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<body><h3>Nurse Manager II - Emergency Department</h3><br/><div> <b>Job Summary:</b></div> <br/>In addition to the responsibilities below, this position is also responsible for leading the implementation of best practice models; leading the implementation of patient care delivery systems and practice standards in several locations; delegating tasks related to the investigation and resolution of patient/family/member concerns regarding patient care and services; facilitating collaboration with physicians, outside healthcare providers, and other health care team members to achieve optimal and safe patient care across the continuum; proactively monitoring resource needs in several clinical areas to ensure appropriate assignment and utilization; managing the use and maintenance of equipment, supplies and medications; ensuring a safe environment for patients and employees; maintaining clinical expertise, providing clinical supervision, competency and licensing necessary to fulfill job responsibilities and to direct the provision of care in the unit; delegating tasks and duties that are aligned to scope of practice; and performing clinical duties as required. Collaborates with Nursing Clinical Practice to ensure assistants and staff provide the highest quality of care and are in compliance with the Nursing Practice Act, The Joint Commission, federal, state, and local requirements.  Note: Depending on assignment, this position may require technical or supervisory experience in one or more specialty areas, including but not limited to Operating Room/Procedure Suite, Emergency Services, Critical Care, Maternal Child Health, etc.<br/><div><b>Essential Responsibilities:</b></div> <br/><ul style="margin-top: 0;margin-left: 1px;margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Creates and advocates for developmental opportunities for others; builds collaborative, cross-functional relationships. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; works with leaders and employees to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to drive performance improvement. Pursues professional growth; hires, trains, and develops talent for growth opportunities; strategically evaluates talent for succession planning; sets performance management guidelines and expectations across teams / units. Oversees implementation, adapts, and stays up to date with organizational change, challenges, feedback, best practices, processes, and industry trends; shares best practices within and across teams. Fosters open dialogue amongst team members, engages, motivates, and promotes collaboration within and across teams; motivates teams to meet business objectives. Delegates tasks and decisions as appropriate; provides appropriate support, guidance and scope; encourages development and consideration of options in decision making; fosters access to stakeholders.</li><li>Manages designated units or teams by translating business plans into tactical action items; oversees the completion of work assignments and identifies opportunities for improvement; ensures all policies and procedures are followed; partners with key stakeholders and business leaders to ensure products and/or services meet requirements and expectations while aligning with departmental strategies. Aligns team efforts; builds accountability for and measuring progress in achieving results; assumes responsibility for decision making; fosters direct reports to resolve escalated issues as appropriate. Communicates goals and objectives; incorporates resources, costs, and forecasts into team and unit plans; ensures matrixed resources are fulfilling service or performance requirements across reporting lines. Removes obstacles that impact performance; identifies and addresses improvement opportunities; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; influences teams and units to operate in alignment with operational and business objectives.</li><li>Manages hospital administrative functions to support patient care by: negotiating timelines for action item implementation and monitoring compliance to financial commitments; developing and implementing ad hoc reports that capture workflows and developing strategies to achieve performance targets; developing and guiding short- and long-term operational initiatives, and managing program, services, and/or systems; assuming accountability for activities across functions including workplace and patient safety, human resources (e.g., recruitment, selection, promoting active recruitment, performance evaluation and management), labor relations, training and development, and quality/risk management issues; designing continuous survey readiness activities including mock rounds and mitigating issues to maintain compliance and regulatory standards, and developing procedures for preparing audit documentation, information, and reports; and leading in the development, monitoring, and control of departmental payroll and non-payroll budget and other aspects of financial management and cost control/reduction.