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Job Summary:

Location: Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital
Address: 933 E Pierce St, Council Bluffs, IA

Work Schedule: day hours, full time, 40 hrs./wk.

Provide onsite service coordination for the Wound Care Clinic. Role will include oversight of schedules, implementation of improvement projects, personnel management, payroll, fiscal accountability, and development of a skillful workforce.

Responsibilities:

Essential Job Functions

1. Provides on-site coordination of the Wound Care Clinic, by efficiently organizing a schedule to fit provider and patient needs, gather patient information and record follow up recommendations.

• Preparation of schedules for supervising team and align schedules to meet needs of patients and clinic providers.

• Coordinates/collaborates with ancillary departments.

• Effectively organizes schedules and patient records for the clinics and conferences.

• Prioritizes data collection according to patients’ immediate needs.

2. Assures appropriate staffing levels for patient care and operations.                  

• Facilitates the hiring and training of staff.

• Adjusts staffing appropriate to patient load.

• Supervises and mentors clinic staff, including administrative personnel, nurses, and certified nursing assistants. .

• Reviews time sheets on a weekly basis.

• Monitors staff overtime.

3. Communicates with patients, families and referring providers to provide follow up information.

• Provides timely communication with patients and families as needed.

• Works collaboratively with other departments.

4. Ensures safety, competency and regulatory requirements are met.

• Meets with Wound Center Medical Director monthly. Agenda and log required.

• Collaborates in safety and regulatory activities such as TJC readiness activities.

• Ensures wound care competency is completed annually by staff.

• Ensures checklists are completed as required.

• Reviews policies as requested.

• Completes NOTEs (Notation on the Event) and follow up with appropriate action.

• Participates in identification, analysis, reduction and evaluation of risk issues.

• Monitors on an ongoing basis environmental safety issues and appropriate interventions.

• Reports issues/trends to Service Executive.

5. Supervises and promotes a positive work environment that encourages employee development, employee involvement and employee satisfaction.

• Establishes good rapport with staff members and peers.

• Immediately addresses issues that may prevent a positive work environment.

• Encourages staff to voice their concerns and works to address the issues.

• Encourages staff to seek professional development and education.

• Coordinates and leads meetings with direct reports no less than once per quarter.

6. Promotes a collaborative relationship with Medical Staff.

• Establishes a good working relationship with the medical staff.

• Seeks opinions of the providers on ways to improve operations.

7. Develops and implements the short- and long-range initiatives which are congruent with the hospital mission, vision, and core values.

• Reviews previous and create department initiatives/goals on an annual basis.

• Reviews the initiatives/goals with staff for input and acceptance.

• Presents annual initiatives/goals to Service Executive.

• Presents one performance improvement initiative.

8. Reviews financial spending in responsible areas to ensure fiscal responsibility.

• Conducts monthly reviews of responsibility reports and addresses any variances.

• Demonstrates responsibility i