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Valley Children’s Healthcare seeks an experienced nurse leader to manage the operations of a defined patient care unit during day shifts. You will oversee staff delivering patient care, coordinate unit activities, and assist with staff recruitment, development, and performance evaluation.
The role requires a Bachelor’s degree and a California RN license with BLS. Strong leadership, critical thinking, and communication skills are essential for success in this position.
Qualifications: This position is accountable for managing the overall operations of a defined patient care unit during an assigned shift. The incumbent is accountable for monitoring, evaluation, and directing patient care provided by staff, coordinating activities of the patient care unit, making staff assignments and assisting with the development and evaluation of staff members. The incumbent will assist with the recruitment and hiring of staff, evaluating staff competency and evaluating, coaching, and counseling assigned staff in concert with the Manager/Supervisor. This position practices within the scope of the Nursing Practice Act, and in accordance with Children's policies.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
Other Demonstrated abilities in the areas of critical thinking, problem solving, conflict resolution, leadership including delegation, collaboration, feedback, effective communication and customer focused service behaviors.
Bilingual Skills Preferred
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Compensation Range: $63.16 - $91.58
Workshift: Day (United States of America)
Position Exempt: No
FTE %: 62.5
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 25
Daily Hours: 10
Disclaimer: Final compensation will be dependent upon skills and experience.
Valley Children’s Healthcare – one of the largest pediatric healthcare networks in the nation – provides Central California’s only high-quality, comprehensive care exclusively for children, from before birth to young adulthood. With more than 670 physicians and 3,500 staff, Valley Children’s delivers high-quality, comprehensive care to more than 1.3 million children in our service area. Our network offers highly specialized medical and surgical services to care for children with conditions ranging from common to the highly complex at our 358-bed stand-alone children’s hospital that includes 28 regional NICU beds. Our family-centered, pediatric services extend from a leading pediatric cancer and blood disorders center home on the West Coast, and a pediatric heart center known for its expertise and pioneering treatments, to a Regional Level IV neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), the highest level referral center between Los Angeles and the Bay Area. We participate in community initiatives, we support community efforts, we get involved where we can do the most good.