</li><li>Manages care delivery operations and programs within a twenty-four-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week operational environment by: developing strategic partnerships with physicians, subject matter experts, and service area leaders, and overseeing highly complex work steams with large program impact; leading the development and implementation of plans, policies, and processes for data-gathering and analysis while ensuring alignment with guidelines and regulations; aligning direct and/or indirect patient care management solutions across departments; managing resources in hospital areas to ensure appropriate assignment and utilization; leading multidisciplinary hospital team(s) and holding team(s) accountable for performance; assisting the design of emergency preparedness programs; ensuring the departments emergency preparedness and recovery plans are current, ensuring managers and staff are trained and understand expectations for during and after an emergency; leading project teams and/or initiatives and monitoring implementation, equitable distribution of resources, and delivery on objectives; and leading teams responsible for the delivery of nursing services and patient care within a twenty-four-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week operational environment in alignment with cost, quality, and clinical and utilization standards.</li><li>Manages improvements to operations and technology processes by: leading and implementing long-term cross-functional strategic projects designed to achieve goals related to issue remediation and improved quality, service, affordability, and/or operating efficiency; developing and managing a structured approach for identifying root causes and implementing solutions to improve the performance of operations system processes and address quality and safety issues; collaborating with senior leadership on the development of strategic plans with the goal of achieving integrated services across the continuum of care; and ensuring performance metrics used to monitor the success of strategic improvement projects are tied to strategic organizational initiatives.</li><li>Ensures safe, quality, and standardized care delivery within a twenty-four-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week operational environment by: driving the continuous improvement of the quality and safety of clinical practices, services, and operations for patients and staff; holding staff and direct reports accountable for maintaining compliance with legal and regulatory requirements (e.g., Nursing Practice Act, The Joint Commission [TJC], federal, state, and local requirements) updated by governmental and regulatory agencies; and leading the design and implementation of systems, processes, and methods to evaluate and improve patient care within assigned department and across the continuum of care.</li></ul><br/><div> <b>Minimum Qualifications:</b></div> <br/><ul style="margin-top: 0;margin-left: 1px;margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Minimum five (5) years of experience in patient care delivery.</li><li>Bachelors degree in Nursing (BSN) AND minimum five (5) years of experience in business operations, clinical health care, or a directly related field.</li><li>Minimum four (4) years of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul style="margin-top: 0;margin-left: 1px;margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Basic Life Support required at hire</li></ul><ul style="margin-top: 0;margin-left: 1px;margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Registered Nurse License (California) required at hire</li></ul> <br/></body>

Nurse Manager II - Emergency Department Job Summary: In addition to the responsibilities below, this position is also responsible for leading the implementation of best practice models; leading the implementation of patient care delivery systems and practice standards in several locations; delegating tasks related to the investigation and resolution of patient/family/member concerns regarding patient care and services; facilitating collaboration with physicians, outside healthcare providers, and other health care team members to achieve optimal and safe patient care across the continuum; proactively monitoring resource needs in several clinical areas to ensure appropriate assignment and utilization; managing the use and maintenance of equipment, supplies and medications; ensuring a safe environment for patients and employees; maintaining clinical expertise, providing clinical supervision, competency and licensing necessary to fulfill job responsibilities and to direct the provision of care in the unit; delegating tasks and duties that are aligned to scope of practice; and performing clinical duties as required. Collaborates with Nursing Clinical Practice to ensure assistants and staff provide the highest quality of care and are in compliance with the Nursing Practice Act, The Joint Commission, federal, state, and local requirements. Note: Depending on assignment, this position may require technical or supervisory experience in one or more specialty areas, including but not limited to Operating Room/Procedure Suite, Emergency Services, Critical Care, Maternal Child Health, etc.Essential Responsibilities: Creates and advocates for developmental opportunities for others; builds collaborative, cross-functional relationships. