Assistant Patient Care Manager (RN) - Lifeflight - Full Time, Evenings (10-HRS)

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Evening - 10 Hour (United States of America)

Assistant Patient Care Manager (RN) – Stanford Life Flight
Palo Alto, California

WHY Join Stanford Life Flight?
• Life Flight is part of the world-renowned Stanford Health Care hospital system. A CAMTS accredited, premier air medical transport program, Life Flight transports highly complex critical care patients and scene-response trauma patients to Stanford and other Bay Area hospitals.

Managers that are part of this unit serve on the front lines with opportunities to:
o Work closely with some of the most highly trained and experienced Flight Nurse teams and pilots in the nation.
o Train and innovate with some of the most sophisticated equipment in air medical services.
o Be a representative of Life Flight to our community and pre-hospital partners throughout the Bay Area.
• Provide quality care to patients, engaged with staff in professional development, collaborate with other departments on unit projects.
• Be Part of a Tight Knit Team: Our Stanford Life Flight team is tight knit, collaborative and supportive as they provide top tier care for patients. Life Flight allows and encourages Managers to pursue growth opportunities through education and the multitude of resources at Stanford Health Care. Key roles are in the development of our staff, oversight of quality patient care, innovate and develop new clinical capabilities, and lead our teams in support of Life Flight’s highly-respected safety culture.

• Opportunities to Grow: Managers in our Life Flight have access to:
o $2,000 a year in continued education funds that you can use to go to the top conference in your field each year, to use for advanced certifications, or to go back to school.
o Program onboarding
o Leadership orientation
o Leadership development courses

This is a Stanford Health Care job.

A Brief Overview

The Life Flight Assistant Patient Care Manager is responsible for assisting the Life Flight Patient Care Manager with program management, clinical management and supervision and administrative coordination of the Stanford Life Flight air medical program. The position supports the Patient Care Manager in promoting the achievement of Life Flight’s goals and objectives, including but not limited to, Safety, Business Development, Training/Education, and program financial management.

This position works in a supportive manner as a resource for the patient care unit(s) and as a representative for the Patient Care Manager. Typically assigned responsibility for supervising Life Flight staff and operations and/or for coordinating one or more administrative functions as assigned by the Patient Care Manager, ensuring consistent implementation and monitoring of organizational policies and standards of care, their work involves a

combination of clinical (patient care) and administrative responsibilities.

The Assistant Patient Care Manager provides consistent and timely information and feedback to the Patient Care Manager and is responsible for knowledge and application of all personnel policies and requirements of the collective bargaining agreements. Assistant Patient Care Managers differ from Patient Care Managers in that the latter are unit managers with total responsibility and accountability for one or more patient care units or services.

Locations
Stanford Health Care

What you will do

• Assists in the performance of the operational aspects of Stanford Life Flight while providing mentoring and leadership.
• Support to the Life Flight staff, Pilots, Mechanics and associated Communications teams.
• Supervises the provision of quality, therapeutic and cost-effective patient care in accordance with standards of practice, hospital protocols, policies and procedures, national accreditation standards as determined by the Commission on Accreditation of medical Transport Systems (CAMTS) and desired patient outcomes.
• Assists Patient Care Manager in administrative/management functions and assumes the duties and responsibilities of the Patient Care Manager as delegated and/or in the case of absence.
• Coordinates and directs the Life Flight operations acting on behalf of the Patient Care Manager.
• Facilitates orientation, training and ongoing staff development; assists in coaching, developing and corrective action of personnel as appropriate; participates in ongoing and annual evaluation of employee performance. Facilitates the effective delivery of competent, compassionate care by moni