Clinical Coordinator-Operating Room

St. Luke’s University Health Network; Allentown (Lehigh County); On-site; USD 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

St. Luke’s University Health Network in Allentown, PA, is seeking a Clinical Coordinator to plan, coordinate, direct, and evaluate daily operations and guide the unit-based team.

This role focuses on staffing management, patient-care assignments, regulatory record-keeping, staff education, and performance reviews, while supporting hiring and customer service activities and unit-level improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

• RN with current license in NJ or PA.
• 2–5 years of nursing experience in a unit specialty.
• Evidence of successful completion of BLS.

Responsibilities

• Develops, evaluates and adjusts staffing based on patient care needs.
• Assigns patient care responsibilities with the unit team.
• Maintains departmental records for administrative and regulatory purposes.
• Facilitates staff education activities (orientation, competency, in-servicing).
• Participates in hiring and counseling staff.
• Conducts customer service activities and handles complaints.
• Manages daily unit operations within budget parameters.
• Performs systematic assessments of assigned patients and plans care.
• Implements, evaluates and documents patient care interventions.
• Supports unit-based performance improvement and committees.

Skills

Nursing

Staff coordination

Regulatory documentation

Job description

Job Overview

The Clinical Coordinator is responsible for planning, coordinating, directing, and evaluating daily operations and guiding the unit-based team.

Responsibilities

• Develops, evaluates and adjusts current and future staffing based upon patient care needs.
• Assigns responsibility for patient care with the unit-based team.
• Maintains departmental records for administrative and regulatory purposes.
• Facilitates staff education activities (i.e. orientation, competency, skill reviews, mandatory in-servicing).
• Provides input to annual performance reviews of assigned staff.
• Participates in hiring and counseling staff.
• Conducts customer service activities and handling of complaints – patients, families, staff or physician.
• Assists with management functions on unit.
• Manages daily operations within budget parameters.
• Performs in depth, systematic assessment of all assigned patients.
• Formulates collaborative plans of care and identifies expected patient outcomes.
• Implements, evaluates and documents patient care interventions and effectiveness in accordance with care plan.
• Organizes, coordinates and prioritizes patient care consistently utilizing available resources.
• Demonstrates competency in the assessment, range of treatment, knowledge of growth and development and communication appropriate to the age of the patient treated.
• Takes active role in unit-based performance improvement and committees, as appropriate.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with current license to practice in the State of New Jersey or Pennsylvania.
• Two to five years nursing experience in unit specialty.
• Evidence of successful completion of BLS.

Physical and Sensory Requirements

• Sit up to 2 hours per day; 1 hour at a time.
• Stand for up to 8 hours per day; 4 hours at a time.
• Walk up to 6 hours per day; 10 minutes at a time.
• Consistently lift, carry and push objects up to 10 pounds.
• Frequently lift, carry and push objects up to 75 pounds.
• Transport patients weighing up to 250 lbs. via wheelchair, bed and/or stretcher with assistance when appropriate.
• Consistently pull up to 10 lbs.
• Frequently pull up to 250 lbs. with assistance when appropriate.
• Frequently stoop and bend, crouch, kneel and climb.
• Frequently reach above shoulder level.
• Occasional crawling.
• Must be able to perceive attributes of an object through touch.
• Frequently finger and handle objects.
• Occasionally firmly grasp, twist, turn objects with hands and fingers.
• Must be able to hear as it relates to normal conversation, and high and low frequencies.
• Must be able to see as it relates to general, near, far color, and peripheral vision, depth perception, and visual monotony (e.g. computer screen).

St. Luke's University Health Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer.