Assistant Nurse Manager - Ambulatory - Central/Green

Assistant Nurse Manager - Ambulatory - Central/Green

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Join us at Cleveland Clinic Akron General Hospital where we have been providing world-class care to our community for over 100 years. Cleveland Clinic is recognized as one of the top hospitals in the nation. At Akron General, we strive for patient-centered care and comfort with our collaborative team of healthcare professionals. We are committed to serving the community and treating our patients as family.

Akron General Medical Center is looking to add an Assistant Nurse Manager to their Ambulatory Operations team. The Assistant Nurse Manager in this role will monitor daily clinical operations of outpatient clinics. The locations this ANM may support include Akron General Medical Center, Akron Medical Offices (POB and ABC), Broadway Akron General, Exchange St. Office, Green Health and Wellness, South Central Family Physicians, Sub South Group and the OBGYN office on Turkeyfoot Road. You will oversee RNs, LPNs, MAs and other patient care providers to ensure quality of care and resolve patient care and personnel issues.

A caregiver in this position works varying shifts from 7:30AM 5:00PM.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:

• Oversee nursing personnel and patient care providers in the clinical setting.
• Coordinate activities to ensure quality and safe patient care.
• Anticipate and resolve patient care and personnel issues.
• In conjunction with the clinical manager, ensure maintenance of annual staff competencies and continuing education.
• Perform duties of the RN Ambulatory as needed.
• Collaborate with care coordinators to ensure smooth and effective transitions of care.
• Participate and/or coordinate committees, task forces, and continuous improvement activities.
• Participate in department leadership meetings.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory standards and patient safety initiatives.
• Assume responsibilities of the clinical manager as needed.
• Participate in the hiring and onboarding of new caregivers, annual performance reviews and performance improvement.

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• Graduate from an accredited school of professional nursing (ADN or BSN program)
• Bachelor's of Science in Nursing (BSN)
• Current state licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN)
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification through the American Heart Association (AHA)
• Two years of recent RN experience

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• Supervisory experience

Physical Requirements:

• Requires full range of motion, manual and finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination.
• Requires corrected hearing and vision to normal range.
• May requires some exposure to communicable diseases or bodily fluids.
• Light Work - Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly (Constantly: activity or condition exists 2/3 or more of the time) to move objects. Even though the weight lifted may be only a negligible amount, a job should be rated Light Work: (1) when it requires walking or standing to a significant degree; or (2) when it requires sitting most of the time but entails pushing and/or pulling of arm or leg controls; and/or (3) when the job requires working at a production rate pace entailing the constant pushing and/or pulling of materials even though the weight of those materials is negligible.

Personal Protective Equipment:

• Follows Standard Precautions using personal protective equipment as required for procedures.

The policy of Cleveland Clinic Health System and its system hospitals (Cleveland Clinic Health System) is to provide equal opportunity to all of our caregivers and applicants for employment in our tobacco free and drug free environment. All offers of employment are followed by testing for controlled substance and nicotine. All new caregivers must clear a nicotine test within their 90-day new hire period. Candidates for employment who are impacted by Cleveland Clinic Health System's Smoking Policy will be permitted to reapply for open positions after one year.

Cleveland Clinic Health System administers an influenza prevention program. You will be required to comply with this program, which will include obtaining an influenza vaccination on an annual basis or obtaining an approved exemption.

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