Job Description

Job Description: The Nurse Clinical Leader provides leadership and clinical expertise during their shift and within their department. They manage unit resources and supervise personnel to ensure appropriate staffing levels based on the unique needs of patients on the unit, both clinically and financially. They serve as clinical support for staff and exemplify competency and professionalism.
As a part of line management, this role will have significant leadership responsibilities, including several of the following: leading change, scheduling, maintenance of staff competencies, new employee selection / orientation, constructive discipline, and completion of annual employee performance reviews. The Clinical Nurse Leader provides leadership support for professional governance.
The Clinical Nurse Leader also works in a regularly scheduled bedside RN shift with the responsibility and accountability for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating the care of patients. The RN utilizes the nursing process with technology, therapeutic intervention, evidence-based practice and coordination of care with other health team members.

You.   

You bring your body, mind, heart and spirit to your work as an Ortho/Neurosurgery Registered Nurse House Supervisor.

Your compassion is tangible: patients feel it in the hand they hold. Families feel it in your prayers. Colleagues feel it in your support. 

You’re equally comfortable with day-to-day operational leadership, quality improvement initiatives, and human resources management. 

You’re great at what you do, but you want to be part of something even greater. Because you believe that while individuals can be strong, the right team is invincible. 

Us.   

Saint Joseph Hospital is part of Intermountain Health, a faith-based, nonprofit healthcare organization that focuses on person-centered care. Our absolutely state-of-the-art OR boasts 21 surgical suites, with 2 designated for CV cases and 2 designated as hybrid rooms.  Our Main OR specialties include Bariatric, Robotics, General Surgery, Ortho, Neuro, OB-GYN and CV, including open heart cases. 

We are proud to be an accredited Chest Pain Center, a Primary Stroke Center, and a private teaching hospital. 

Benefits are one of the ways we encourage health for you and your family. Our generous package includes medical, dental and vision coverage. But health is more than a well-working body: it encompasses body, mind and social well-being. To that end, we’ve launched a Healthy Living program to address your holistic health. Healthy Living includes financial incentives, digital tools, tobacco cessation, classes, counseling and paid time off. We also offer financial wellness tools and retirement planning. 

We.   

Together we’ll align mission and careers, values and workplace. We’ll honor each other’s dignity and surpass the standards we set. We’ll encourage joy, demand safety and take pride in our integrity.

We’ll laugh at each other’s jokes (even the bad ones). We’ll hello and high five. We’ll celebrate milestones and acknowledge the value of spirituality in healing. 

We’re proud of what we know, which includes how much there is to learn.

Your day.  

As an Ortho/Neurosurgery House Supervisor you need to know how to:

• Supervise direct patient care delivery. 

• Maintain ongoing communications with physicians concerning patient care. 

• Assist the nursing management to recruit and hire nursing staff. 

• Provide supervision for assigned staff, including performance evaluations and problem solving. 

• Coordinate staffing schedules to assure adequate coverage. 

• Assure effective interactions with patients and families. 

• Assure compliance with patient rights policies and work with other staff, as needed, to resolve grievances. 

• Assist nursing personnel to act in compliance with corporate policies and procedures and regulatory requirements. 

• Monitor compliance with patient record documentation requirements, as directed. 

• Act as a resource person for other staff. 

• Schedule, conduct and document regular meetings with direct report staff to assure effective communication. 

• Attend and participate in rehabilitation team conferences and/or other meetings with other departments to assure satisfactory patient care. 

• Actively participate in the quality improvement process for the facility. 

• Participate in/provide in-service education sessions. 

• Access continuing education opportunities appropriate to discipline and responsibilities. 

• Adhere to facility policies and procedures and participate in facility quality improvement and safety programs. 

Your experience.  

We hire people, not resumes. But we also expect excellence, which is why we require:

• ASN / ADN from an accredited program with the ability to obtain your BSN from an accredited program within four (4) years of hire unless you possess a minimum of fifteen (15) years of proven continuous Registered Nurse experience in an acute care setting, required 

• Current Colorado RN license or compact license with the ability to obtain Colorado RN license, required 

• Current BLS certification endorsed by the American Heart Association or the ability to obtain within sixty (60) days of hire (with prior approval), required (ACLS/NRP/PALS as appropriate for unit or service) 

• At least one year of Ortho/Neurosurgical Operating Room Circulation experience

Your next move.  

Now that you know more about being an Ortho/Neurosurgery House Supervisor on our team, we hope you’ll join us. At Intermountain Health you’ll reaffirm every day how much you love this work, and why you were called to it in the first place. 

Physical Requirements:

Physical Requirements

• Ongoing need for employees to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.

• Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.

• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information, medication preparation, etc.

• Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients. Will also bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.

• Need to walk and assist with transporting/ambulating patients and obtaining and distributing supplies and equipment. This includes pushing/pulling gurneys and portable equipment, including heavy items. Often required to navigate crowded and busy rooms (full of equipment, power cords on the floor, etc).

• May be expected to stand in a stationary position for an extended period of time.

• For roles requiring driving: Expected to drive a vehicle which requires sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles.

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The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience. 

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

Learn more about our comprehensive benefits package here.

Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

All positions subject to close without notice.

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