Manager – Nursing

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 The University of Miami/UHealth Department of OBGYN has an exciting opportunity for a full-time Manager, Nursing to work in Miami, FL. The Manager, Nursing promotes and restores patients' health by developing day-to-day management and long-term planning of the patient care area, directing and developing staff, collaborating with physicians and multi-disciplinary professional staffs, and providing physical and psychological support for patients and their friends and families. This employee enforces professional staff behaviors that facilitate positive relationships among colleagues, physicians, administrators, and other hospital personnel.

CORE JOB FUNCTIONS                                                                                            

• Oversees patient flow through designated clinical areas.

• Maintains nursing guidelines by writing and updating policies and procedures.

• Maintains nursing operations by initiating, coordinating, and enforcing program, operational, and personnel policies and procedures.

• Assures quality of care by developing and interpreting hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care, enforcing adherence to state board of nursing and state nurse practice act requirements, and to other governing agency regulations, and measuring health outcomes against standards.

• Maintains nursing staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training nurses and auxiliary staff.

• Completes patient care requirements by assigning nursing and staff.

• Maintains nursing staff job results by coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees.

• Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients and their friends and families.

• Promotes patients’ independence by establishing patient care goals, teaching and counseling patients, and reinforcing patients’ understanding of disease, medications, and self-care.

• Resolves patient needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies.

• Maintains a safe and clean working environment by designing and implementing related procedures, rules, and regulations.

• Accounts for the collection of data to ensure performance improvement and optimal customer service standards.  

• Assures all staff meet mandatory continuing education requirements and yearly hospital based competencies

• Provides insight on the unit(s) operations to nursing leadership to assist in the development of strategic planning and departmental expansion.

• Establishes and continuously assesses the effectiveness of the internal controls within the unit and compliance with University policies and procedures.  Ensures employees are trained on controls within the function and on University policy and procedures.

DEPARTMENT SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS          

Clinical Management:

• Responsible for the management of the daily operation for patient care, compliance with nursing standards, patient satisfaction and clinical performance improvement.

• Responsible for patient flow throughout designated clinical areas.  Identifies patient flow barriers both internal and external to the clinical operation and provides and/or implement improvement solutions.

• Responsible for assuring patient care is delivered in alignment with UHealth clinical enterprise mission, and department nursing goals and objectives.

• Responsible for ensuring Clinical sites are adequately staffed and personnel are appropriately trained for their given assignments in order to provide safe, quality care.

• Responsible for assuring staff compliance with mandatory education, licensure requirements, continuing education, and applicable certifications and professional practice standards.

• Responsible for the utilization and maintenance of appropriate nursing care plans and assessment standards.

• Responsible for assuring Clinical sites are prepared for Joint Commission surveys and inspections from regulatory agencies.

• Responsible for the collection of data to ensure performance improvement and optimal customer service standards. 

• Coordinates with Administration the management of personnel to include recruitment, retention, employee incentive and evaluation and disciplinary actions.

• Provides insight on Clinical site operations to leadership to assist in development of strategic planning and departmental expansion.

• Assists with the development/revision and review of clinical policies and procedures.

• Will assist providers with direct patient care and phone triage duties whenever staffing needs arises.

Financial Management:

• Assist with capital and operational budget planning and budgetary compliance for the Practice sites.

• Assist with timely and accurate data collection of patient volumes, unit expenses, unit revenue, performance improvement information, patient satisfaction and other pertinent information that demonstrates operations of the Clinical sites.

• Provides timely reports, as requested on data collected

• Tracking of clinical practice site operational expenses

• Maintains appropriate records of employee attendance, tardiness and non-productive time such as sick and vacation time, administrative leave and leave of absences

• Maintains records and systematic management of inventory such as biomedical equipment, capital equipment, supplies and miscellaneous computer hardware

• Oversees maintenance of medical supplies, equipment repair and pharmaceutical stock.

Staff Competency, Education, and Performance Evaluation:

• Assures all staff meet mandatory continuing education requirements, and yearly OBGYN specialty- based competencies.

• Formally evaluates each staff member yearly.  Maintains documentation of job performance, personnel actions, and additional professional contributions to the Clinical sites and/or Department

• Assures cross-training to other suites is documented and accurate.

• Maintains educational documentation requirements of the Department

• Provides ongoing coaching to all staff with the goal of improving critical thinking and technical skills

• Ensure staff are appropriately trained and have knowledge-base of all clinical web tools and applications necessary for the clinical job functions.

Performance Improvement:

• Assists in development and implementation of performance improvement programs in compliance with JCAHO standards and other regulatory agencies.

• Collects data to evaluate patient flow and trends.  Through data collections, identifies changing needs for internal processes, and implements change accordingly.  Collaborates with leadership for processes flow issues external to the nursing staff.

• Identifies opportunities for improved unit efficiency, patient flow, and customer service.

• Investigates clinical and practice variances and conducts follow-up action plans as appropriate.

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                                                                                                         

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field

• Registered Nurse Licensure (RN), BLS, and ACLS Provider Card.

• Minimum 3 years of relevant experience

• Ability to maintain effective interpersonal relationships

• Ability to communicate effectively in both oral and written form

• Proficiency in computer software (i.e. Microsoft Office)

• Knowledge of business and management principles

• Ability to effectively plan, delegate and/or supervise the work of others.

• Ability to lead, motivate, develop and train others.

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The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, tuition remission and more.

UHealth-University of Miami Health System, South Florida's only university-based health system, provides leading-edge patient care powered by the ground breaking research and medical education at the Miller School of Medicine. As an academic medical center, we are proud to serve South Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean. Our physicians represent more than 100 specialties and sub-specialties, and have more than one million patient encounters each year. Our tradition of excellence has earned worldwide recognition for outstanding teaching, research and patient care. We're the challenge you've been looking for.

The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on certain categories protected by Federal law.

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