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; works with leaders and employees to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to drive performance improvement. Pursues professional growth; hires, trains, and develops talent for growth opportunities; strategically evaluates talent for succession planning; sets performance management guidelines and expectations across teams / units. Oversees implementation, adapts, and stays up to date with organizational change, challenges, feedback, best practices, processes, and industry trends; shares best practices within and across teams. Fosters open dialogue amongst team members, engages, motivates, and promotes collaboration within and across teams; motivates teams to meet business objectives. Delegates tasks and decisions as appropriate; provides appropriate support, guidance and scope; encourages development and consideration of options in decision making; fosters access to stakeholders.Manages designated units or teams by translating business plans into tactical action items; oversees the completion of work assignments and identifies opportunities for improvement; ensures all policies and procedures are followed; partners with key stakeholders and business leaders to ensure products and/or services meet requirements and expectations while aligning with departmental strategies. Aligns team efforts; builds accountability for and measuring progress in achieving results; assumes responsibility for decision making; fosters direct reports to resolve escalated issues as appropriate. Communicates goals and objectives; incorporates resources, costs, and forecasts into team and unit plans; ensures matrixed resources are fulfilling service or performance requirements across reporting lines. Removes obstacles that impact performance; identifies and addresses improvement opportunities; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; influences teams and units to operate in alignment with operational and business objectives.Manages hospital administrative functions to support patient care by: negotiating timelines for action item implementation and monitoring compliance to financial commitments; developing and implementing ad hoc reports that capture workflows and developing strategies to achieve performance targets; developing and guiding short- and long-term operational initiatives, and managing program, services, and/or systems; assuming accountability for activities across functions including workplace and patient safety, human resources (e.g., recruitment, selection, promoting active recruitment, performance evaluation and management), labor relations, training and development, and quality/risk management issues; designing continuous survey readiness activities including mock rounds and mitigating issues to maintain compliance and regulatory standards, and developing procedures for preparing audit documentation, information, and reports; and leading in the development, monitoring, and control of departmental payroll and non-payroll budget and other aspects of financial management and cost control/reduction.Manages care delivery operations and programs within a twenty-four-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week operational environment by: developing strategic partnerships with physicians, subject matter experts, and service area leaders, and overseeing highly complex work steams with large program impact; leading the development and implementation of plans, policies, and processes for data-gathering and analysis while ensuring alignment with guidelines and regulations; aligning direct and/or indirect patient care management solutions across departments; managing resources in hospital areas to ensure appropriate assignment and utilization; leading multidisciplinary hospital team(s) and holding team(s) accountable for performance; assisting the design of emergency preparedness programs; ensuring the departments emergency preparedness and recovery plans are current, ensuring managers and staff are trained and understand expectations for during and after an emergency; leading project teams and/or initiatives and monitoring implementation, equitable distribution of resources, and delivery on objectives; and leading teams responsible for the delivery of nursing services and patient care within a twenty-four-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week operational environment in alignment with cost, quality, and clinical and utilization standards.Manages improvements to operations and technology processes by: leading and implementing long-term cross-functional strategic projects designed to achieve goals related to issue remediation and improved quality, service, affordability, and/or operating efficiency; developing and managing a structured approach for identifying root causes and implementing solutions to improve the performance of operations system processes and address quality and safety issues; collaborating with senior leadership on the development of strategic plans with the goal of achieving integrated services across the continuum of care; and ensuring performance metrics used to monitor the success of strategic improvement projects are tied to strategic organizational initiatives.Ensures safe, quality, and standardized care delivery within a twenty-four-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week operational environment by: driving the continuous improvement of the quality and safety of clinical practices, services, and operations for patients and staff; holding staff and direct reports accountable for maintaining compliance with legal and regulatory requirements (e.g., Nursing Practice Act, The Joint Commission [TJC], federal, state, and local requirements) updated by governmental and regulatory agencies; and leading the design and implementation of systems, processes, and methods to evaluate and improve patient care within assigned department and across the continuum of care. Minimum Qualifications: Minimum five (5) years of experience in patient care delivery.Bachelors degree in Nursing (BSN) AND minimum five (5) years of experience in business operations, clinical health care, or a directly related field.Minimum four (4) years of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.Basic Life Support required at hireRegistered Nurse License (California) required at hire 

