Administrative House Manager

Description

Summary:

Manages, coordinates and supervises the care of patients, including appropriate patient placement and the facilitation of patient throughput based on the changing needs of the patient population. Provides advanced patient assessment skills that include emergent rapid response, monitoring critically ill patients, and facilitating throughput to varying levels of care as patient conditions require.

Responsibilities:

1. Provides leadership skills in a knowledgeable, consistent and continuous manner that fosters collaboration with co-workers, teamwork, communication, respect for others, and accountability both within and across departments. Coaches and mentors staff in the acquisition of leadership skills.
2. Assesses and monitors critically ill patients, and facilitates throughput to varying levels of care as patient conditions require including the transporting of patients.

3. Provides clinical consultation to staff in all departments for clinical critical thinking and clinical support for patient care.

4. Responds to all emergency calls, codes, and alerts within the hospital and directs and organizes the process to achieve the optimum patient outcome.

5. Provides support for the vascular access needs of the patients.

6. Responsible for evaluation and development of all employees to include hiring, counseling and termination. Fosters a learning environment for staff and encourages self-development.

7. Ensures that the highest level of clinical practice is maintained to deliver safe, effective and appropriate patient care. Directs patient care activities, supporting unit manager goals including development of standards of care and unit function in the clinical specialty.

8. Evaluates patient satisfaction and implements improvement interventions as indicated.

9. Develops unit goals and objectives in alignment with the organization mission and goals. Collaborates with the management team in the strategic planning process to support organizational initiatives.

10. Manages patient throughput as it relates to patient placement, aligning of competent resources and timely and effective turnover.

11. Responsible for all clinical functions of the organization. Supports unit manager clinical and operational goals.

12. Facilitates throughput to varying levels of care as patient conditions require including the transporting of patients.

13. Plans and projects staffing for the next shift utilizing unit staffing grids, director's input and assessment of unit acuity and activity.

14. Communicates effectively across the organization, actual and potential operational, clinical and risk management issues in a timely manner to all appropriate levels in the organization (ex: CNO, AOC, DOC, Manager UWW, & Department Managers).

15. Fulfills all compliance responsibilities related to the position.

16. Performs other duties as assigned.

Education: BACHELOR'S LVL DGRE

Other Information:

Required: 3 years Job related experience Bachelor Degree required for those hired after July 2011. Strong Leadership and critical thinking skills. Excellent oral and written communication skills. Excellent decision making skills to resolve organizational and patient care issues. Flexibility to meet the needs of the organization.
Minimum Experience: three years

Desired: ACLS, PALS, TNCC.

Working Conditions:

Manual: significant manual skills/motor coord & finger dexterity

Occupational: Significant occupational risk

Physical Effort: Very Heavy effort. May exert up to 50 lbs. force

Physical Environment: Significant exposure to dirt, odors, noise, human waste, etc.

Credentials:RN

Company: Danbury Hospital

Org Unit: 166

Department: Nursing Clin Adm Supervisor

Exempt: Yes

Salary Range: $51.31 - $95.29 Hourly