Clinical Manager NICU Nights

Desert Regional Medical Center is a 385 bed acute-care hospital classified as a stroke receiving center and level I trauma facility with an innovative, patient centered, and evidence-based Rehabilitation Services Department. Our compassionate team provides a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, including acute care rehabilitation, joint replacement & spinal surgery, neurosurgery, ICU, Telemetry, step-down care, skilled nursing, as well as outpatient therapy, hand and lymphedema clinics.

• The Clinical Manager is responsible for the day-to-day shift operations in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
• He/she manages human resources at the unit level in a cost-effective manner.
• The Clinical Manager promptly and fully investigates and resolves complaints of patients, visitors, staff, and physicians, advising management/administration appropriately.
• The Clinical Manager demonstrates an ability to respond and provide direction in changing workload during crisis and emergency situations.
• The Clinical Manager accepts responsibility for helping employees understand difficult administrative decisions.
• Access to all Patient Health Information for treatment purposes only.

• Obtains information and interpret information in terms of the patient's needs.
• Demonstrates knowledge of growth and development.
• Understands the range of treatment needed as appropriate to the ages of the patients served.
• Ensures that a current criteria-based job performance standard and applicable competencies exist for each member of the staff.
• Ensures that performance evaluations are completed in a timely fashion for both annual and probationary evaluations.
• Facilitates the appropriate completion and timely submission of human resource documentation.
• Appropriately counsels and disciplines staff in a timely manner.
• Interviews and hires staff.
• Coordinates timely attendance at hospital orientation and all mandatory continuing education programs for employees.
• Assures current, comprehensive, and timely department-specific orientation for all new employees.
• Maintains current records on all employees at unit level to include yearly certification, current licensure, evidence of continuing education and compliance with unit competencies.
• Maintains an open communication with staff on organization, national health care and professional issues.
• Promotes sound staffing practices by optimizing the utilization of human resources keeping in line with established bench marking and acuity data.
• Assesses and assists in the implementation of staff development and cross training as needed.
• Supports all hospital programs to include, but not limited to, risk management, safety, infection control.
• Performs the scheduling function.
• Facilitates unit workflow and teamwork.
• Assists in and understands YTD compliance with labor hour benchmark per unit of service.
• Acts to facilitate interdepartmental interactions.
• Demonstrates effective problem-solving.
• Assists in the completion of standards of care, policies, and procedures are appropriate and current and that they have been reviewed with all staff members.
• Assists in the review and revise of policies and procedures as necessary, but not less that every three years.
• Assist the Director in the development and accomplishment of department long and short-term goals.
• Assists in the controls and monitor of supply costs to achieve flexed budgeted costs on a quarterly basis.
• Identifies areas of cost savings through labor, supply utilization efficiencies, and communicates suggestions to Director.
• Maintains personal current knowledge and expertise in the specialty field of the department, and of regulatory.
• Assists in development of a department strategic plan.
• Facilities and supports the clinical strategic plan.
• Integrates PI into daily operations.
• Utilizes PI philosophy in developing strategic directions.
• Assists in the collection of data for unit based improvement, and other ongoing reviews, which serve as quality trending.
• Obtains feedback on a regular basis from others within own and other departments.
• Collaborates with Director on mechanisms for improvement.
• Communicates self, staff concerns through…