Lead Clinical Nurse

Position Title: Lead Clinical Nurse

FLSA Classification: Exempt

EEOC Classification: First Level Manager

Location: Clinics 

Position Type: Full Time

Reports to: Senior Director of Integrated Health

Job Number:

Summary: 

Responsibilities: 

• Provide leadership and clinical direction [FT1][FT2] to the clinical nurses and nutrition educator
• ·       Ensures direct reports are following service delivery needs and organization metrics
• Works closely with the Operations Manager to ensure gaps to successful staff performance are identified and addressed[FT3]
• Ensure that the clinic and staff adhere to all relevant healthcare laws, regulations, and clinic policies.
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• Provides educational and instructional information regarding consumer’s health status and prescribed medications regime coordinates health services for consumers and participates in Personal Care Plan
• Oversees documentation of prescribed medications ensuring accuracy
• Ensures that differential effects of medication on its respected targeted symptoms are addressed in medication reviews.
• Maintain accurate patient records and nursing documentation, following best practices and compliance standard
• Facilitates care coordination among external providers[FT4]
• Provides consumers, and/or providers with purpose and potential side effects of prescribed medication.
• Completes comprehensive nursing assessments/treatments as assigned in compliance with NSO policy.
• Prepares clear nursing/health care plans and goals.
• Assesses clients for Medical waivers and other ancillary services, and coordinates with the submission of the requests as needed
• Provides direct clinical services to patients within standard of good nursing practices and within unit standards
• Seeks supervisor consultation when appropriate action is unclear or beyond routine nursing functions
• Is knowable about patient rights and serves as an advocate as needed
• Completes various administrative forms to assure accurate data collections
• Reviews charts regularly to ensure paperwork compliance
• Nursing Services and Monitoring; Nursing assessments, developing of health care plans/services and interventions within the least restrictive setting and towards maximizing capacities for independent functioning Documents include complete, accurate and timely completion of clinical and statistical records.

Leadership skills:

• Adept at inspiring, influencing, and enabling others to achieve goals.
• Promotes a harmonious work environment.
• Develops performance objectives for direct reports. 
• Supervises staff which includes mentoring, coaching, training, and administering disciplinary actions as necessary in keeping with Human Resources policies and procedures. 
• Delegates by allocating decision making and other responsibilities appropriately and effectively. 
• Gives performance reviews on time and takes an active role in the development of subordinates.

Professional Skills:

• Complies with and adheres to department and NSO policies and procedures.  
• Adheres to established quality and performance improvement standards.   
• Works effectively with others to accomplish goals/resolve problems.   
• Organizes work well and uses time effectively.
• Maintains consistent work attendance.  
• Maintains good operating environment by attending work on time as scheduled.
• Professionally represents NSO and promotes NSO mission and vision statements.  
• Promotes a harmonious work environment.
• Demonstrates expertise in his/her functional area, leveraging unique core of knowledge and skills to achieve results.       
• Ensures consumer satisfaction through process of monitoring, improving, and delivering excellence in program services.
• Is open to new approaches and takes steps to increase knowledge, skills and abilities, both from within and outside NSO.
• Complies with contractual and regulatory requirements, as needed.  
• Fosters commitment, team spirit, pride and trust.  
• Possesses good work ethic, drive, energy, and persistence to achieve goals. Takes accountability for job responsibilities. 
• Able to anticipate and bring about change when needed.
• Performs other duties as assigned.  

Working Conditions:

• This position may be required to travel between both Detroit and Westland Integrated Clinic locations.
• Will have consistent physical contact with patients.
• Works in a medical clinical setting; uses a computer, telephone and other office equipment as needed, to perform duties. 
• The noise level in the work environment is variable, due to frequent contact with consumers.
• Bends, stoops, and reaches to gather equipment, files, or to search for and retrieve records and documents.
• Manual dexterity and regular fine-finger and hand/wrist motions are required for performing medical procedures in addition to operating a keyboard, writing and filing.
• Seeing/vision, talking/speaking and listening/hearing are continuously required.
• Frequently required to stand during working hours.
• Required to sit, walk or drive as needed

Candidate Requirements:

• Graduation from Registered Nursing Program
• Valid State of Michigan RN license
• 5 years nursing experience 
• 1 year of supervisory preferred