RN Skilled Nursing SNF - Clinical Coordinator

Work Schedule: 3 days per week, 7p-7a/Rotating Weekends

Take the next step in your healthcare leadership career as a Clinical Nurse Coordinator (RN) within the Skilled Nursing and Inpatient Rehabilitation service line at HCA Houston Healthcare Southeast in Pasadena, TX. In this pivotal frontline leadership role, you will bridge the gap between clinical excellence and unit administration by managing daily shift operations, supervising long-term recovery goals, and mentoring a dedicated post-acute nursing team. Operating within our comprehensive, multi-disciplinary framework, you will oversee the delivery of specialized treatments and restorative services, including long-term medical stabilization, post-stroke neurological recovery, complex wound care protocols, intravenous (IV) therapies, and integrated physical, occupational, and speech therapy plans.

Choosing this leadership path means driving clinical outcomes within an award-winning care network ranked by Healthgrades among America’s 250 Best Hospitals™ and celebrated with five consecutive Patient Safety Excellence Awards™. You will lead a high-performing unit backed by an "A" Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group and aligned with elite national Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit of Distinction benchmarks within the HCA Healthcare network. Your shift-level supervision will directly ensure a safe, high-quality continuum of care, blending clinical precision with compassionate restorative medicine within an organization recognized globally by the Ethisphere Institute as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies®.

Job Summary and Qualifications 

The Clinical Nurse Coordinator (CNC) ensures and delivers high quality, patient-centered care and coordination of all functions in the unit/department during the designated shift. In collaboration with other members of the management team, the CNC directs, monitors, and evaluates nursing care in accordance with established policies/procedures, serves as a resource person for staff, and models a commitment to the organization’s vision/mission/values to support an unparalleled patient experience and clinical outcomes that contribute to overall departmental performance.

What you will do in this role:

• Assists with admission and discharge processes to ensure efficient throughput and high quality, patient-centered care.
• Participates in the ongoing assessment of the quality of patient care services provided in the unit, in collaboration with other members of the management team.
• Collaborates with subject matter experts and other managers to create an environment of teamwork that supports improved outcomes and service.
• Supports a patient-first philosophy and engages in service recovery when necessary.
• Supports the efforts of the facility to improve engagement by operationalizing current nursing strategies, including employee rounding, hourly rounds, and other initiatives.
• Provides recommendations related to interviewing, selecting, and training new staff. Recommends and implements courses of action, including training and development, conflict resolution, personnel policy compliance, completion of performance evaluations, and/or disciplinary actions to ensure a competitively better organization.
• Assists with staff scheduling. Manages all practical aspects of staff labor in accordance with patient care needs and established productivity guidelines.
• Supports proper inventory control and assists with managing supplies and equipment.

What qualifications you will need:

• Graduate of an accredited diploma, associates, or baccalaureate degree registered nursing program.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing preferred.
• Current Registered Nurse License in the State of Texas or Multi-State Compact License (Employees with RN Compact License are required to obtain Texas RN License within 90 days of hire date)
• Current BLS issued from American Heart Association required
• Charge Nurse experience is highly preferred
• 1 year of RN experience in a Rehab, Skilled Nursing setting is required.

Geriatric, LTC, long-term care, sub-acute rehab, RAI, resident assessment instrument, MDS, ADL, activities of daily living, restorative, memory, dementia, complex wound care, G-tube, J-tube, enteral nutrition, IV, intravenous, PICC lines, catheter, ostomy, stoma, respiratory, tracheostomy, oxygen therapy, polypharmacy, narcotic, controlled substance, CMS, state survey readiness, IPCP, infection control, prevention, incident reporting, MDS, coding, IDT, interdisciplinary, fall prevention, skin integrity, pressure ulcer, palliative, hospice, end-of-life, RAC-CT, WCC, WOCN, GCCN

Benefits

HCA Houston Healthcare Southeast, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services 
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services 
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence 
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling 
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing 
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts 

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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location. 

HCA Houston Healthcare Southeast is a full-service 340+ bed acute care hospital in Pasadena, Texas. We have been a leader of medical care in Pasadena for more than 50 years. With board-certified physicians, registered nurses and expert technicians, the community has come to rely on us for top-quality, comprehensive and compassionate healthcare. HCA Houston Southeast is the only hospital in Pasadena with both Chest Pain Center Accreditation with Primary PCI and Resuscitation by the American College of Cardiology and full accreditation by The Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. We are members of HCA Houston Healthcare, the most comprehensive family of hospitals in the region and part of the leading provider of healthcare in the country, HCA Healthcare. Together we are stronger, smarter and more accessible in providing the patient-centered care you need close to home.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"The great hospitals will always put the patient and the patient's family first, and the really great institutions will provide care with warmth, compassion, and dignity for the individual."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr. HCA Healthcare Co-Founder 

Join a family that cares about every stage in your career! We are interviewing candidates for our Clinical Nurse Coordinator Rehab Skilled Nursing opening. Apply today and a member of our Talent Acquisition team will reach out.