Nurse Manager - Iowa River Landing

The Iowa River Landing Clinic is seeking a 100% Nurse Manager. This role provides managerial and clinical leadership to assure that all staff provide safe and clinical care and have the education, methods, and resources to accomplish their performance objectives.

University of Iowa Health Care—recognized as one of the best hospitals in the United States—is Iowa's only comprehensive academic medical center and a regional referral center. Each day more than 12,000 employees, students, and volunteers work together to provide safe, quality health care and excellent service for our patients. Simply stated, our mission is:
Changing Medicine. Changing Lives.®

University of Iowa Health Care–Iowa River Landing offers the world-class, academic-level medicine you expect from UI Health Care in a convenient medical office building that makes visiting the doctor a pleasant experience. Our pledge at UI Health Care–Iowa River Landing is that our patients will receive the best possible care in a friendly, compassionate, efficient way.

• Provide managerial and clinical leadership for patient care to ensure optimal patient outcomes.
• Facilitate multidisciplinary participation in the identification and resolution processes for clinical issues and situations.
• Educate and mentor staff in the management of complex patient care
• Monitor clinic patient volumes and ongoing changes in patient needs, acuity, and complexity.
• Formulate, review, and revise policy and other standards of professional practice essential for optimum delivery of patient care; assure compliance with established standards of care.
• Actively seek the participation from staff on decision‑making and customer service improvement activities; provide staff incentives and rewards for contributions toward achievement of service excellence.
• Identify inefficiencies in current practice/processes, demonstrate tolerance for change and develop a means to enhance the process.
• Build and sustain relationships, resolve conflict, and develop collaborative working relationships.
• Monitor operating budget, analyze variance, and create a corrective action for expense reduction as needed.
• Manage the talents, strength, and behavior of each individual employee under their direct supervision and in a varied work group; provide each employee with the opportunity to contribute to the goals of the unit.
• Make effective and timely recommendations in matters of hiring, promotion, transfer, and disciplinary action(s). Make appropriate hiring decisions.
• Assure performance expectations are clearly understood; hold staff accountable to meet or exceed patient needs/expectations, as well as maintain standards of collaboration and respect within and among multidisciplinary teams.
• Review attendance data, recognize trends, and take appropriate follow‑up with staff.
• Work in direct patient care, as needed, to ensure patient safety standards are met and maintained
• Other duties as assigned.

• Regular salaried position located in Iowa City, Iowa
• Fringe benefit package including paid vacation; sick leave; health, dental, life and disability insurance options; and generous employer contributions into retirement plan
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Percent of Time: 100%

Schedule: 40 hours/week will be accomplished between the times of 7:30am-5:30pm, Monday-Friday; late coverage and rotating weekends.

Location: Iowa River Landing Clinic

• Master’s Degree in Nursing or related field is required. If Master’s degree in a related field, Baccalaureate in Nursing is required.
• Must obtain an advanced degree in nursing, health care administration, or business administration within (5) years of beginning this position.
• Current license to practice nursing in Iowa

• Considerable (3‑5 years) experience in leadership/management roles
• Experience with unit operations including human resources, financial management, quality and regulatory standards
• Experience in clinical practice required: minimum (3‑5 years) multispecialty outpatient clinical setting
• Demonstrates excellent written and verbal communication skills
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