Manager Neuroscience ICU

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.