APP Team Manager

This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities as necessary.

CORE QUALIFICATIONS

• Graduate of master’s in science in Nursing with approved APRN Curriculum or higher or graduate of 
• Master of Science in Physician Assistant degree.
• Florida Licensure as APRN from Florida Board of Nursing.
• Board Certification as APRN from nationally accredited organization such as American Nurses Credentialing 
• Center (ANCC) or American Academy of Nurse Practitioner (AANP) or Board certification as a AP from a 
• National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA).
• Current Certification in BLS and ACLS
• CITI certification within three months of employment
• ONS Chemotherapy Immunotherapy certification upon hire or during orientation and renewed every two years
• AOCNP certification after a year of employment in oncology service line

Experience:

• Minimum of 3-5 years of relevant experience

Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes:

• Ability to handle difficult and stressful situations with professional composure.

• Ability to maintain effective interpersonal relationships.

• Ability to analyze, consolidate, and interpret accounting data.

• Ability to compile, organize, interpret, and communicate accounting data and results concisely.

• Ability to manage a budget and work within the constraints of that budget.

Department Specific Functions

Advanced Practice (50%)

• Oversight of APPs within various oncology programs
  • Track metrics related to volume and provide feedback to Executive leadership when resources identified are 
  needed. 
  • Act as a liaison between physician leaders, clinical teams, departments, and divisions.
  • Serves as a mentor and role model to all APPs, thus facilitating the development from novice to expert.
  • Serves as a liaison and advocate between the APP and hospital leadership, department heads, and collaborating 
  physicians.
  • Assist APPs in clinical integration upon hire and throughout time of employment.
  • Identifies APP learning needs and provides learning experiences to meet those needs.
  • Integrates and informs APP of current knowledge of professional issues, trends in health care and technological 
  advances into APPs scope of practice.
  • Teaches/lectures in continuing education programs, journal clubs, conferences, and provides APPs opportunities 
  for learning.
  • Participates in and or coordinates community education programs.
  • Coordinates assignments of preceptors to advanced practice providers. Provides coordination of APP students 
  with university liaisons.
  • Identifies opportunities and challenges to promote full scope of practice in the advanced practice model.
  • Ensures and coordinates standardization of advanced practice processes between patient care services and 
  collaborative teams.
  • Ensures compliance with regulatory and maintains credentialing, competencies, and professional standards for 
  all APPs in the service line.
  • Provides coordination of coverage during weekdays and weekends between satellites, hospitals, and outpatient 
  areas, as needed.
  • Evaluates and approves APPs time-off requests per university policy and procedures.
  • Leads an entity committee and Co-leads collaborative team in developing a new service or strategic 
  performance improvement.
  • Engages and empowers staff by sharing decision-making, delegating, providing choice and fostering autonomy 
  and adaptability.
  • Contributes to the design, development, and implementation of strategic and operational initiatives.
  • Prioritizes competing demands while integrating strategic plan into daily operations.
  • Leads and supports APP staff during periods of transition; communicates purpose and empowers staff to 
  embrace change.
  UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
  Core APP Team Manager
  • Leads staff during the implementation and evaluation of new initiatives at the unit, division and department 
  level.
  • Recruits, hires, and facilitates training and orientation. Manages, recognizes, and rewards performance. Provides 
  ongoing formal and informal performance feedback.
  • Cultivates a climate of professional growth and development to promote excellence, retain talent and develop 
  future leaders.
  • Initiates and/or participates in unit and/or hospital research activities.
  • Utilizes research findings and nursing theory in clinical practice. Promotes evidence-based/knowledge-based
  nursing practice.
  • Collects data for patient and program evaluation and participates in quality assessment and 
  improvement/patient experience activities.

Administrative Duties (50%)

Clinical Operations:
• Improve the clinical operations and patient experience by coordinating efforts to deliver a plan of care that
addresses the medical, surgical, emotional, physical, educational, short, and long-term needs of individual and
family's needs in a setting of expertise, warmth, and compassion.
• Monitor national "best practices" and integrates into current practice.
• Examine operational gaps and formulate a plan to close the gaps by defining objectives, implement and track 
timelines, establish new program roll out to staff and patients while gauging anticipated outcomes and
• evaluating process.
• Works collaboratively with SCCC Executive & Nursing Leadership to develop and implement clinic flow 
parameters, including benchmarks and dashboards for patient flow through their visits, and processes for 
proactively managing.
• Cross covers for other APPs or APP Supervisors when needed. 
• Draft Policies and Procedures for new initiatives as needed and update existing policies.
• Provide senior management with necessary updates on progress and changes in scope, schedule, and resources 
in a timely manner.
• Operates within budget guidelines under the supervision of Executive Leadership.
• Collaborates with Nursing and system leadership on meeting and maintaining accreditation standards.

This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities as necessary.

Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes:
• Ability to handle difficult and stressful situations with professional composure.
• Ability to maintain effective interpersonal relationships.
• Ability to analyze, consolidate, and interpret accounting data.
• Ability to compile, organize, interpret, and communicate accounting data and results concisely.
• Ability to manage a budget and work within the constraints of that budget.