About Us
We’re Maimonides Health, Brooklyn’s largest healthcare system, serving over 250,000 patients each year through the system’s 3 hospitals, 1800 physicians and healthcare professionals, more than 80 community-based practices and outpatient centers. At Maimonides Health, our core values H.E.A.R.T drives everything we do. We uphold and maintain Honesty, Empathy, Accountability, Respect, and Teamwork to empower our talented team, engage our respective communities and provide patient-centered care. The system is anchored by Maimonides Medical Center, one of the nation’s largest independent teaching hospitals and home to centers of excellence in numerous specialties; Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital (formerly New York Community Hospital), a 130-bed adult medical-surgical hospital; and Maimonides Children's Hospital, Brooklyn's only children's hospital and only pediatric trauma center. Maimonides' clincal progams rank among the best in the country for patient outcomes, including its Heart and Vascular Institute, Neuroscience Institute, Boneand Joint Center, and Cancer Center. Maimonides is an affiliate of Northwell Health and a major clinical training site for SUNY Downstate College of Medicine.
Overview
Responsible for the clinical and operational management, ensuring that standards of practice for nursing and patient care are maintained; participates in developing departmental plans and programs as required; collects and provides data on unit activities, PI issues, etc. as required.
Responsibilities
- Communication: Strong written and verbal skills are demonstrated in reports, correspondence and presentations. Ensures staff are kept informed of Medical Center and departmental priorities. Communicates vision statement and medical center strategic priorities and demonstrates commitment toward their achievement.
- Professional Development: Participates in conferences, workshops, and other professional development activities to maintain licensure and/or remain professionally current with advances in field of expertise.
- Staff Development: Ensures staff receive mandated in-servicing in Safety, Quality Assurance, Risk Management, Customer Service, Infection Control and any other in-service that may apply.
- Problem Solving: Recommendations and decision making reflect strong analytical skills and focus on quality, cost containment, and impact of change on other departments.
- Customer Service Management: Incorporates the Medical Center's Strategic Plan in developing and/or revising departmental policies and systems. Continually reviews the service delivery process to exceed customer expectations. Is perceived as a role model by staff, peers in customer service leadership.
- Project Management: Participates in multidisciplinary task forces, committees and projects, demonstrating team spirit and ability to work with different internal customers. When leading a project team demonstrates the ability to bring together different views and skills toward timely and effective completion of project objectives.
- Clinical Leadership: Provides clinical supervision to clinical management staff. Leads clinical (treatment) planning meetings. Provide in-service training and maintenance of clinical standards. May provide leadership for hospital-wide clinically oriented committees.
Qualifications
- Participates in developing and implementing goals of assigned units and in evaluating progress toward the goals.
- Participates in selecting and hiring staff in unit; supervises unit staff, initiating disciplinary action, including terminations; carries out annual performance appraisal of employees recommending promotions, raises, etc.
- Responsible for unit staffing plan, developing work schedules for unit employees to ensure appropriate staffing levels and staffing mix are maintained; communicates staffing needs and scheduling requirements to appropriate clerical staff for implementation and follows up to ensure staffing is appropriate.
- Ensures safe and professional patient care by enforcing and monitoring compliance to professional standards, identifying clinical and educational needs of staff; recommends methods for improving staff competence and patient care and assists in developing, implementing and evaluating programs. Supports clinical staff as needed.
- Through meetings, in-services or other established means of communication, provides information to unit staff for effective patient care management; identifies and puts into place appropriate monitors of patient care delivery.
- Participates in the CQI process for unit by identifying patient care issues and assisting in implementing PI monitors.
- Investigates and follows through on all unit occurrences. 8.Maintains departmental reports and records and collects statistical data for administrative and regulatory purposes.
- Provides information to Nurse Manager/Director of Nursing to assist in developing departmental budgets; monitors budget performance of unit throughout the year; recommends methods to improve efficiency and cost-effectiveness of unit operations.
- Maintains established departmental policies and procedures, objectives, quality assurance program, safety, environmental, and infection control standards BSN; Masters preferred. 3-5 y. leadership experience (ambulatory/primary care setting). Knowledge of PCMH, Joint Commission, HEDIS DOH, VFC.
Pay Range
USD $135,000.00 - USD $135,500.00 /Yr.
Equal Employment Opportunity Employer
Maimonides Medical Center (MMC) is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in all aspects of recruiting and employment. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration without regard for race, creed (religion), color, sex, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, age, disability, pregnancy, predisposing genetic characteristic, marital status or domestic violence victim status, citizenship status, or any other factor which cannot lawfully be used as a basis for an employment decision in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. MMC is committed to following the requirements of the New York State Human Rights Law with regard to non-discrimination on the basis of prior criminal conviction and prior arrest.
