Director 4 Sinatra Ortho Surg Onc Full Time Days
Company: Desert Regional Medical Center
Location: Palm Springs
Posted on: September 18, 2023
Job Description:
Desert Regional Medical Center is a 385-bed acute-care hospital
classified as a stroke receiving center and level 2 trauma facility
with an innovative, patient centered and evidence-based
Rehabilitation Services Department. Our compassionate team provides
a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, including acute
care rehabilitation, joint replacement & spinal surgery,
neurosurgery, ICU, Telemetry, step-down care, skilled nursing, as
well as outpatient therapy, hand and lymphedema clinics.
GENERAL DUTIES: The Director has a 24-hour, 7 days a week
responsibility to provide leadership for the cost center (s). This
includes planning, organizing, staff development, performance
management, quality fiscal and information management, regulatory
compliance, building and enhancing relationships through customer
relations, and appropriate professional involvement. The Director
is accountable for the management of the cost center(s) within the
established budget. The Director will work closely with medical
directors, medical department chairs, physicians, and other
disciplines to develop services and ensure quality. Access to all
Patient Health Information. DEPARTMENT SPECIFIC DUTIES:
- Obtains information and interpret information in terms of the
patients needs.
- Demonstrates knowledge of growth and development.
- Understands the range of treatment needed as appropriate to the
ages of the patients served.
- Ensures standards of care, policies, and procedures are
appropriate and
- Current and that they have been reviewed with all staff
members. Reviews and revises policies and procedures as necessary,
but not less than every three years.
- Develops short-term goals and objectives consistent with those
of the organization. Submits and discusses established goals and
objectives with administration at least annually. Assures
departmental action plans meet departmental and organizational
goals, problem solving effectively within the department and with
other departments to achieve these goals.
- Assures regulatory compliance with Title XXII.
- Assures regulatory compliance with TJC
- Regularly attends Nurse Executive Council and takes personal
responsibility for the quality and integrity of Nursing
Administration. Regularly volunteers for and completes special
projects.
- Submits sound annual budget plan by negotiation deadline
annually.
- Achieves YTD compliance with labor hour benchmark per unit of
service. Submits pay period productivity variance reports on time,
identifying rationale for substantive variances.
- Controls and monitors supply costs to achieve flexed budgeted
costs on a quarterly basis.
- Reviews statistical analysis information and corrects any
errors monthly.
- Identifies and implements cost savings through labor and supply
utilization efficiencies.
- Promotes sound staffing practice by optimizing the utilization
of human resources. Anticipates and forecasts personnel needs of
the department with regard to fluctuations in the projected
workload.
- Maintains a written staffing plan consistent with departments
productivity benchmark. Maintains an individual patient
classification system which predicts nursing care requirements by
shift, and maintains documentation to discern trends and patterns
of nursing care delivery by shift and staff mix.
- Ensures that current criteria-based job performance standard
and applicable competencies exist each member of the staff. Ensures
that performance evaluations are completed in a timely fashion for
both annual and evaluations.
- Continually monitors the departments activities and takes
appropriate action to ensure efficient and effective operation.
Observes ongoing operations and analyzes performance to identify
potential problems.
- Assesses and implements staff development and cross-training as
needed.
- Coordinates timely attendance at hospital orientation and all
mandatory continuing education programs for department employees.
Assures current, comprehensive, and timely department specific
orientation for all new employees.
- Supports all hospital programs to include, but not limited to,
risk management, safety, infection control.
- Maintains personal current knowledge and expertise in the
specialty field of the department, and of regulatory requirements
of the department.
- Productively criticizes and effectively counsels staff in a
timely manner.
- Obtains feedback on a regular basis from other departments.
Develops action plans to achieve improvement.
- Maintains a good working rapport with all staff, and other
departments which require frequent interactions and coordination of
efforts.
- Establishes and maintains a routine mode of communication with
staff, e.g., monthly staff meetings and written
communications.
- Communicates self and staff concerns and problems through
proper written and verbal channels.
- Communicates, cooperates, and performs related duties with
other members of the hospital staff and administration in a
courteous and efficient manner to actively contribute to overall
hospital goals and objectives.
- Assists with the development of and execution of a plan of
staff involvement and growth through delegation of appropriate
authorities.
- Acts as a team member within the department and within the
organization.
- Demonstrates effective and responsible relationships with
patients, families, medical director and key physicians, employees,
management and administration, and related outside agencies.
- Assures timely follow up of patient, family, staff, and
physician concerns.
- Assures effective staff recognition.
- Identifies priority quality improvement and customer
satisfaction initiatives.
- Schedules the collection of data for these initiatives, and
other ongoing reviews which serve as quality trending. Monitors and
reviews the results with department staff on a regular basis.
- Achieves measurable improvement in key quality initiatives,
which include both process, e.g., documentation, and outcome
measures.
- Achieves measurable improvement in customer service.
- Reports at least annually to the designated hospital quality
committee,
- Assures department compliance with TJC and other accrediting
body standards as they are updates/revised.
- Works with Medical Staff partners to meet performance metrics
Qualifications POSITION QUALIFICATIONS: Required:
- Current California RN license
- BSN
- Current American Heart Association BLS
- Three (3) years experience in clinical specialty.
- Current knowledge of the field, with evidence of ongoing
continuing education in clinical specialty
- Progressive healthcare experience including at least two years
supervisory experience.
- Basic computer competence.
- Demonstrated competence as a leader. Preferred: Masters Degree
(MSN, MHA, MBA)
Pay Range: $59.24 - $94.79 Individual wages are determined based
upon a number of factors including, but not limited to, an
individuals qualifications and experience
#LI-DR2 Tenet complies with federal, state, and/or local laws
regarding mandatory vaccination of its workforce. If you are
offered this position and must be vaccinated under any applicable
law, you will be required to show proof of full vaccination or
obtain an approval of a religious or medical exemption prior to
your start date. If you receive an exemption from the vaccination
requirement, you will be required to submit to regular testing in
accordance with the law. 2305038138
Employment practices will not be influenced or affected by an
applicants or employees race, color, religion, sex (including
pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information,
sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status
or any other legally protected status. Tenet will make reasonable
accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities unless
doing so would result in an undue hardship. by Jobble
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