<body><h3>Staff Nurse II - Redwood City Hospital - Dermatology - FT Day</h3><br/><div> <b>Job Summary:</b></div> <br/>The Registered Nurse (RN) II is a professional caregiver who assumes responsibility and accountability for a group of patients for a designated time frame. The RN II provides care to patients via the therapeutic use of self, the nursing process, the environment and instrumentation, and other health care team members.<br/><div><b>Essential Responsibilities:</b></div> <br/><ul style="margin-top: 0;margin-left: 1px;margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Performs assessment/data collection in an on-going systematic manner, focusing on physiologic, psychosocial, cultural, spiritual and cognitive status; also nutrition, pain, patient/family education, family involvement and patient advocacy.</li><br/><li>Formulates a goal-directed plan of care when and where appropriate to do so.</li><br/><li>Implements care in a thorough, skillful, consistent, and continuous manner.</li><br/><li>Establishes priorities or patient care based on essential patient needs and available unit resources of time, personnel, equipment, and supplies.</li><br/><li>Identifies patient/family learning needs and acts to meet them.</li><br/><li>Demonstrates an awareness of and sensitivity to patient/family rights, age specific needs, cultural and ethical beliefs.</li><br/><li>Provides/coordinates care for patients/patient populations.</li><br/><li>Establishes effective working relationships with members of the health care team, patients, and families.</li><br/><li>Acknowledges staff rights and cultural and ethical beliefs.</li><br/><li>Delegates appropriately and coordinates duties of health care team members.</li><br/><li>Evaluates effectiveness of care given by health care team members.</li><br/><li>Utilizes effective communication methods and skills, following lines of authority, as appropriate.</li><br/><li>Demonstrates knowledge of and applies safety principles as identified within the institution.</li><br/><li>Performs efficiently in emergency patient care situations following established protocols, remaining calm, informing appropriate persons, and documenting events.</li><br/><li>Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for own professional practice.</li><br/><li>Participates regularly in staff development activities for unit and department personnel.</li><br/><li>Demonstrates knowledge of legal issues, including patient confidentiality and risk management in all aspects of patient care and unit functioning.</li><br/><li>Participates in unit and Department Performance Improvement activities as directed.</li><br/><li>Participates in nursing research activities as requested.</li><br/><li>Identifies and solves problems effectively.</li><br/><li>Demonstrates a service philosophy in all interactions with patients, families, and all members of the health care team.</li><br/><li>Provides data for staffing decisions and demonstrates flexibility in the resolution of staffing issues; demonstrates flexibility when floating to other units upon requests.</li><br/><li>Demonstrates proficiency in the use of computers and telecommunication modalities in documenting, tracking and conveying information. Ability to navigate in a windows environment, utilizing a mouse and the ability to learn electronic medical record system application.</li><br/><li>Perform other related duties as necessary.</li></ul><br/><br/>If practicing in a specialty/extended role, fulfills the expectations established for the particular role.<br/><br/><br/><br/>SPECIALITY AREAS<br/><br/><br/><br/>If no qualified candidate, will be willing to train. Where indicated, candidates in training are required to obtain appropriate certification(s) within the designated timeframe for a particular field of practice.<br/><br/><div> <b>Basic Qualifications:</b></div> <div> <u>Experience</u></div> <br/>1 year recent (within the last 3 years) experience in dermatology practice.<br/><div> <u>Education</u></div> <br/><ul style="margin-top: 0;margin-left: 1px;margin-bottom: 0;"><li>High School Diploma/GED</li><li>Graduate of an accredited registered nursing program and completion of the current hours required by the BRN of RN student clinical experience; OR Graduate of registered nursing program and either: 1) 2000 hours of RN experience in clinical area of specialty from a licensed acute care facility within three (3) years of graduation; or 2) graduate of an accredited licensed vocational nursing program that includes clinical student experience in acute care and has worked 2000 hours as a licensed vocational nurse within the clinical area of specialty within three (3) years before graduation</li></ul> <br/><div> <u>License, Certification, Registration</u></div> <ul style="margin-top: 0;margin-left: 1px;margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Registered Nurse License (California)</li></ul><ul style="margin-top: 0;margin-left: 1px;margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Basic Life Support</li></ul><br/><div><b>Additional Requirements:</b></div><ul style="margin-top: 0;margin-left: 1px;margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Demonstrated knowledge of the RN scope of practice</li><li>Demonstrated commitment to service orientation (members, staff, providers)</li><li>Demonstrated effective written and oral communication skills (in English)</li><li>Good interpersonal skills</li><li>Also refer to Position Specifications outlined in the appropriate collective bargaining agreement.</li></ul> <br/><div> <b>Preferred Qualifications:</b></div> <br/><ul style="margin-top: 0;margin-left: 1px;margin-bottom: 0;"></ul> <br/></body>

