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Manager Neuroscience ICU - Sharp Grossmont Hospital | Full time, days

Job ID JR151830 Date posted 07/03/2024
La Mesa, California
  • Grossmont Hospital
  • Day
  • Regular
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Overview

At Sharp, being a nurse means transforming the health care experience for your patients, for your colleagues and for yourself. In a collaborative environment with state-of-the-art facilities and advanced clinical practices, we encourage you to follow your passions wherever they take you.

As a recognized leader in nursing excellence with Magnet® recognitions for high-quality, patient-centered care, we invite you to join us in providing health care the way it should be. We offer a wide variety of nursing positions — from RNs and clinical nurse leads to case managers and clinical nurse specialists.

Success Profile

Wondering what qualities it takes to be a successful nursing professional at Sharp? View some of the traits we’re looking for below.

  • Innovative
  • Collaborative
  • Resourceful
  • Advocate
  • Person-centered
  • Critical Thinker

Job Details

Hours:

Shift Start Time:

Variable

Shift End Time:

Variable

AWS Hours Requirement:

8/40 - 8 Hour Shift

Additional Shift Information:

Weekend Requirements:

As Needed

On-Call Required:

Yes

Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum):

$82.093 - $105.927 - $129.760


The stated pay scale reflects the range that Sharp reasonably expects to pay for this position.  The actual pay rate and pay grade for this position will be dependent on a variety of factors, including an applicant’s years of experience, unique skills and abilities, education, alignment with similar internal candidates, marketplace factors, other requirements for the position, and employer business practices.


Sharp Grossmont Hospital is proud to be Sharp HealthCare’s only Comprehensive Stroke Center, and East San Diego County’s largest healthcare facility. Sharp Grossmont Hospital has also been awarded its fourth Magnet designation for excellence in nursing practices and quality patient care. 

Sharp Grossmont Hospital for Neuroscience offers the most advanced neurological and surgical treatments in the region. Our state-of-the-art neuroscience unit is dedicated to the care of patients with both common and rare neurological conditions. Neuroscience nurses receive a robust, neurology and neurosurgery-specific orientation including didactic, skill, preceptor, and simulation sessions. Initial orientation, combined with annual education, provides nurses with a strong neuroscience foundation, and enables them to provide top tier care for this specialty patient population. This broad neuroscience foundation of knowledge also supports neuroscience nurses to take the Certified Neuroscience Registered Nurse (CNRN) certification exam after 1 year of experience. Professional development and growth opportunities are strongly supported through the Magnet structure, research, conferences, lectures, webinars, certification, and education reimbursement.

We’re excited at the prospect of you joining our dynamic team of nursing leadership. This team is inclusive of, but not limited to, nursing assistants, physical, occupational, speech, and respiratory therapists, phlebotomists, imaging technicians, nurse practitioners, hospitalists, and several other integral roles. After joining our team, you along with many others will be intimately involved in the cutting-edge delivery of specialized neuroscience care at Sharp Grossmont.

What You Will Do

Manager Neuroscience ICU will be accountable for coordinating the ongoing development and productivity of a work unit or units and for maintaining the quality of care within that work unit and or programs. Assists the Director with operational planning and provides daily work direction to achieve unit level of care and organizational objectives.

Will contribute to budget development and maintains responsibility for achieving budgetary objectives. The population served may include neonatal, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients. Specific competencies to be identified in appropriate unit skills rosters.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in nursing
  • 3 Years In a leadership position.
  • California Registered Nurse (RN) - CA Board of Registered Nursing -REQUIRED
  • AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association -REQUIRED


Preferred Qualifications

  • Master's degree
  • 2 years management experience.
  • 3 years clinical experience.


