Administrative Supervisor - Administration Liaison - Sharp Tri-City Medical Center - Night Shift - Per Diem

150 Sharp Tri-City Medical Center; California (MO); On-site; USD 73,000 - 81,000; Full time

Job summary

Sharp HealthCare in California seeks an experienced nurse leader to provide hospital-wide administrative support during their shift. You will supervise staff, coordinate care across disciplines, and ensure adherence to standards while collaborating with clinical leadership.

Required: 5+ years RN experience with charge nurse or supervisory roles; California RN license and BLS; ACLS preferred. This is a full-time, on-site leadership position focusing on patient placement and efficiency.

Qualifications

• Must hold California RN license and current BLS certification.
• Minimum 5 years of RN experience with prior charge nurse or supervisory experience.
• ACLS preferred; BSN preferred or ADN with extensive RN experience may be considered.

Responsibilities

• Provides support and performs delegated administrative tasks hospital-wide during a shift.
• Acts on behalf of administration and supervises staff as a representative of leadership.
• Ensures patient care standards and coordination with clinical directors on call.
• Coordinates scheduling and flow of internal and external supplemental staff.
• Optimizes patient flow, placement, and outcomes while managing resources.

Skills

Staff supervision

Shift leadership

Scheduling & staffing

Interdepartmental liaison

Effective communication

Education

California RN license

AHA BLS Healthcare Provider

BSN preferred

ADN with 7+ years RN experience

ACLS certification preferred

Tools

Interqual criteria

Aionex

Job description

Hours: Shift Start Time: 6 PM Shift End Time: 6:30 AM AWS Hours Requirement: 12/36 - 12 Hour Shift Additional Shift Information: Weekend Requirements: Every Other On-Call Required: No Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum): $73.740 - $73.740 - $81.110 The stated pay scale reflects the range that Sharp reasonably expects to pay for this position. The actual pay rate and pay grade for this position will be dependent on a variety of factors, including an applicant's years of experience, unique skills and abilities, education, alignment with similar internal candidates, marketplace factors, other requirements for the position, and employer business practices.

What You Will Do

• Provides support, guidance, and performs delegated administrative functions on a hospital-wide basis during a specific shift.
• Has authority to act on behalf of administration and the management team and assumes responsibility for supervision of staff as a representative of administration.
• Assumes administrative authority for the level of patient care and standards of care.
• Serves as a liaison, resource and support person for all hospital staff, patients, families and physicians during their shift.
• Coordinates scheduling and flow of internal and external supplemental staff.
• Assures appropriate placement of patients using Interqual criteria and Aionex.
• Communicates with the on-call Clinical Director and/or Administrator on call as indicated.
• Escalates patient and employee issues to management as necessary.
• This person is responsible for the coordination of patient placement activities to optimize patient flow, patient outcomes, admission appropriateness, and cost efficiencies in support of organizational strategic initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• 5 Years RN experience.
• 1 Year recent Charge Nurse or other management/supervisory experience.
• California Registered Nurse (RN) - CA Board of Registered Nursing -REQUIRED
• AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association -REQUIRED

Preferred Qualifications

• ACLS Certification (Advanced Cardiac Life Support) - American Heart Association -PREFERRED
• Other Qualification Requirements Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), or may consider Associate Degree, Nursing (A.D.N.) with seven (7) years' experience as a Registered Nurse in lieu of BSN, required.
• NVCI within 90 days of hire or transfer, required.
• Specialty certification by a nationally recognized nursing organization, preferred.

Essential Functions

• Maintains a safe, clean working environment, including unit based safety and infection control requirements.
• Accepts organizational accountability for services provided to patients; interacts with patients, families, physicians and other customers professionally as needed.
• Functions as a liaison, role model and clinical resource for staff.
• Assists with coordination of care of patients between healthcare disciplines and across the continuum of healthcare.
• Assumes responsibility for staffing personnel with regard for scope of practice, competencies, patient needs and complexity of care as needed.
• Provides input into performance of personnel.
• Accountable for appropriate utilization of resources, human and materials.
• Takes accountability for personal professional growth and development.
• Demonstrates ability to optimize patient flow, patient placement and patient outcomes while optimizing utilization of resources.
• Collaborates with management team, staffing office, staff, physicians and medical groups to facilitate patient flow.
• Demonstrates effective verbal and written communication skill and ability to handle conflict and reach consensus and collaboration.
• Demonstrates ability to effectively use technological tools to optimize efficient and effective patient placement.
• Collects and uses data to improve timely decision-making.
• Active participation on the nursing units by completing regular rounds.
• Manages daily bed meeting, helps determine optimal staffing plans for next shift.
• Role models standards of service excellence to staff and leadership.
• Advocates for a work environment that minimizes work related illness and injury.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Knowledge of the scope of practice for staff, application of the nursing process, and implementation of the individualized plan of care.
• Excellent decision-making ability regarding when to notify others about issues or situations.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to communicate effectively utilizing both written and verbal skills.
• Demonstrates initiative, integrity and strong sense of values and ethical standards.
• Knowledge of automated data systems, hospital information system database analysis and display preferred.
• Knowledge of Interqual criteria and Aionex (or willingness to learn.)
• Ability to make patient care and employee decisions.
• Possesses the fundamental management skills of planning, organizing, facilitating, coordinating, collaborating and the ability to communicate with all levels in the organization.
• Ability to train and develop other personnel by imparting knowledge gained over years of experience.
• Ability to respond to and manage emergency situations.

Sharp HealthCare is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability or any other protected class.

Sharp HealthCare is a not-for-profit health care system based in San Diego, California, with four acute care hospitals, three specialty hospitals, three medical groups and a health plan. We provide medical services in virtually all fields of medicine, including primary care, heart care, cancer, orthopedics, women's health, rehabilitation, robotic surgery and bariatric surgery. Sharp sets the community standard for exceptional care. Sharp Grossmont Hospital and Sharp Memorial Hospital have received prestigious Magnet recognition by the American Nurses Credentialing Center for excellence in nursing practices and quality patient care. At the heart of our organization are more than 18,000 affiliated physicians, nurses, staff and volunteers who are on a journey to make health care better for our patients and their families. It's what we call The Sharp Experience – treating each person with dignity, compassion and respect, and using our clinical excellence and advanced technology to deliver the highest-quality patient care. We are dedicated to transforming the health care experience by making Sharp the best place to work, the best place to practice medicine and the best place to receive care in San Diego.