Staff Nurse II - Redwood City Hospital - Dermatology - FT Day Job Summary: The Registered Nurse (RN) II is a professional caregiver who assumes responsibility and accountability for a group of patients for a designated time frame. The RN II provides care to patients via the therapeutic use of self, the nursing process, the environment and instrumentation, and other health care team members.Essential Responsibilities: Performs assessment/data collection in an on-going systematic manner, focusing on physiologic, psychosocial, cultural, spiritual and cognitive status; also nutrition, pain, patient/family education, family involvement and patient advocacy.Formulates a goal-directed plan of care when and where appropriate to do so.Implements care in a thorough, skillful, consistent, and continuous manner.Establishes priorities or patient care based on essential patient needs and available unit resources of time, personnel, equipment, and supplies.Identifies patient/family learning needs and acts to meet them.Demonstrates an awareness of and sensitivity to patient/family rights, age specific needs, cultural and ethical beliefs.Provides/coordinates care for patients/patient populations.Establishes effective working relationships with members of the health care team, patients, and families.Acknowledges staff rights and cultural and ethical beliefs.Delegates appropriately and coordinates duties of health care team members.Evaluates effectiveness of care given by health care team members.Utilizes effective communication methods and skills, following lines of authority, as appropriate.Demonstrates knowledge of and applies safety principles as identified within the institution.Performs efficiently in emergency patient care situations following established protocols, remaining calm, informing appropriate persons, and documenting events.Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for own professional practice.Participates regularly in staff development activities for unit and department personnel.Demonstrates knowledge of legal issues, including patient confidentiality and risk management in all aspects of patient care and unit functioning.Participates in unit and Department Performance Improvement activities as directed.Participates in nursing research activities as requested.Identifies and solves problems effectively.Demonstrates a service philosophy in all interactions with patients, families, and all members of the health care team.Provides data for staffing decisions and demonstrates flexibility in the resolution of staffing issues; demonstrates flexibility when floating to other units upon requests.Demonstrates proficiency in the use of computers and telecommunication modalities in documenting, tracking and conveying information. Ability to navigate in a windows environment, utilizing a mouse and the ability to learn electronic medical record system application.Perform other related duties as necessary.If practicing in a specialty/extended role, fulfills the expectations established for the particular role.SPECIALITY AREASIf no qualified candidate, will be willing to train. Where indicated, candidates in training are required to obtain appropriate certification(s) within the designated timeframe for a particular field of practice. Basic Qualifications: Experience 1 year recent (within the last 3 years) experience in dermatology practice. Education High School Diploma/GEDGraduate of an accredited registered nursing program and completion of the current hours required by the BRN of RN student clinical experience; OR Graduate of registered nursing program and either: 1) 2000 hours of RN experience in clinical area of specialty from a licensed acute care facility within three (3) years of graduation; or 2) graduate of an accredited licensed vocational nursing program that includes clinical student experience in acute care and has worked 2000 hours as a licensed vocational nurse within the clinical area of specialty within three (3) years before graduation License, Certification, Registration Registered Nurse License (California)Basic Life SupportAdditional Requirements:Demonstrated knowledge of the RN scope of practiceDemonstrated commitment to service orientation (members, staff, providers)Demonstrated effective written and oral communication skills (in English)Good interpersonal skillsAlso refer to Position Specifications outlined in the appropriate collective bargaining agreement. Preferred Qualifications: 

