Career Opportunities

Job Type: Regular

Time Type: Full time

Work Shift: Day (United States of America)

FLSA Status: Exempt

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

The BIDMC Nursing Mission is to build on a legacy of nursing excellence by caring with compassion, advancing the art & science of nursing, and advocating for the health of patients, families, and communities. The Clinical Advisor -Adm under the direction of the Nursing Director serves as a unit based leader who is a liaison between collaborating departments and is immediately available to clinical nursing staff, physicians, support staff and others involved in the delivery of patient care. Training, evaluation and competencies for this role are overseen by a Nurse Leader to the department.

Job Description:

Primary Responsibilities:
1.    Manages, coordinates and oversees daily unit activities which may include, UCO/front desk activities, vendors and observers. (essential)

2.    Facilitates the daily operations schedule of the unit in conjunction with other clinical departments as needed ; monitoring and managing capacity and efficient throughput of the unit. Responds to all patient care emergencies and is the floor fire marshal. (essential)

3.    Collaborates with other operational departments as needed to coordinate and plan for daily operational schedules and assure appropriate allocation of staff and equipment. (essential)

4.    Serves as a liaison and interface with other departments as needed to assure coordination and continuity of patient care. (essential)

5.    Co-ordinates, constructs and completes staff time schedule, vacation schedules. (essential)

6.    Co-ordinates daily staff assignments in collaboration with other unit leaders and may assist in the selection of observational experiences for students and orientees. (essential)

7.    Participates in relevant process improvement initiatives at the unit level, including managing unit based huddle and coordinates other unit specific quality improvement activity. (essential)

Required Qualifications:
1.    Graduate from an accredited Nursing Program required. Bachelor's degree in Nursing preferred.
2.    License Registered Nurse required., and AHA Basic Life Support Certificate required.
3.    3-5 years related work experience required.
4.    Experience with Staff Scheduling required.
5.    Experience with computer systems required, including web based applications and some Microsoft Office applications which may include Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Access.

Competencies:
1.    Decision Making: Ability to make decisions that are guided by precedents, policies and objectives. Regularly makes decisions and recommendations on issues affecting a department or functional area.

2.    Problem Solving: Ability to address problems that are highly varied, complex and often non-recurring, requiring staff input, innovative, creative, and Lean diagnostic techniques to resolve issues.

3.    Independence of Action: Ability to set goals and determines how to accomplish defined results with some guidelines. Manager/Director provides broad guidance and overall direction.

4.    Written Communications: Ability to summarize and communicate in English moderately complex information in varied written formats to internal and external customers.

5.    Oral Communications: Ability to comprehend and communicate complex verbal information in English to medical center staff, patients, families and external customers.

6.    Knowledge: Ability to demonstrate in-depth knowledge of concepts, practices and policies with the ability to use them in complex varied situations.

7.    Team Work: Ability to act as a team leader for small projects or work groups, creating a collaborative and respectful team environment and improving workflows. Results may impact the operations of one or more departments.

8.    Customer Service: Ability to provide a high level of customer service and staff training to meet customer service standards and expectations for the assigned unit(s). Resolves service issues in the assigned unit(s) in a timely and respectful manner.

Age based Competencies: Employees in this job must be competent to provide patient care to the following age groups: Young adult: 16-30 years, Middle Age: 30 - 60 years, Elderly: 60 - over.

Social/Environmental Requirements:
1.    Work requires close attention to task for work to be accurately completed. Intermittent breaks during the work day do not compromise the work.

2.    Work is varied every day and the employee needs to be adaptable to respond to these changes and use independent judgment and manage priorities.

3.    Potential exposure to adverse environmental conditions

o    Daily:  Protective equipment required(Respirator,earplugs,mask,gloves,eyewear etc), Potential exposure to infectious diseases and/or bloodborne pathogens.

o    Several times a week:  Radiation-X-RAY, Potential exposure to infectious diseases and/or airborne pathogens.

4.    Health Care Status:  HCW1: Regular, day-to-day contact; both face-to-face and hands-on (having close contact within three feet for at least five minutes). Examples: physicians, clinical nurses, phlebotomist, medical assistants, PFT tech, and x-ray tech.- Health Care Worker Status may vary by department

Sensory Requirements:
Close work (paperwork, visual examination), Color vision/perception, Visual monotony, Visual clarity > 20 feet, Visual clarity <3 feet, Hot/Cold, Sharp/Dull, Smell, Conversation, Monitoring Equipment, Telephone, Background Noise.

Physical Requirements:
Medium work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and or up to 20 pounds of force frequently. Job is physical in nature and employee needs to stand and/or move around through the majority of their shift.
This job requires constant Endurance-working up to 5-6 hours without a break,frequent sitting, walking, standing, bending neck, bending waist, twisting neck, twisting waist, Fine Manipulation using one hand, Pushing/Pulling using both hands, Keyboard use, Reaching-above shoulder height, Reaching-below shoulder height, Lifting and carrying items weighing up to 10 lbs, Pushing items weighing up to 10 lbs, Pushing items weighing up to 25 lbs, Pushing items weighing up to 50 lbs.There may be occasional maintain crouch for > 5 minutes, Repetition crouch(>2 times/minutes), maintain crouch for > 5 minutes, Repetition crouch(>2 times/minutes), Crawling, Power Grasping using both hands, Lifting and carrying items weighing up to 25 lbs, Lifting and carrying items weighing up to 50 lbs.Rarely there may be Lifting and carrying items weighing up to 75 lbs, Lifting and carrying items weighing up to or more than 100 lbs, Pull up and/or reposition patient weighing up to 100 pounds without assistance, Pull up and/or reposition patient weighing up to 250 pounds with assistance, Pushing items weighing up to 75 lbs, Pushing items weighing up to or more than 100 lbs, Push a wheelchair or wheeled bed containing a patient weighing up to 250 pounds, with assistance

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) and COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Learn more about this requirement.

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