Part-time Nursing Clinical Coordinator - Unit Lead

Northwestern Memorial Healthcare; Wheaton (IL); On-site; USD 56,000 - 90,000; Part time

Job summary

Northwestern Memorial Healthcare in Wheaton, IL seeks a Nursing Clinical Coordinator on a 0.6 FTE, part-time schedule with 12-hour shifts. The role is non-exempt and focuses on unit leadership, staff management, and quality care delivery within Northwestern Medicine’s system.

The coordinator will supervise nursing staff, monitor staffing levels, assist with interviews, and support performance improvement, budgeting, and policy adherence, while ensuring regulatory standards and patient

Responsibilities

• Provides leadership support to nurse manager for unit daily management and program management.
• Monitors nursing staffing, operational and care needs, to assure resources available to provide quality patient care, within a specified shift or time frame.
• Maintains unit safe staffing levels through just in time recruitment.
• Assists nursing manager with direct supervision of nursing staff, including scheduling and evaluations.
• Assists with interviews for positions in the nursing department in conjunction with Human Resources.
• Provides staff feedback & competency assessments on an annual basis to nursing manager.
• Ensures employees adherence to standards of performance.
• Provides feedback to employees regarding performance of job duties or adherence to standards of conducts and initiates formal counseling action under the nurse managers oversight when necessary.
• Develops implements and upholds department and organization policies and procedures.
• Recommends changes to policies and procedures to the nursing manager, when appropriate.
• Assists nursing manager with monitoring staff overtime and supports fiscal budget controls on an ongoing basis.
• Provides input to nursing manager in devising an appropriate budget, according to the organizations strategic objectives.
• Accountable for daily charges, meeting NHPPD, expense control and other budget goals.
• Uses effective service recovery skills to solve problems or service breakdowns when they occur.
• Carries out other duties and special assignments as delegated.
• Educates trains and supports staff on necessary procedures, changes and operational issues to assure quality care delivery and policy adherence, as appropriate.
• Assists nursing manager with staff compliance with mandatory education and training requirements, as appropriate.
• Demonstrates proficiency as a staff nurse and serves as a role model and resource to staff.
• Supports and coordinates performance improvement activities for assigned staff.
• Participates, or designates appropriate staff to participate, on process improvement teams.
• Participates in system and local quality improvement goals.
• Displays knowledge of PI process.
• Collects, analyzes and organizes patient care data for the unit.
• Assists manager that staff are following regulatory standards.
• Is a unit leader and is accountable for hardwiring evidence based and unit specific tactics for patient satisfaction (i.e. Hourly Rounding, bedside shift report, discharge calls, and AIDET.)
• Monitors for improvement of chart audit findings at employee level and provides follow-up.
• With the support of and in coordination with the Human Resources and Organization Development function, maintains positive personnel relations and strives to make Marianjoy an employer of choice by ensuring that employee questions and concerns are addressed responsively.
• Ensures compliance with laws and regulations and adherence to HR policies and procedures.

Job description

Northwestern Memorial Healthcare in Wheaton, IL seeks a Nursing Clinical Coordinator on a 0.6 FTE, part-time schedule with 12-hour shifts. The role is non-exempt and focuses on unit leadership, staff management, and quality care delivery within Northwestern Medicine’s system.

The coordinator will supervise nursing staff, monitor staffing levels, assist with interviews, and support performance improvement, budgeting, and policy adherence, while ensuring regulatory standards and patient