<body><h3>Nurse Manager II, Palliative Care</h3><br/><div> <b>Job Summary:</b></div> <br/>In addition to the responsibilities below, this position is also responsible for leading the implementation of best practice models; leading the implementation of patient care delivery systems and practice standards in several locations; delegating tasks related to the investigation and resolution of patient/family/member concerns regarding patient care and services; facilitating collaboration with physicians, outside healthcare providers, and other health care team members to achieve optimal and safe patient care across the continuum; proactively monitoring resource needs in several clinical areas to ensure appropriate assignment and utilization; managing the use and maintenance of equipment, supplies and medications; ensuring a safe environment for patients and employees; maintaining clinical expertise, providing clinical supervision, competency and licensing necessary to fulfill job responsibilities and to direct the provision of care in the unit; delegating tasks and duties that are aligned to scope of practice; and performing clinical duties as required. Collaborates with Nursing Clinical Practice to ensure assistants and staff provide the highest quality of care and are in compliance with the Nursing Practice Act, The Joint Commission, federal, state, and local requirements.  Note: Depending on assignment, this position may require technical or supervisory experience in one or more specialty areas, including but not limited to Operating Room/Procedure Suite, Emergency Services, Critical Care, Maternal Child Health, etc.<br/><div><b>Essential Responsibilities:</b></div> <br/><ul style="margin-top: 0;margin-left: 1px;margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Creates and advocates for developmental opportunities for others; builds collaborative, cross-functional relationships. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; works with leaders and employees to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to drive performance improvement. Pursues professional growth; hires, trains, and develops talent for growth opportunities; strategically evaluates talent for succession planning; sets performance management guidelines and expectations across teams / units. Oversees implementation, adapts, and stays up to date with organizational change, challenges, feedback, best practices, processes, and industry trends; shares best practices within and across teams. Fosters open dialogue amongst team members, engages, motivates, and promotes collaboration within and across teams; motivates teams to meet business objectives. Delegates tasks and decisions as appropriate; provides appropriate support, guidance and scope; encourages development and consideration of options in decision making; fosters access to stakeholders.</li><li>Manages designated units or teams by translating business plans into tactical action items; oversees the completion of work assignments and identifies opportunities for improvement; ensures all policies and procedures are followed; partners with key stakeholders and business leaders to ensure products and/or services meet requirements and expectations while aligning with departmental strategies. Aligns team efforts; builds accountability for and measuring progress in achieving results; assumes responsibility for decision making; fosters direct reports to resolve escalated issues as appropriate. Communicates goals and objectives; incorporates resources, costs, and forecasts into team and unit plans; ensures matrixed resources are fulfilling service or performance requirements across reporting lines. Removes obstacles that impact performance; identifies and addresses improvement opportunities; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; influences teams and units to operate in alignment with operational and business objectives.</li><li>Manages hospital administrative functions to support patient care by: negotiating timelines for action item implementation and monitoring compliance to financial commitments; developing and implementing ad hoc reports that capture workflows and developing strategies to achieve performance targets; developing and guiding short- and long-term operational initiatives, and managing program, services, and/or systems; assuming accountability for activities across functions including workplace and patient safety, human resources (e.g., recruitment, selection, promoting active recruitment, performance evaluation and management), labor relations, training and development, and quality/risk management issues; designing continuous survey readiness activities including mock rounds and mitigating issues to maintain compliance and regulatory standards, and developing procedures for preparing audit documentation, information, and reports; and leading in the development, monitoring, and control of departmental payroll and non-payroll budget and other aspects of financial management and cost control/reduction.</li><li>Manages care delivery operations and programs within a twenty-four-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week operational environment by: developing strategic partnerships with physicians, subject matter experts, and service area leaders, and overseeing highly complex work steams with large program impact; leading the development and implementation of plans, policies, and processes for data-gathering and analysis while ensuring alignment with guidelines and regulations; aligning direct and/or indirect patient care management solutions across departments; managing resources in hospital areas to ensure appropriate assignment and utilization; leading multidisciplinary hospital team(s) and holding team(s) accountable for performance; assisting the design of emergency preparedness programs; ensuring the departments emergency preparedness and recovery plans are current, ensuring managers and staff are trained and understand expectations for during and after an emergency; leading project teams and/or initiatives and monitoring implementation, equitable distribution of resources, and delivery on objectives; and leading teams responsible for the delivery of nursing services and patient care within a twenty-four-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week operational environment in alignment with cost, quality, and clinical and utilization standards.