RN Patient Services Manager I McCreary Cancer Ctr Admin

UNC Health; Lenoir (NC); On-site; USD 52,000 - 77,000; Full time

Job summary

UNC Health is seeking an experienced nursing leader to ensure optimal patient care and staffing across shifts. The role supervises nursing staff, HUCs, and utility aides, while guiding performance reviews and unit education.

It emphasizes safety, quality improvement, and adherence to accrediting standards, with an focus on an environment that supports continued education and orientation for new staff. The position aligns with UNC Health’s mission to deliver high-quality care, requiring a BSN, NC

Qualifications

• BSN from a state-accredited school.
• Registered nurse licensed in North Carolina.
• BLS certification.
• 18 months of professional nursing experience in a tertiary care setting.

Responsibilities

• Ensure appropriate care and services for patients and families.
• Supervise nursing staff, health unit coordinators, nursing assistants and utility aides.
• Participate in annual performance reviews and staff orientation.
• Lead quality improvement initiatives addressing patient safety or care quality gaps.
• Manage budgets and resources to meet unit goals and staffing needs.
• Foster an educational environment for staff development and ongoing training.

Skills

Nursing leadership

Staff supervision

Budgeting

Quality improvement

Education & training

Education

BSN (Bachelor of Science in Nursing)

Job description

Description

Your passion belongs at UNC Health. Join more than 56,000 teammates working together to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve across North Carolina.

Summary

This position is responsible for: ensuring that appropriate enjoy and services are available to patients and families, ensuring adequate and appropriate clinical staffing on each shift, supervision of nursing staff, HUC staff and utility aide staff, assistance with annual performance reviews of staff, participation in quality improvement initiatives to address identified patient safety or quality of care issues, providing and facilitating an environment conducive to staff continuing education needs, on-going unit-based educational needs and orientation of staff members.

Responsibilities

1. Patient Care - Ensures that appropriate care and services are available to patients / clients and families. Facilitates interdisciplinary collaboration in patient/client care planning. Ensures appropriate clinical staffing and skill mix for patient care. Supervises team of professionals / paraprofessionals which may include nursing staff, health unit coordinators, nursing assistants and utility aides.
2. Human Resource Services - Effectively manages human resources. Creates an environment conducive to recruiting and retaining staff. Applies organizational policy and procedures in hiring, promoting, transferring and terminating staff. Provides staff with annual performance feedback and opportunity to set professional goals. Integrates scientific evidence regarding retention of nursing staff into unit planning.
3. Budget Management - Effectively uses clinical and financial information to establish and meet budgetary goals. Implements strategies to increase revenue and cost-effectively manage personnel, supply, and equipment resources. Evaluates the impact of strategic fiscal changes on quality outcomes.
4. Accreditation Issues - Ensures that internal and external regulatory standards or nursing practice are met or exceeded. This includes organizational policy and procedures as well as state, JCAHO, Board of Nursing and other specified accreditating bodies. Standards of practice will reflect integration of current scientific evidence.
5. Customer Satisfaction - Ensures high customer satisfaction. Communicates patient satisfaction results, letters and comments to staff and leads monthly initiatives to improve consumer satisfaction with care and services. Advocates for consumers within the organization, particularly for vulnerable or at risk populations.
6. Quality Improvement- Leads and participated in quality improvement initiatives that focus on identified patient safety or quality of care deficits
7. Education-Creates an educational environment conducive to student learning, staff continuing education, and orientation of new staff members. Accountable for annual competency evaluation of staff that ensures staff has the knowledge and skills to care for the specified patient population.

Education Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing (BSN) from a state-accredited school of professional nursing.

Licensure/Certification Requirements

• Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state of North Carolina.
• BLS required.

Professional Experience Requirements

• Eighteen (18) months of professional nursing experience in a tertiary care setting to include didactic and clinical experience in the area of assignment.

Job Details

• Legal Employer: STATE
• Entity: Caldwell Memorial Hospital
• Organization Unit: UNCH McCreary Cancer Ctr Admin
• Work Type: Full Time
• Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00
• Salary Range: $38.55 - $55.43 per hour (Hiring Range)Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity
• Work Assignment Type: Onsite
• Work Schedule: Day Job
• Location of Job: US:NC:Lenoir
• Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No
• This is a State position employed by UNC Health Care System with UNC Health benefits. If, however, you are presently an employee of another North Carolina agency and currently participate in TSERS or the ORP, you will be eligible to continue participating in those plans at UNC Health.

Equal Opportunity and Diversity

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.

Accommodations

UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities.