Supervisor Patient Flow and Staffing Office

1004 Lehigh Valley Hospital; Allentown (Lehigh County); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Lehigh Valley Health Network seeks a Supervisor of Patient Flow and Staffing to lead bed management and the capacity command center across campuses. You will collaborate with medicine, nursing, staffing, patient logistics, and operations to optimize throughput and ensure safe, high-quality patient care.

Responsibilities include directing staffing and patient logistics teams, driving real-time interventions, and overseeing performance improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

• 3 years experience in nursing and 2 years experience in healthcare supervision, administration, or hospital operations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio) and ability to facilitate and lead work groups.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and oversight of staffing and patient logistics colleagues.
• Coordinate and expedite patient throughput and bed management across campuses.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve capacity and throughput.
• Represent the capacity command center in campus operations huddles and lead system capacity discussions.
• Drive process improvements to optimize patient flow and hospital operations.

Skills

Nursing experience

Healthcare supervision

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing or related field

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Imagine a career at one of the nation's most advanced health networks. Be part of an exceptional health care experience. Join the inspired, passionate team at Lehigh Valley Health Network, a nationally recognized, forward-thinking organization offering plenty of opportunity to do great work. LVHN has been ranked among the "Best Hospitals" by U.S. News & World Report for 23 consecutive years. We're a Magnet(tm) Hospital, having been honored five times with the American Nurses Credentialing Center's prestigious distinction for nursing excellence and quality patient outcomes in our Lehigh Valley region. Finally, Lehigh Valley Hospital - Cedar Crest, Lehigh Valley Hospital - Muhlenberg, Lehigh Valley Hospital- Hazleton, and Lehigh Valley Hospital - Pocono each received an 'A' grade on the Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group in 2020, the highest grade in patient safety. These recognitions highlight LVHN's commitment to teamwork, compassion, and technology with an unrelenting focus on delivering the best health care possible every day. Whether you're considering your next career move or your first, you should consider Lehigh Valley Health Network.

Summary

The Supervisor Patient Flow and Staffing Office is responsible for daily operational, process, and performance management of the enterprise-wide Patient Flow and Staffing Office. Specifically, the Supervisor will collaborate with colleagues and leaders from medicine, nursing, staffing, patient logistics, case management, utilization review, environmental services, emergency communications, emergency medical services, and operations across all campuses on a daily basis to optimize and coordinate patient care. This includes oversight of staffing and patient logistics staff, including bed management. Collaborates with the Transfer Center to help facilitate throughput. This position also has responsibility for hospital capacity monitoring and root-cause analysis of problems to drive real-time interventions and solutions and to facilitate safe, efficient, and quality patient care throughout the system. The Supervisor will have an integral role in the oversight and strategy development of the Patient Flow and Staffing Office, focusing both on daily operations and ongoing performance improvement and quality assurance.

Job Duties

• Responsible for providing leadership to, and direct oversight of, staffing and patient logistics colleagues.
• Expedite, prioritize, synchronize, and mediate issues or barriers related to patient throughput, serving as an escalation point for problem resolution.
• Continually work to improve operating mechanisms within the Command Center and foster collaboration and issue resolution amongst the multidisciplinary teams within the center.
• Identify process improvement strategies to improve patient flow, system balance, and management of surge volumes.
• Represent the capacity command center in campus operations huddles and lead system capacity huddles as needed.
• Provides a visible, professional leadership presence for the capacity command center by partnering with leadership from the inter-professional teams to collaboratively foster a positive, team-based work environment.
• Manage additional projects as they relate to staffing, patient throughput and hospital operations.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing, Management, Business administration, Healthcare or Public Administration, Public Health, Social Work, or a related field. 3 years experience in nursing and 2 years experience in healthcare supervision, administration, or hospital operations. Demonstrated creative problem solving with ability to synthesize evidence based best practice in a variety of settings. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Self-driven leader with high level of interpersonal, problem solving, and analytical skills. Demonstrated ability to facilitate and lead work groups and projects. Familiarity with the Microsoft Office product Suite, including Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio. BLS - Basic Life Support AHA - American Heart Association RN - Licensed Registered Nurse_PA - State of Pennsylvania

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Nursing, Management, Business administration, Healthcare or Public Administration, Public Health, Social Work, or a related field.
• Proficiency with Epic and demonstrated comfort with technology utilized throughout the patient care processes.

Additional Qualifications

Physical Demands Lift and carry 7 lbs., continuous sitting >67%, frequent keyboard use/repetitive motion, frequent fine motor activity/wrist position deviation.

Job Description Disclaimer

This position description provides the major duties/responsibilities, requirements and working conditions for the position. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current position, however management reserves the right to revise or change as necessary to meet organizational needs. Other responsibilities may be assigned when circumstances require.

Lehigh Valley Health Network is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with, and where applicable, in addition to federal, state and local employment regulations, Lehigh Valley Health Network will provide employment opportunities to all persons without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or other such protected classes as may be defined by law. All personnel actions and programs will adhere to this policy. Personnel actions and programs include, but are not limited to recruitment, selection, hiring, transfers, promotions, terminations, compensation, benefits, educational programs and/or social activities.

Work Shift: Day Shift Address: 2024 Lehigh St Primary Location: Allentown - 2024 Lehigh Street Position Type: Onsite Union: Not Applicable Work Schedule: 7:00a-3:30p Department: 1004-09451 COH - Bed Management Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) is the region’s largest employer and health care provider of choice.

Our nearly 20,000 health care professionals take pride in what they do and are driven by our mission to heal, comfort and care for the people of our community. LVHN is honored to be certified as a Great Place to Work®. LVHN’s culture of trust – and the positive things colleagues said about working at LVHN when surveyed by Great Place to Work and Fortune – align perfectly with what makes a great workplace. This designation tells you that LVHN is a great place to work from hire to retire. If you are someone who aligns with LVHN’s core values – Compassion, Integrity, Collaboration and Excellence – you will have a rewarding and successful career here.