Employment Type:

Full time

Shift:

Description:

The Clinical Coordinator is a dynamic leadership role that contributes to the operational management of the surgical service to promote and support an environment of excellent patient care.

An individual in this role ensures compliance with all healthcare standards and requirements established by various licensing, regulatory, and accreditation bodies. They maintain working knowledge of policies and procedures in order to ensure adherence in a manner that reflects honest, ethical, and professional behavior. The coordinator provides leadership while engaging staff and promoting evidenced based practice that supports and leads the office through necessary changes to advance the organization. They will be responsible to help identify problems and offer support to eliminate barriers and issues. A candidate for this role should be comfortable with general clinical knowledge, managing staff, making decisions independently, change management, use of EMR, and assuming managerial duties.

Organization Highlights:

• Recognized Leader: First Magnet Designated Hospital in Syracuse, highlighting our professional nursing staff.

• Shared Governance: Unit practice counsel and open door guiding principle gives all our nurses a voice.

• Advancement: Strong orientation, leadership development programs and generous tuition allowance.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, coordinate, and implement staffing plans to ensure adequate care coverage.

• Evaluate retrospective, current and prospective unit productivity and adjust to reach targeted levels.

• Coordinate response to urgent/emergent situations as evidenced by reallocation of personnel and resources.

• Participate in patient care activities as needed

• Implement appropriate service recovery strategies.

• Coach, mentor and support staff.

• Collaborate with education to facilitate orientation initiatives and provide preceptor education and support.

• Participate in hiring, evaluating, initiating corrective action and terminating employees as needed.

• Educate team members in theoretical and clinical competencies associated with care delivery of the OR.

• Collaborate with leadership to provide formal feedback through performance development process.

• Collaborate with leadership to achieve unit and organizational quality improvement and outcome based initiatives.

• Work closely with surgical services team to include offices, main operating room and ambulatory surgery centers to optimize the periop patient experience.

• Will help implement new technologies and work toward standardization of workflows.

• Proficient in Microsoft Applications.

Career Path:

• Career advancement to senior leadership roles such as Manager, Director or Administrative roles.

Mission Statement:

• We, St Joseph's Health and Trinity Health, serve together in the spirit of the Gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.

Vision:

• To be world-renowned for passionate patient care and outstanding clinical outcomes.

Core Values:

• In the spirit of good Stewardship, we heal by practicing Justice in fostering right relationships to promote common good, Reverence in honoring the dignity of every person, Excellence in expecting the best of ourselves and others; Integrity in being faithful to who we say we are.

Education, Training, Experience, Certification and Licensure:

• Bachelor’s Degree strongly preferred with one to two years progressive experience in the healthcare field. Advanced degree is a plus/requirement, depending on specific service needs and/or requirements. Ideally the candidate will have some supervisory experience, not required however.

• Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing and current licensure as a Registered Nurse in New York State.

• Participates in orientation and continuing education and updates and maintains knowledge and skills related to specific areas of expertise. Completes population specific competency annually on populations served as identified in scope of care and services.

• Maintain BLS/CPR certification. Maintain other certifications appropriate to field.

Work Environment and Hazards:

• Clinical setting. Exposure Class I

Physical Demands:

• Medium work: must be able to lift 25 pounds frequently; occasionally lifting maximum of 50 pounds. Will require ability to stand, walk, sit, bend, twist, squat and reach.

Work Contact Group:

• All services, medical staff, patients, visitors, and various regulatory and professional agencies.

Supervised By:

• Surgical Services Manager and Director.

Pay Range: $38.80 - $55.60

Pay is based on experience, skills, and education. Exempt positions under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) will be paid within the base salary equivalent of the stated hourly rates. The pay range may also vary within the stated range based on location

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Trinity Health is one of the largest not-for-profit, Catholic healthcare systems in the nation. Built on the foundation of our Mission and Core Values, we integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion in all that we do. Our colleagues have different lived experiences, customs, abilities, and talents. Together, we become our best selves. A diverse and inclusive workforce provides the most accessible and equitable care for those we serve. Trinity Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other status protected by law.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Trinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.

Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.

EOE including disability/veteran