality, service and utilization standards. Supervises the day to day shift activities.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Manages the units day to day clinical operations including practice standards, staffing, payroll, budgets, fiscal management, and quality improvement. Ensures the highest quality of care is provided and is in compliance with federal, state, and local regulatory requirements and established departmental policies and procedures.
- Develops and implements action plans to improve staff development. Supervises a single unit (8 to 24 hours) of approximately 20 - 60+ employees.
- Monitors the allocation and utilization of personnel based on continual changes in patient population/needs and provides the best level of patient care while identifying savings opportunities.
- Supervises the daily unit operations, including human resources management, department and employee safety programs, and risk management.
- Monitors the quality of service and utilization standards and assumes specific responsibility for patient care at the unit level. Ensures coordinated plans of treatment, customer focused care and cost effective utilization of services.
- Works with health care providers outside of the unit, to achieve optimal patient care across the continuum. Researches, identifies, and implements best practice models of other units. Investigates and resolves patient/family member concerns regarding patient care.
- Kaiser Permanente conducts compensation reviews of positions on a routine basis. At any time, Kaiser Permanente reserves the right to reevaluate and change job descriptions, or to change such positions from salaried to hourly pay status. Such changes are generally implemented only after notice is given to affected employees.
Basic Qualifications:
Experience
- Minimum two (2) years of nursing experience required.
- Minimum two (2) years of experience as charge nurse, preceptor, quality improvement champion or other related leadership experience.
Education
- Graduate of accredited school of nursing. High school diploma OR General Education Diploma (GED) required.
License, Certification, Registration
- Registered Nurse License (California) required at hire
- Basic Life Support
Additional Requirements:
- Evidence of training completion as preceptor or charge nurse.
- Demonstrated knowledge of quality improvement, clinical care delivery processes, staffing, & budgeting.
- Knowledge of Nursing Practice Act, The Joint Commission & other federal, state, & local regulatory requirements.
- Strong interpersonal communication skills.
- ACLS, PALS, NRP certification may be required for positions in specific departments.
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- ACLS certification strongly preferred.
- Bachelors degree in nursing preferred.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | San Francisco, CA |
| Industry | Healthcare Services |
| Salary | $166,050 Per Year |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1945 |
| Website | http://www.kp.org/careers |
About Company
At Kaiser Permanente, we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence. Driven by our mission to provide the highest quality preventive medicine, we are committed to eliminating health care disparities, and to making lives better through innovation, technology, and research.
Our desire to deliver the best possible care inspires us to promote wellness among our members, communities, and each other. It also fuels our belief that everyone — regardless of circumstance — deserves access to affordable care, which further drives our motivation to expand our reach.
Founded nearly 80 years ago, our unique business model sets us apart — positioning us to drive improvements across the industry and around the world.
Skills
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)unmatched
- Basic Life Support (BLS)unmatched
- Best Practicesunmatched
- Budget Managementunmatched
- Budgetingunmatched
- Clinical Medicineunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Customer Relationsunmatched
- Federal Laws and Regulationsunmatched
- Financial Managementunmatched
- Healthcare Providersunmatched
- Human Resources Managementunmatched
- Interpersonal Skillsunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Nursingunmatched
- Nursing Managementunmatched
- Operationsunmatched
- Patient Careunmatched
- People Managementunmatched
- Policy Developmentunmatched
- Procedure Developmentunmatched
- QoS (Quality of Service)unmatched
- Quality Managementunmatched
- Quality Monitoringunmatched
- Quality of Careunmatched
- Registered Nurse (RN)unmatched
- Regulatory Requirementsunmatched
- Risk Managementunmatched
- Safety/Work Safetyunmatched
- Staff Developmentunmatched
- State Laws and Regulationsunmatched
- The Joint Commission (TJC)unmatched
- Treatment Planunmatched
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