Essential Functions

  • LEADERSHIP  Supervises staff, including hiring, coaching and counseling, and assuring performance appraisals are completed. Assures that productivity and quality are tracked and maintained. Collaborates with Director, other Operations Coordinators and Senior Specialists to standardize, update and/or maintain policies and procedures. Assures quality care and compliance with internal standards and regulatory and accreditation bodies. Collaborates with marketing, Service Line Director and community care departments regarding the development, marketing, implementation and evaluation of programs. Assumes 24-hour responsibility and accountability for unit/units supervised. Participates as directed in the annual operational planning process. Executes priorities to ensure implementation of operation plan within the work unit or units. Promotes staff accountability and empowerment through formal and informal mechanisms. Customer serviced: Patients, physicians, peers, consumers, coworkers, directors, and other senior administrators. Effectively institutes change, supporting unit, level of care and organizational goals. Maintains a positive and productive relationship with the medical staff, peers, patients, families, directors and senior administrator.
    Identifies unit level of care, or organizational problems, develops and/or contributes to a plan to resolve problems. Implements and/or assists with plans to achieve resolution.
    Demonstrates effective team building.
    Leads and/or participates on task forces for system integration.
  • QUALITY
    Maintains quality patient care through use of clinical expertise, nursing process and effective supervisorial skills.
    Participates in both unit and level of care quality assurance process.
    Reviews or coordinates the review of quality variance reports for designated unit or units, identifies trends, and develops action plans for resolution.
    Identifies and trends learning needs of staff and works with Senior Specialists to assure needs are met.
    Assures that the standards of care are implemented and evaluated and updated.
    Trends patient satisfaction and implements action plans as necessary to achieve patient satisfaction.
    Identifies and trends needs of the customers served and SCH system regarding service line development.
    Assures delivery of quality patient care that meets all accreditation and regulatory standards.
    Reviews, revises, develops, and maintains safety policies and procedures related to department activities and work environment. Reviews current operations and assesses appropriateness of and compliance with safety policies.
    Works proactively with Biomed, Risk Management and others to ensure ongoing compliance.
  • FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
    Maintains operating unit or units within budgeted cost per UOS. Develops achievable action plans when exceeds cost per UOS.
    Contributes to the identification of and operationalizes cost reduction measures or identifies revenue enhancing opportunities.
    Maintains unit and or units productivity at > 97%.
    Participates in annual budget development.
  • HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
    Assures that staff performance appraisals are conducted in a timely manner.
    Coaches, counsels and institutes developmental plans as necessary.
    Assures that all pertinent information is provided to staff through staff meetings and other forms of formal and informal communication.
    Enable staff to participate in scheduling and staffing.
    Assure schedule is posted within designated time frame.
    Assists staff to access services provided by Human Resources.
    Maintains up to date employee records.
  • PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY

    Must achieve three of the below items to meet standard:

    Develops and achieves goals on a yearly basis.
    Attends and or participates in professional related organizations.
    Participates or attends formal conferences or seminars.
    Serves on community advisory board or task force.
    Publish article in professional journal.
    Public speaking.
    Facility tour participation.
    Other special projects or activities as negotiated with Service Line Director. Represents Department on systemwide committee.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

  • Managerial/Supervisory skills: demonstrated ability to remain flexible in rapid change environment and current health care dynamic climate. Demonstrated ability to plan, design and implement one's own work and to work independently with minimal observation or supervision.
  • Human Relations skills: demonstrated ability to communicate clearly and effectively and to work collaboratively with multiple others of diverse cultures, education background, experience, etc. Demonstrated knowledge of team building skills and principles of self-managed work teams.
  • Political Process skills: ability to function well under condition of current environment; ability to collaborate with multiple others; ability to build partnerships with physicians and others.

Sharp HealthCare is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability or any other protected class.

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California Registered Nurse (RN) - CA Board of Registered Nursing; AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association; Bachelor's Degree in Nursing; Master's Degree

Our Mission and Values

At Sharp, our mission is to improve the health of those we serve with a commitment to excellence in all that we do. We aim to offer quality care and services that set community standards, exceed patients’ expectations and are provided in a caring, convenient, cost-effective and accessible manner.

We have a vision to transform the health care experience through a culture of caring, quality, safety, service, innovation and excellence. Our goal is to be the best place to work, the best place to practice medicine and the best place to receive care.

Our team members are the driving force behind our mission and vision. At Sharp, we’re focused on providing an environment that will meet the needs of both our patients and our employees. Our team members are encouraged to connect with their passions and recommit to the purpose of their work each day.

Benefits

  • Medical, vision
    dental and more

    Our flexible benefits include a choice of two HMO medical plans (both of which include vision), two PPO dental choices, flexible spending accounts, accident insurance, long-term disability insurance and life insurance.

  • Generous vacation
    holiday and sick leave

    We offer one of the most generous plans among health care systems in San Diego, and new Sharp employees start with 25 days of paid time off in just the first year.

  • Wellness
    programs

    We focus on your overall well-being by giving you tools to improve both yourself and your life — mentally, physically, spiritually, emotionally and environmentally. Our focus is on balanced health and wellness to help you reach your health goals and enjoy life along the way.

  • Employee assistance
    program

    At Sharp, we understand that personal problems occasionally arise and you may need to seek outside professional advice. We’re here to help. Our employee assistance program helps employees develop and maintain a lifestyle that supports good health and productivity.

  • Retirement
    plans

    We’re proud to offer two retirement plans to match your needs. The Sharp$aver 401(a) plan matches your after-tax contributions and the 403(b) plan offers a long-term savings plan for pre-tax and Roth contributions with available loan and withdrawal provisions.

  • Educational opportunities
    and tuition reimbursement

    We support and encourage the growth and development of our employees through educational courses for credit in institutions of higher learning, continuing education programs (conferences, workshops, seminars) and specialty certification examinations.

  • Discount programs,
    perks and other benefits

    Our employees are eligible to participate in several group voluntary benefit plans — including group legal, college savings, critical illness insurance, group auto and home insurance and pet insurance.

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