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Job Title
Assistant Nurse Manager - Hospice Care Center
Location
Akron
Facility
Justin Rogers Hosp Care Center
Department
Hospice Care Center-Center for Connected Care
Job Code
T98836
Shift
Variable
Schedule
11:00am-7:30pm
Job Summary
Job Details
Join the Cleveland Clinic team where you will work alongside passionate caregivers and provide patient-first healthcare. You will work alongside dedicated caregivers, receive endless support and appreciation, and build a rewarding career with one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world.
Hospice helps patients and their families prepare physically, emotionally, and spiritually for the end of life. Our focus is on providing comfort, not cure; on family, not just the patient; and on quality of life, not duration. Cleveland Clinic’s hospice team includes physicians certified in hospice and palliative medicine, nurses, social workers, chaplains, home health aides and volunteers. This team works together to support patients wherever they call home.
A caregiver in this position works variable hours between 11:00am and 7:30pm. On-call requirements occur every 4th weekend. Weekday on call rotation is 5:00pm - 7:00am.
A caregiver who excels in this role will:
- Provide direction and support to the clinical field staff. Supervises starts of care, resumptions of care and routine visits.
- Conduct assessment of patient's needs, and initiates nursing care plans.
- Facilitate the planning, implementation, development, and evaluation of nursing programs, initiatives, and objectives for the geographic area.
- Assist with the development and implementation of policies and procedures to ensure efficient and effective delivery of health services.
- Serve as a liaison between the nursing leadership, staff, and other areas within the organization.
- Identify and resolve issues affecting the delivery of patient care services.
- Oversee nursing personnel and patient care providers to ensure quality of care.
- Anticipate and resolve patient care issues.
- Ensure continuity of patient care by actively participating in and facilitating communication and collaboration among and between department staff and other departments re: operational issues.
- Review major operational patient care issues with the nursing leadership.
- Provide ongoing clinical evaluation of nurses and other direct and indirect patient care providers in assigned area.
- Counsel employees on performance issues, administers initial corrective actions, collaborates in monitoring attendance issues.
- Alert nursing leadership of significant clinical or other performance issues.
- Participate in interviewing, selecting, and appraising the performance of employees.
- Monitor the adherence to EEO/AAP goals and guidelines. Administers Nursing Institute, departmental and CC policies and procedures.
- Monitor daily clinical operations (patient flow, staffing, supplies, etc.). May prepare schedule of work assignment assuring adequate coverage on all shifts.
- Participate in and supports quality improvement projects, outcomes studies and research initiatives; participates in department and committees as assigned.
- Assist in orienting new personnel, continuing education, and in-service educational programs.
Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:
- Graduated from an accredited school of professional nursing
- Bachelor's degree in Nursing
- 2 years of recent clinical nurse experience
- Current licensure as a Registered Nurse in the State of Ohio
- Basic Life Support (BLS) through American Heart Association or the American Red Cross
- Valid Ohio Driver’s license upon hire; per policy 8-175 thereafter
- Must have reliable transportation and proof of automobile insurance coverage with 100,000/$300,000 coverage upon hire; per policy 8-175 thereafter
Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:
- 2 years in specialty (home health, hospice) experience
Physical Requirements:
- Requires full range of body motion including handling and lifting patient, manual and finger dexterity, and eye-hand coordination.
- Requires standing and walking for extended periods of time.
- Requires corrected vision and hearing to normal range.
- Requires working under stressful conditions and irregular hours.
- Exposure to communicable diseases and/or body fluids.
- Medium Work - Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
- Physical Demand requirements are in excess of those for Light Work.
Personal Protective Equipment:
- Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required
The policy of Cleveland Clinic Health System and its system hospitals (Cleveland Clinic Health System) is to provide equal opportunity to all of our caregivers and applicants for employment in our drug free environment. All offers of employment are followed by testing for controlled substances.
Cleveland Clinic Health System administers an influenza prevention program. You will be required to comply with this program, which will include obtaining an influenza vaccination on an annual basis or obtaining an approved exemption.
Decisions concerning employment, transfers and promotions are made upon the basis of the best qualified candidate without regard to color, race, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, status as a disabled or Vietnam era veteran or any other characteristic protected by law. Information provided on this application may be shared with any Cleveland Clinic Health System facility.
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