</li><li>Manages improvements to operations and technology processes by: leading and implementing long-term cross-functional strategic projects designed to achieve goals related to issue remediation and improved quality, service, affordability, and/or operating efficiency; developing and managing a structured approach for identifying root causes and implementing solutions to improve the performance of operations system processes and address quality and safety issues; collaborating with senior leadership on the development of strategic plans with the goal of achieving integrated services across the continuum of care; and ensuring performance metrics used to monitor the success of strategic improvement projects are tied to strategic organizational initiatives.</li><li>Ensures safe, quality, and standardized care delivery within a twenty-four-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week operational environment by: driving the continuous improvement of the quality and safety of clinical practices, services, and operations for patients and staff; holding staff and direct reports accountable for maintaining compliance with legal and regulatory requirements (e.g., Nursing Practice Act, The Joint Commission [TJC], federal, state, and local requirements) updated by governmental and regulatory agencies; and leading the design and implementation of systems, processes, and methods to evaluate and improve patient care within assigned department and across the continuum of care.</li></ul><br/><div> <b>Minimum Qualifications:</b></div> <br/><ul style="margin-top: 0;margin-left: 1px;margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Minimum five (5) years of experience in patient care delivery.</li><li>Bachelors degree in Nursing (BSN) AND minimum five (5) years of experience in business operations, clinical health care, or a directly related field.</li><li>Minimum four (4) years of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul style="margin-top: 0;margin-left: 1px;margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Basic Life Support required at hire</li></ul><ul style="margin-top: 0;margin-left: 1px;margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Registered Nurse License (California) required at hire</li></ul> <br/></body>

Nurse Manager II, Palliative Care Job Summary: In addition to the responsibilities below, this position is also responsible for leading the implementation of best practice models; leading the implementation of patient care delivery systems and practice standards in several locations; delegating tasks related to the investigation and resolution of patient/family/member concerns regarding patient care and services; facilitating collaboration with physicians, outside healthcare providers, and other health care team members to achieve optimal and safe patient care across the continuum; proactively monitoring resource needs in several clinical areas to ensure appropriate assignment and utilization; managing the use and maintenance of equipment, supplies and medications; ensuring a safe environment for patients and employees; maintaining clinical expertise, providing clinical supervision, competency and licensing necessary to fulfill job responsibilities and to direct the provision of care in the unit; delegating tasks and duties that are aligned to scope of practice; and performing clinical duties as required. Collaborates with Nursing Clinical Practice to ensure assistants and staff provide the highest quality of care and are in compliance with the Nursing Practice Act, The Joint Commission, federal, state, and local requirements. Note: Depending on assignment, this position may require technical or supervisory experience in one or more specialty areas, including but not limited to Operating Room/Procedure Suite, Emergency Services, Critical Care, Maternal Child Health, etc.Essential Responsibilities: Creates and advocates for developmental opportunities for others; builds collaborative, cross-functional relationships. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; works with leaders and employees to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to drive performance improvement. Pursues professional growth; hires, trains, and develops talent for growth opportunities; strategically evaluates talent for succession planning; sets performance management guidelines and expectations across teams / units. Oversees implementation, adapts, and stays up to date with organizational change, challenges, feedback, best practices, processes, and industry trends; shares best practices within and across teams. Fosters open dialogue amongst team members, engages, motivates, and promotes collaboration within and across teams; motivates teams to meet business objectives. Delegates tasks and decisions as appropriate; provides appropriate support, guidance and scope; encourages development and consideration of options in decision making; fosters