Nurse Manager 1, Outpatient Clinic, Digestive Health Center-Hiring Bonus And Relocation Package Available.

Department Overview

Hiring Bonus plus relocation package available. Must begin working by July 1, 2024 to qualify.

The Digestive Health Center (DHC) is located in Portland Oregon, on the South Waterfront. We are an outpatient clinic that offers patients an interdisciplinary team approach to care for patients with complex digestive disorders. We specialize in GI Medicine, General Surgery, and Bariatric Surgery.

The DHC has grown, and we are seeking a nurse manger that will join our team, supporting our exceptional RNs in both management initiatives and professional practice.

Function/Duties of Position

Leadership

• Demonstrates leadership practices that influence others to achieve the mission, vision, goals, and objectives of patient care services at the Digestive Health Center and OHSU.

• Utilizes theory and critical thinking in the enactment, demonstration and mentoring of others so that demonstrated expertise is available to supervised personnel and colleagues.

• Integrates age specific/developmental theory and cultural sensitivity into the management of the practice.

• Actively participates in ongoing or ad hoc committees or task forces to identify and resolve patient care issues.

• Assesses staff educational needs on an annual basis and as needed.

• Supports any clinical research activities.

• Supports staff in meeting their highest level of personal growth, satisfaction and professionalism.

Clinical Practice Operations Management

• Analyzes and evaluates nursing practice, research and trends; applies knowledge to the development of standards of care and clinical practice ensuring optimal patient outcomes and fiscal viability.

• Partners with the medical staff and other disciplines in the establishment of patient care goals.

• Directs development of priority competencies (technical skills, critical thinking, human relationship skills) for each type of staff so that role performance is continually maintained/improved at the highest level.

• Coordinates the establishment of nursing care and medical assisting care practices by using selected nursing practice or medical assistant practice information in unusual or complex patient care situations.

• Directs and supervises staff and ensures a safe therapeutic environment.

• Maintains personal and professional growth and the professional development of staff by participating in educational programs and professional organizations.

Human Resources

• Carries out annual GROW professional practice reviews of RNs with feedback from clinicians with support of the ambulatory professional practice leader.

• Facilitates recruitment, interviewing, hiring, orientation, training, and performance review of nursing staff.

• Generates timely and effective documents and communicates disciplinary actions.

• Accurately maintains personnel and credential files.

• Develop a schedule of regular staff in-services and professional development sessions to ensure that they are able to keep current on their skills and knowledge base

• Addresses and coordinates staff training needs by developing standards and ensuring basic competencies for all staff.

• Identifies potential problem areas, develops a system for objectively monitoring performance, and creatively seeks solutions to foster quality improvement.

• Monitors compliance of staff with educational objectives

Quality Management

• Collaborates with the practice managers and medical directors to meet annual quality goals across the continuum of care (i.e., patient flow; optimal clinical care; preventative maintenance program.)

• Uses benchmark data (internal and external) to measure efficiency of workflows.

• Uses OPEx methodology to improve and evaluate care models.

Equipment & Regulation

• Ensures work practices meet health, fire, safety, and regulatory requirements and compliance with DNV and HIPAA standards.

Other Duties as Assigned

• Other work duties, projects, and personal goals as assigned by the Practice manager, Medical Director or senior leadership.

Required Qualifications

• BSN nursing degree;

• Five or more year's relevant clinical experience and two years of recent and relevant leadership experience.

• Strong analytic skills; competent with excel and other databases.

• Demonstrated organization skills.

• Demonstrated problem solving skills.

• Demonstrated communications, interpersonal and conflict resolution skills.

• Demonstrated leadership and planning skills.

• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a multi-disciplinary setting.

• Current Oregon RN License required.

• Current BLS required.

Preferred Qualifications

• BSN nursing degree;

• Five or more year's relevant clinical experience and two years of recent and relevant leadership experience.

• Strong analytic skills; competent with excel and other databases.

• Demonstrated organization skills.

• Demonstrated problem solving skills.

• Demonstrated communications, interpersonal and conflict resolution skills.

• Demonstrated leadership and planning skills.

• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a multi-disciplinary setting.

• Current Oregon RN License required.

• Current BLS required.

Additional Details

This position also comes with some terrific benefits!

• Comprehensive health care plans. Covered 100% for full-time employees and 88% for dependents for .9 FTE and higher.

• $25K of term life insurance provided at no cost to the employee

• Two separate above market pension plans to choose from

• Paid time off- 208 hours per year (full-time), prorated for part-time

• Extended illness bank- 64 hours per year, prorated for part-time

• 9 paid holidays per year

• Three weeks of paid parental leave

• Adoption assistance program (up to 5k)

• Substantial Tri-met and C-Tran discounts

• Tuition Reimbursement

• Innovative Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

All are welcome

Oregon Health & Science University values a diverse and culturally competent workforce. We are proud of our commitment to being an equal opportunity, affirmative action organization that does not discriminate against applicants on the basis of any protected class status, including disability status and protected veteran status. Individuals with diverse backgrounds and those who promote diversity and a culture of inclusion are encouraged to apply. To request reasonable accommodation contact the Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Department at 503-494-5148 or aaeo@ohsu.edu.