Career Opportunities

Essential Duties and Responsibilities of Team Leader includes but is not limited to the following:

• Demonstrates clinical expertise through excellent assessment of physical, mental, and psychological status of patients using age-appropriate knowledge to ensure care standards are met for the patient population
• Plans, evaluates and supervises care for all patients and others as assigned utilizing Core Values in the areas of service, team work, communication, respect for others and time/ priority management.
• Consistently models effective interpersonal and leadership skills necessary to promote effective collaborative working relationships with all members of the healthcare team to provide excellent service to patients served.
• Assists manager with daily operation of the unit to accomplish departmental goals
• Coordinates and participates in formal and informal educational programs, in-services and performance improvement activities to improve technical skills within and outside of specialty area.
• Demonstrates sound judgment and critical thinking skills.
• Demonstrates leadership in patient management which may include real time service recovery
• Demonstrates skills necessary to assist with augmentation, development, and implementation of policies and procedures based upon evidence based best practices and specialty standards.
• Collaborates and demonstrates interpersonal leadership skills with physicians, specialists, all inpatient/ outpatient nursing units, admitting, supervisors, and all health care team members promoting successful communication that is patient centered.
• Demonstrates the ability to deal effectively with stress relating to the changing organizational environment, personnel and patient care issues.
• Collaborates with interdisciplinary departments to facilitate flow of patients in and out of the department in a timely fashion. 
• Collaborates with the UBE to mentor and report on clinical knowledge of current staff
• Serves as mentor and resource to all staff
• Participates in the assessment of staff performance, in collaboration with the Director and or Manager, through contribution to individual staff performance reviews.
• Ensure unit and staff are in compliance with Regulatory Requirements
• Assures inventory is performed on all specialty carts, and equipment.
• Ensures all real time documentation is complete and performs all audits specific to clinical area, as indicated
• Attends 90% of the Team Leader team meetings.
• Attends 90% of unit based staff meetings. 

It is understood that this is a summary of key job functions and does not include every detail of the job that may reasonably be required.

Minimum Requirements:

• BSN; OR other advance degree considered; OR current enrollment in BSN program with completion within 1 year of hire into Team Lead position
• Current Charge experience required with demonstrated leadership skills
• Minimum of 2year’s RN experience in Critical Care required
• Basic Life Support - American Heart Association
• AHAACLSand CPI required within 6months of hire into Team Lead position
• Department specific certification obtained within 6 months of hire into Team Lead position
• Current MA RN License required