access to stakeholders.Manages designated units or teams by translating business plans into tactical action items; oversees the completion of work assignments and identifies opportunities for improvement; ensures all policies and procedures are followed; partners with key stakeholders and business leaders to ensure products and/or services meet requirements and expectations while aligning with departmental strategies. Aligns team efforts; builds accountability for and measuring progress in achieving results; assumes responsibility for decision making; fosters direct reports to resolve escalated issues as appropriate. Communicates goals and objectives; incorporates resources, costs, and forecasts into team and unit plans; ensures matrixed resources are fulfilling service or performance requirements across reporting lines. Removes obstacles that impact performance; identifies and addresses improvement opportunities; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; influences teams and units to operate in alignment with operational and business objectives.Manages hospital administrative functions to support patient care by: negotiating timelines for action item implementation and monitoring compliance to financial commitments; developing and implementing ad hoc reports that capture workflows and developing strategies to achieve performance targets; developing and guiding short- and long-term operational initiatives, and managing program, services, and/or systems; assuming accountability for activities across functions including workplace and patient safety, human resources (e.g., recruitment, selection, promoting active recruitment, performance evaluation and management), labor relations, training and development, and quality/risk management issues; designing continuous survey readiness activities including mock rounds and mitigating issues to maintain compliance and regulatory standards, and developing procedures for preparing audit documentation, information, and reports; and leading in the development, monitoring, and control of departmental payroll and non-payroll budget and other aspects of financial management and cost control/reduction.Manages care delivery operations and programs within a twenty-four-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week operational environment by: developing strategic partnerships with physicians, subject matter experts, and service area leaders, and overseeing highly complex work steams with large program impact; leading the development and implementation of plans, policies, and processes for data-gathering and analysis while ensuring alignment with guidelines and regulations; aligning direct and/or indirect patient care management solutions across departments; managing resources in hospital areas to ensure appropriate assignment and utilization; leading multidisciplinary hospital team(s) and holding team(s) accountable for performance; assisting the design of emergency preparedness programs; ensuring the departments emergency preparedness and recovery plans are current, ensuring managers and staff are trained and understand expectations for during and after an emergency; leading project teams and/or initiatives and monitoring implementation, equitable distribution of resources, and delivery on objectives; and leading teams responsible for the delivery of nursing services and patient care within a twenty-four-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week operational environment in alignment with cost, quality, and clinical and utilization standards.Manages improvements to operations and technology processes by: leading and implementing long-term cross-functional strategic projects designed to achieve goals related to issue remediation and improved quality, service, affordability, and/or operating efficiency; developing and managing a structured approach for identifying root causes and implementing solutions to improve the performance of operations system processes and address quality and safety issues; collaborating with senior leadership on the development of strategic plans with the goal of achieving integrated services across the continuum of care; and ensuring performance metrics used to monitor the success of strategic improvement projects are tied to strategic organizational initiatives.Ensures safe, quality, and standardized care delivery within a twenty-four-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week operational environment by: driving the continuous improvement of the quality and safety of clinical practices, services, and operations for patients and staff; holding staff and direct reports accountable for maintaining compliance with legal and regulatory requirements (e.g., Nursing Practice Act, The Joint Commission [TJC], federal, state, and local requirements) updated by governmental and regulatory agencies; and leading the design and implementation of systems, processes, and methods to evaluate and improve patient care within assigned department and across the continuum of care. Minimum Qualifications: Minimum five (5) years of experience in patient care delivery.Bachelors degree in Nursing (BSN) AND minimum five (5) years of experience in business operations, clinical health care, or a directly related field.Minimum four (4) years of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.Basic Life Support required at hireRegistered Nurse License (California) required at hire 

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