Clinical LEADER Mental Health- Addictions and Acute Care

Overview

Job Description Summary With limited supervision, the Clinical Staff Leader (CSL) reports to the Nurse Manager. For each shift worked, the CSL functions as the department’s designated nurse leader providing operational oversight and staff supervision. The CSL works in coordination with nursing leadership. The position ensures the achievement of optimal evidence-based patient care and department goals through efficient daily operations and compliance with established rules, regulations, and guidelines.

The CSL promotes Shared Governance structure and functions. The CSL assists with providing leadership presence and staff support by providing coverage for a minimum 1 holiday per year and 2 weekend shifts per six (6) weeks of unit staffing schedule, or the equivalent of 3 weekend shifts every 2 schedules.

Entity Medical University Hospital Authority (MUHA)

Worker Type Employee

Worker Sub-Type Regular

Cost Center CC000546 CHS - Nursing - Psychiatric Addiction - IP (IOP)

Pay Rate Type Salary

Pay Grade Health-29

Scheduled Weekly Hours 40

Work Shift

Job Description

Hours per week: 40

Scheduled Work Hours/Shift: 7p-7a, dayshift management hours

Fair Labor Standards Act Status: Salary

With limited supervision, the Clinical Staff Leader (CSL) reports to the Nurse Manager. For each shift worked, the CSL functions as the department’s designated nurse leader providing operational oversight and staff supervision. The CSL works in coordination with nursing leadership. The position ensures the achievement of optimal evidence-based patient care and department goals through efficient daily operations and compliance with established rules, regulations, and guidelines.

The CSL promotes Shared Governance structure and functions. The CSL assists with providing leadership presence and staff support by providing coverage for a minimum 1 holiday per year and 2 weekend shifts per six (6) weeks of unit staffing schedule, or the equivalent of 3 weekend shifts every 2 schedules.

• Bachelor of Nursing degree or Associates of Nursing degree and currently enrolled in an accredited BSN program with one year of work experience as a Registered Nurse required.
• Certification in specialty area is strongly preferred.
• Successful completion of CSL competency-based training is required within a designated time period.
• Extensive knowledge of the department’s patient population, health care trends, community and regional resources and service availability to these populations.
• Demonstrated ability to establish effective collegial working relationships with diverse groups and individuals, medical staff, and other healthcare disciplines.

• Licensure as a registered nurse by the South Carolina Board of Nursing or a compact state.
• Current Basic Life Support (BLS) required, either a certification from an American Heart Association (AHA) BLS for Healthcare Providers (or AHA recognized equivalent) or an American Red Cross CPR/AED for Professional Rescuer and Healthcare Provider.
• Some positions require certification in Advanced Cardiac Life Support.
• Certification as a generalist in a related specialty area by the American Nurses Association (ANA) preferred.

• Physical Requirements:
  
  Ability to perform job functions while standing (Continuous); sitting (Continuous); walking (Continuous); climbing stairs (Infrequent); indoors/outdoors exposure (Continuous/Infrequent); various postures and movements as detailed in the original description.

Note:

The original includes extensive detailed physical requirements; for brevity and clarity, this refined description preserves the types of physical demands without duplicating every sub-item. If a fuller verbatim list is required, it can be added under this section as a nested list.

Selected positions mention additional notes about olfactory function and respirator qualification requirements; this section is retained in condensed form to reflect eligibility considerations as described in the original.

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