REGISTERED NURSE (RN) / BACK OFFICE SUPERVISOR

SUMMARY

Responsible for managing and coordinating the clinical services function:

Assists the Clinic Manager  in the administrations of Clinic operations

Provides leadership and support to all staff in clinical services to ensure effective delivery of human services to patients in accordance with Clinic mission and policies

Supervises clerical and administrative support staff and volunteers to ensure timely and efficient daily operations including processing and maintenance of patients' medical and related records; insurance filing and follow up on payments; reception and related functions

Ensures administrative operations comply with Clinic policies, contracts and regulations

DUTIES

• Monitoring and changing staff time schedules to ensure the appropriate availability of staff needed to allow the delivery of effective and efficient patient care. Coordinate staff when a mis-match exists.  
• Ensures appropriate level of support provided to clinician or physician during examinations, treatments, and procedures.
• Assists Clinic Manager in recruiting and hiring of appropriate staff
• Assigns workloads, develops priorities, and establishes work schedules necessary to ensure timely and accurate completion of tasks.
• Performs yearly appraisals and develops performance objectives, which results in the growth and development of direct reports
• Attends and actively participates in all team and staff meetings.
• Performs a wide variety of clerical duties including: filing, photocopying, faxing, sorting/distributing mail; preparing outgoing mail; answering the telephone and directing calls as needed; scheduling meetings and maintaining calendars.
• Monitors and changes staff time schedules to ensure the appropriate availability of staff needed to allow the delivery of effective and efficient patient care
• Monitors specialty and volunteer schedules; works to maintain up-to-date staffing calendar.
• Ensures appropriate clinic staffing levels.  Anticipate changes in staffing needs and coordinates staff when shortages exist. 

REQUIREMENTS

• Graduate of an accredited school of professional nursing
• Current California State RN License
• Minimum two years previous RN experience; 1 year dispensing experience
• Proficient oral and written communication skills
• Current CPR certification
• Annual physical
• Two professional references from current/former supervisors
• Citizen of the United States or proof of the right to work in the U.S.
• Bilingual English/Spanish
• Previous experience in community clinic preferred

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REGISTERED NURSE

SUMMARY

Registered Nurse Job Purpose: Promotes and restores patients' health by completing the nursing process; collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary team members; providing physical and psychological support to patients, friends, and families; supervising assigned team members. Strong communicative and managerial skills are a plus.

DUTIES

Identifies patient care requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual patients and other persons in a position to understand care requirements.

Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families.

Promotes patient's independence by establishing patient care goals; teaching patient, friends, and family to understand condition, medications, and self-care skills; answering questions.

Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards; making or recommending necessary adjustments; following hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care set by state board of nursing, state nurse practice act, and other governing agency regulations.

Resolves patient problems and needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies.

Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations; calling for assistance from health care support personnel.

Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations.
Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records.

Maintains continuity among nursing teams by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs.

Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential. title:nurse, registered

Ensures operation of equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements; following manufacturer's instructions; troubleshooting malfunctions; calling for repairs; maintaining equipment inventories; evaluating new equipment and techniques.

Maintains nursing supplies inventory by checking stock to determine inventory level; anticipating needed supplies; placing and expediting orders for supplies; verifying receipt of supplies; using equipment and supplies as needed to accomplish job results.

Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.

Maintains a cooperative relationship among health care teams by communicating information; responding to requests; building rapport; participating in team problem-solving methods.

Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS

Clinical Skills, Bedside Manner, Infection Control, Nursing Skills, Physiological Knowledge, Administering Medication, Medical Teamwork, Multi-tasking, Listening, Verbal Communication, Health Promotion and Maintenance.

REQUIREMENTS

• A valid nursing license.
• A working experience of 2 years or more.
• Strong managerial and leadership skills.

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NURSE PRACTITIONER (PER DIEM)

SUMMARY

Under the supervision of the Medical Director or other staff physicians, the Nurse Practitioner will provide primary health care services as a member of a health care team comprised of other Clinic providers and support staff.

Primary responsibilities relate to management of health care for certain patients and families as assigned.

DUTIES

Performance of health assessments, including a thorough history and physical examination, ordering or performing certain diagnostic tests, evaluation of the psychosocial and family aspects of the situation sufficient to make a general health assessment, and diagnose the nature of common acute and chronic conditions.

Promotion and maintenance of family health, including planning of periodic health assessments and screening for early case findings, assessment and guidance with regard to health hazards, child rearing, good family health habits, family planning, mental and emotional problems and continued maintenance of contact and rapport with the family.

Management of common acute and chronic illness, including minor trauma, episodic problems, common chronic disorders, as well as counseling and education with regard to such problems, performance of minor surgical procedures and initiation of life-saving procedures in emergencies.

Referral of complex and high priority cases to the physician on duty with regard to complicated diagnostic problems, serious illness, complicated therapeutic problems, reevaluation of chronic conditions, etc.

Working as a member of the health care team, and assisting in education of patients and the target community in preventive health care and health maintenance concepts.

Demonstration of patterns of continued learning in order to ensure growth as a practitioner.

Participates in team meetings and provides input on general operational issues to improve the quality of health care delivery including the Clinic's Best Practices team to create and monitor protocols/guidelines for patient care and uniformity of forms.

Attends and participates in in-service training.

SECONDARY DUTIES

May assist Medical Director in supervision of other clinical staff.

Performs related duties as required.

QUALIFICATIONS

1. Current California license to practice above-mentioned duties.

2. Ability to relate well with patients and other health care personnel.

3. Cultural sensitivity appropriate to ethnically diverse patient- and employee-base.

4. Willingness to educate patients and the community in health maintenance and the role of the health care team.

5. Ability to work as a team member.

6. Bilingual in Spanish/English highly preferable.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

1. Graduation from a certified Nurse Practitioner or related program, which entails training as well as practice in the above, mentioned duties.

2. Prefer previous experience providing medical care within a community health center environment.

The incumbent must be able to perform this job safely, without endangering the health or safety of him/herself or others.

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