House Supervisor

Entity: Owensboro Health Muhlenberg Community Hospital | Department: Nursing Administration | Work Hours: 7a-7p, 3p-11p | Weekend Requirements: Every Other | 0.5 FTE

Job Summary:

Provides nursing and operational leadership while ensuring implementation of clinical objectives and quality patient care in coordination with multidisciplinary teams and leadership. Functions as liaison between all staff, patients, and administration.

As a Supervisor at Owensboro Health, you provide frontline leadership and direct support to team members during daily operations. You champion our Safety Culture and foster continuous improvement. You ensure safe, efficient, and compassionate care delivery by monitoring performance, reinforcing expectations, and promoting a just culture. You are a key driver of Owensboro Health’s Target Zero safety commitment, empowering staff to speak up, report concerns, and prioritize patient well-being.

Job Responsibilities:

• Provides leadership, orientation, training, coaching, and mentoring to staff.

• Responds to requests for assistance with patient care.

• Ensures staff compliance with department and organizational policies, procedures, and protocols.

• Evaluates the effectiveness of patient care and identifies any issues that affect desired patient outcomes.

• Responds to complaints and addresses through established channels.

• Coordinates organizational resources to facilitate patient flow using defined surge activation and management processes when necessary.

• Provides administrative direction during disaster and coordinates departmental response according to hospital policy including opening command center when necessary.

• Creates and executes daily staffing plan for all in-patient nursing units by evaluating need for low census, reallocation of staff, and procurement of additional resources.

• Responds to and oversees management of all requests for Patient Emergency Response Teams (MRT, Code Blue, Code 250, Trauma 911) in accordance with hospital policy.

• Responds to and oversees management of all requests for Patient/Family/Visitor behavioral requests (Code Green and TRT)

• Verifies accuracy of Provisional Reports of death and acts as Deputy Registrar of Vital Statistics for OHRH

• Provides nightly after-hours coverage for the following departments: HIM, Materials Management, Dietary, Diabetes Educator (and weekends),Wound Care, Case Management, Marketing, Patient Experience (and weekends), and Vascular Access Team (only when unavailable).

• Facilitates provider notification in coordination with the Call Center and Medical Staff Office.

• Assists with Employee Relations investigations including staff UDS and BAT collections when necessary.

• Acts as UDS and BAT collector on behalf of OH Occupational Medicine at OHRH.

• Acts as expert resource for policy identification and interpretation.

• Interprets pain pumps and makes adjustments with provider order in accordance with hospital policy.

• Provides notary services related to hospital business (paternity affidavit, EMS DNR, Transfers to psychiatric facility, and advanced directives).

• Performs job duties in accordance with the Nurse Practice Act.

Leadership Responsibilities:

• Performance Management - Supervises the daily activities of technical, operations, business support or team members and is accountable for performance.

• Resource Management - Sets priorities for the team to ensure task completion; coordinates worked activities to optimize productivity.

• Problem solving – identifies and solves problems guided by policies and procedures; delivers guidance with oversight from manager.

• Delegation - Effectively assigning tasks and responsibilities to team members based on their strengths.   May perform duties of subordinates but at an advanced level and typically less than 80% of their time. 

• Leadership Ability – Will approve timecards, participate in hiring, training new hires, provide input into corrective action & development plans, assist with process improvement conduct performance reviews, assist with budgeting and operations, etc.

• Conflict Resolution - Identifies and addresses conflicts within the team, facilitating constructive dialogue, and finding solutions to disagreements. 

• Change Management - Leads and adapts to organizational changes, communicating effectively during transitions, and engages the team in the process.

• Leadership Development – Actively engages in the Leadership Development Pr