LPN Ambulatory Team Lead - Primary Care

Cleveland Clinic; Cleveland (OH); On-site; USD 33,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, OH is seeking an LPN Ambulatory Team Lead to provide clinical expertise and day-to-day leadership in a fast-paced primary care setting. You will mentor staff, coordinate staffing, and lead process improvements to enhance patient care, safety, and service excellence.

Responsibilities include data collection, contributing to nursing assessments, implementing the care plan, educating patients and families, and ensuring regulatory and HIPAA compliance.

Qualifications

• Graduate of an approved school of Practical Nursing.
• Current Ohio LPN license.
• BLS certification required within new hire period.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily ambulatory nursing team and coordinate staffing.
• Document patient data and contribute to care plans.
• Educate patients and families; ensure safety and HIPAA compliance.
• Support quality improvement and process optimization.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical judgment

Mentoring

Staffing coordination

Education

LPN degree

Job description

As an LPN Ambulatory Team Lead, you will provide both clinical expertise and day-to-day leadership in a fast-paced Primary Care setting. This role serves as a key resource for caregivers, supporting patient care delivery, staffing coordination, process improvement initiatives, and team development. Working collaboratively with providers and nursing leadership, you will help drive exceptional patient outcomes while fostering a positive, team-oriented environment focused on quality, safety, and service excellence. Candidates should possess strong clinical judgment, leadership abilities, and a passion for mentoring and supporting others.

Primary hours for this role 7:30am-4:00pm. This position will also work one evening a week until 8:00pm and rotate one Saturday shift a month if needed.

Responsibilities:

• Collects and documents objective and subjective data and observations about the patient.
• Contributes observations and health information to the nursing assessment and reports all data to the RN or authorized directing health care provider.
• Implements the current plan of nursing care at the direction of the RN, or the medication or treatment authorized by the authorized directing health care provider.
• Documents and verbally communicates the patient’s response to the nursing plan of care, or the medication or treatment including observing patients for adverse reactions to medications or treatments and performing routine laboratory tests.
• Contributes to the revision of the nursing plan of care.
• Provides education and information to patients and family members.
• Maintains professional growth and development within nursing field.
• Participates in the departmental orientation of new employees in a positive manner, shares knowledge, experiences, and provides guidance when assigned and provides feedback to nursing leadership.
• Ensures compliance with regulatory, patient safety and HIPAA requirements and shares information with other team members.
• Assumes a lead role in quality initiatives and process improvement to improve patient outcomes, patient experience, and patient safety.
• Provides feedback to nursing leadership or designee on Outpatient Clinical Care Assistants, Medical Assistants and LPNs for new hire, midyear, and annual reviews.
• Coordinates staffing with RN or designee to ensure coverage in clinical area including off shifts and holidays.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education:

• Graduate of an approved school of Practical Nursing.
• Current demonstrated clinical proficiency.

Certifications:

• Current Ohio License as Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN).
• Successful completion of Basic Life Support (BLS) through American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross required within new hire period.

Competencies:

• Requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgment and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Must be able to work in a stressful environment and take appropriate action.
• Requires strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize.
• Must be able to foster teamwork and coach others for success.

Complexity of Work:

• Requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgment and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Must be able to work in a stressful environment and take appropriate action.

Work Experience:

• Minimum 3 years recent clinical experience as a LPN required.

Physical Requirements:

• Requires full body motion to move and lift patients, manual finger dexterity with good hand-eye coordination, involves extensive standing, walking and occasional lifting.
• Requires corrected vision and hearing to normal range.
• Requires working under stressful conditions or working irregular hours.
• Requires some exposure to communicable diseases or body fluids.
• Medium Work - Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
• Physical requirements are in excess of those for Light Work.

Personal Protective Equipment:

• Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.

Pay Range

Minimum hourly: $24.25

Maximum hourly: $34.50

The pay range displayed on this job posting reflects the anticipated range for new hires. A successful candidate’s actual compensation will be determined after taking factors into consideration such as the candidate’s work history, experience, skill set and education. The pay range displayed does not include any applicable pay practices (e.g., shift differentials, overtime, etc.). The pay range does not include the value of Cleveland Clinic’s benefits package (e.g., healthcare, dental and vision benefits, retirement savings account contributions, etc.).