Supervisor-Hospice Day Shift

Overview

NYU Langone Hospital—Suffolk is a 306-bed medical center, providing care to residents of eastern Long Island. The hospital facility is home to the Knapp Cardiac Care Center—an advanced heart disease diagnostic and treatment facility—as well as a modern ambulatory surgical pavilion with specialized services including women’s imaging, a sleep laboratory, and bariatric surgery. Our Provisional Level 2 Trauma Center delivers comprehensive and specialized care for patients with traumatic injuries.

The Stroke Center at NYU Langone Hospital—Suffolk is designated by the New York State Department of Health as a Primary Stroke Center, with expert neurologists available to provide treatment 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Additionally, NYU Langone Hospital—Suffolk has multiple outpatient sites, including an outpatient wound care center, a hemodialysis center, and various primary care and specialty offices.

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We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Supervisor-Hospice
-Full Time - Day Shift
-Mon-Fri - Hospice - - Mon-Fri 8am-4.30 pm.

In this role, the successful candidate works collaboratively with the Administrator/Director of Hospice Services and is responsible and accountable for establishing and maintaining standards, the delivery of patient care, directing and facilitating work performance of all personnel in the agency and maximizes patient outcomes. Serves as a patient care advocate and role model in the performance of direct and indirect patient care and assumes leadership role and function in absence of the Director.

• Performs other duties as assigned
• Assists Director in establishing, monitoring and evaluating standards of patient care focusing on measurable outcomes. Consistently addresses patient care needs in a timely manner. Screen inquiries and referrals and processes community requests for Hospice service in accordance with Agency policies and procedures. Participates andor sponsors multidisciplinary process improvement activities for program specific and hospital wide initiatives. Assures compliance with Joint Commission, Department of Health, NYS Department of Social Services and other regulatory agencies, as well as agency policies and procedures.
  
  Confers reasonable budget projections for staff and supplies and effectively manages fiscal responsibilities.
• Assists with attainment of specific goals and objectives in accordance with organizational and agency strategic goals. Interprets, implements and promotes agency policy; recommends policy modifications. Employs, orients, trains, supervises and appraises the performance of nursing staff; and other staff as assigned; provides case consultation and serves as a role model for nursing practice. Oversees nursing staff's work schedules, which provide for twenty-four (24) hour, seven (7) day coverage.
• Assesses the health care of patients families and responses to care rendered, and progress. Assesses, evaluates and documents patients' responses in collaboration with nursing and interdisciplinary team interventions.
• Collaborates on assessment of patient's clinical status with team members and attempts satisfactory resolution of patient clinical issues in a timely manner. Addresses patient team member issues following established communication hierarchy. Participates in identification, investigation and resolution of actual and or potential risk management quality care ethical issues. Holds team members accountable.
• Assumes leadership role and functions in the absence of Director. Ensures the provision of age appropriate and safe care service (population served). Maintain clinical knowledge base appropriate to patient population.
• Ensures flow of information to optimize operations. Encourages a functional, safe and therapeutic environment for patients and staff through regular orientation and education of staff on safety issues. Ensures staff compliance with Infection Control techniques both in practice and attendance at annual Infection Control…