Senior Nurse Care Coordinator

Compensation Range: $100,000-110,000 commensurate with experience

Benefits: 
We have three comprehensive healthcare plans to choose from based on your priorities and budget. Housing Works covers most of the plan; you pay a portion, based on your salary. Staff begins accruing PTO immediately for a total of up to 30 days earned in the first year. We offer employees an educational benefit. This money is available for tuition loan reimbursement, tuition costs, and text books. 
 

Overview: 

The Senior Nurse Manager will assist in ensuring the nursing department provides consistent, attentive, and efficient care to patients. The Senior Nurse Manager is responsible for monitoring nursing staff, nursing activities, and patient care, as well as ensuring nursing activities are in compliance with federal, state, and local standards. The Senior Nurse Manager serves as a representative and promotes the best interests of their staff and the patients they serve.

Responsibilities: 

• Assist the Director of Nursing in the development, maintenance, and implementation of nursing policies and procedures that conform to current standards of evidence-based nursing practice while maintaining compliance with state and federal laws and regulations.
• Communicates and interprets policies and procedures to nursing staff, and monitors staff practices and implementation.
• Assist Director of Nursing in the establishment, implementation, and monitoring of the infection control program designed to provide a safe, sanitary and comfortable environment designed to prevent the transmission of disease and infection.
• Oversees and supervises RNs, LPNs, and MAs and in the development and delivery of in-service education to equip nursing staff with knowledge and skills to provide quality care to patients.
• Participates in the recruitment and selection of nursing personnel and assures that staff are properly trained.
• Evaluates the work performance of all nursing personnel and implements discipline according to operational policies.
• Coordinates and develops on-going QA activities for nursing services in collaboration with QI department.
• Oversees schedules for RNs, LPNs, MAs to ensure proper coverage.
• Proactively develops positive employee relations.
• Promotes teamwork, mutual respect, and effective communication.
• Promotes customer service and responds to and adequately resolves complaints or concerns from patients about nursing services.
• Collaborates with department heads, interdisciplinary teams and other stakeholders to develop, implement and evaluate programs and services to maintain a high quality of care for patients.
• Serves as a liaison between agency and laboratory, radiology, and specialist consultation services.
• Maintains nursing supplies through studying usage reports, identifying upward or downward trends, anticipating needs, and approval of requisitions and cost allocations.
• Maintain professional and technical knowledge and skills through attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks and participating in professional organizations.
• Please note: the above is intended to describe the essential job functions, the general supplemental functions and the essential requirements for the performance of the job. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of all the job functions.