Manager, Clinical Program

Northwell Health; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Northwell Health in New York is seeking a Trauma Program Director to lead clinical services, system improvements, and performance initiatives across a multidisciplinary trauma team. You will collaborate with nursing leadership to set standards, guide policy, and advance patient care through data-driven quality measures.

The role emphasizes leadership, education, and cross-department collaboration within a large health system, ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements and best practices in

Qualifications

• BSN required and RN license in New York State.
• 6-8 years of relevant experience with 2-5 years in leadership/management.
• Specialized certifications as needed.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with Nurse Executive to establish nursing care standards and evaluates staff compliance.
• Maintains a safe, caring environment and develops unit goals aligned with institutional values.
• Delivers culturally sensitive patient care education for trauma patients and staff.
• Monitors clinical process indicators and quality audits to identify trends and remedial actions.
• Manages operational, personnel, and financial aspects of the trauma program; liaises with hospital administration.
• Ensures compliance with governmental and American College of Surgeons requirements; oversees data handling and confidentiality.
• Acts as internal resource for trauma care education and pre-hospital staff education.

Skills

Nursing leadership

Healthcare administration

Collaboration

Education

BSN (Bachelor of Science in Nursing)

Job description

Job Description

Manages clinical services, systems, and performance improvement activities as they relate to a multidisciplinary approach to providing care to injured patients. Collaborates with the leadership in developing and maintaining policies and procedures for the Trauma Critical Care Department.

Job Responsibility

• Collaborates with the Nurse Executive to establish nursing care standards and evaluates staff compliance; identifies research protocols effecting the patient population served and keeps nursing staff informed; facilitates effective provision of support services essential to patient care.
• Maintains a safe and caring environment for patients that is conducive to positive health teaching, and maintenance; patient and family expectations of care; develops mechanism to assess same; develops unit goals and objectives to support the institutional values and goals, with input from staff.
• Recognizes the need for patient care to be delivered in a culturally sensitive manner and role models sensitivity to staff; provides intramural and extramural education for professional staff as related to the care of trauma patients, including pre-hospital educational activates for staff.
• Other professional staff trauma related education as needed; monitors indicators of clinical process indicators, system issues, and outcomes related to the quality of care provided to trauma patients, including developing quality indicators, filters, and audits; identifying trends and sentinel events; participating in case reviews of trauma patients; assisting the leadership in outlining and implementing remedial actions.
• Manages the operational, personnel, and financial aspects of the trauma program as needed; serves as a liaison to hospital administration for the trauma program.
• Assists in organizing and documenting compliance with governmental, regulatory, or American College of Surgeon’s requirements for the trauma center; oversees the collection, coding, storage, use, and validation of data on trauma patient while protecting patient confidentiality.
• Serves as internal resource for staff throughout the hospital and an external resource for pre-hospital providers for issues related to the care of trauma patients.
• Assists in facilitating research and protocol design, data collection, analysis, and publication efforts.
• Participates in the development of trauma care systems at the community, state, and national levels; assists in supervising the Prevention / Outreach Nurse Educator.
• Performs related duties as required. All responsibilities noted here are considered essential functions of the job under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Duties not mentioned here, but considered related are not essential functions.

Job Qualification

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing required.
• Current License to practice as a Registered Professional Nurse in New York State required, plus specialized certifications as needed.
• 6-8 years of relevant experience and 2-5 years of leadership / management experience, required.

*Additional Salary Detail

The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future.When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).