Clinical Manager of Heart Transplant, Lung Transplant and VAD - TJUH, Center City

Job Details

Education:

Required/Preferred Additional Training Requirements Minimum BSN and Master’s in related field preferred Certificates/Licenses/Registration State Registered Nurse (R.N.) PA

Job Description

The Clinical Manager, Heart Transplant & MCS, has primary responsibility for the training, orientation, oversight and supervision of the Transplant Coordinators and Mechanical Circulatory Support (MCS) Coordinators. The Clinical Manager will work closely with the Medical Director and Surgical Director and is responsible for the maintenance and accuracy of all clinical policies and protocols for the programs. In collaboration with the Manager of Compliance and Quality, the Clinical Manager will be responsible for ensuring compliant practice, CMS and Joint Commission Activities, as well as participation in the department’s Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement activities.

The Clinical Manager will represent clinical nursing for the organ programs he/she supervises and ensure that appropriate enterprise and hospital training is established. Also, the Clinical Manager will ensure that issues related to organ call, MCS call, operating room, patient flow, outpatient care, and bedside nursing have input and coordination from Transplant and MCS nursing when necessary.

• Oversight, supervision, and training of transplant and MCS clinical nursing • Act as the point person for development and maintenance of clinical protocols and workflow policies for areas of oversight

• Maintain regulatory requirements for CMS, UNOS and JC for the transplant and LVAD programs.

• Act as the point person for Performance Improvement related activities for areas of oversight • Investigate and coordinate responses to patient complaints and safety events

• Work closely with the multidisciplinary team to ensure that patients are evaluated, educated, and cared for post-transplant/post MCS in accordance with policies.

• Maintain physician relationships/act as a liaison between physicians and the clinical nursing team Degree/Diploma Obtained Program of Study

Work Shift

Workday Day (United States of America)

Worker Sub Type

Regular

Employee Entity

Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, Inc.

Primary Location Address

1100 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students.