Do you want to work with amazing mentors and people who can help you build your knowledge and skillset? A company who takes pride in providing education and experiences that allow each team member to thrive in their role. A place that allows you room to grow with endless opportunities. Then Totally Kids Rehabilitation Hospital maybe the place for you!

Totally Kids Rehabilitation Hospital is dedicated to enriching the health and quality of life of children with medical and developmental needs and who benefit from habilitation and rehabilitation services and the supportive use of technology. We are committed to meeting their medical, physical, developmental, social, psychological and spiritual needs through a blend of tenderness and expertise.

Totally Kids Rehabilitation Hospital has a position available for a Nurse Manager.

Job Summary:

The Nurse Manager has responsibility for providing leadership, direction, and administration of operations associated with their department in collaboration with, human resources, education, continuous improvement of services and staff competence. Individuals in these positions are responsible for promoting and modeling a service-oriented culture focused on employee engagement, patient safety and quality outcomes, service excellence, and fiscal responsibility. The Nurse Manager serve as member of the leadership team, building and supporting effective collegial relationships with applicable internal and external stakeholders; and ensuring optimal operating effectiveness and strategies.

The Nurse Manager demonstrates ability to lead within the following essential domains: functional responsibility, knowledge of the health care environment, communication and relationship management, professionalism, leadership, and business skills.

The Nurse Manager is responsible, twenty-four (24) hours per day, seven days per week; for the daily operation of the nursing unit/department by managing resources necessary to meet the patient needs, providing an environment conducive to employee growth and productivity and functioning within the confines of regulatory requirements.

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• Competitive wages and benefits.
• Night and weekend differentials.
• $500 sign-on bonus.
• Team-centered philosophy of care.

About Totally Kids Rehabilitation Hospital

• Distinctive campus devoted 100% to children
• National leader in providing rehabilitation and habilitation programs with a family-centered emphasis
• Consistently awarded the Gold Seal of Approval by the Joint Commission
• Trusted destination of choice for physicians and parents for more than 50 years.

Requirements:

• Current Registered Nurse licensure in State of California

• Bachelors of Science degree in nursing required. Masters degree in nursing preferred

• Current CPR (BCLS) certification

• Current PALS certification and current ACLS certification (or obtained within 6 months of hire)

• Certified Rehabilitation Registered Nurse (CRRN). Certification or ability to achieve certification is required within one year

• Minimum of five (5) years of pediatric nursing experience required, and a minimum of two years of acute rehabilitation experience preferred

• Minimum of one (1) year experience in management or supervisory capacity

• Knowledge of CMS conditions of participation, CDPH state regulations, CCS, and TJC (hospital, nursing care center, and laboratory) accreditation requirements as applicable to job

• Possess strong communication, interpersonal and collaboration skills

• Works responsibly in a team environment as well as independently

• Manages confidential information effectively and appropriately

SPECIFIC FUNCTIONAL RESPONSIBILITY:

A. Management (Nurse Manager)

• Maintains staffing and assigns nursing schedules to meet patient care needs safely.

• Assigns and utilizes staff with consideration to acuity, scope of practice, and competency.

• Supports a safety focused environment that minimizes adverse patient outcomes and work related illness/injury.

• Adheres to labor laws for staff lunch breaks, rest periods, and time and attendance.

• Performs annual employee reviews in a timely manner and responds to identified needs.

• Reviews job descriptions regularly and updates them to adequately reflect roles and responsibilities of staff.

• Serves as a role model for competent nursing practice in rehabilitation and pediatric nursing.

• Establishes and maintains collaborative relationships with the medical staff.

• Serves as a representative of the unit in committee meetings, and patient care conferences.

• Addresses customer service issues and complaints in a timely manner with follow-up as needed.

B. Clinical Services

• Demonstrates knowledge of current clinical practice

• Assures that age-appropriate developmental care needs of the patient are met throughout clinical services for infants, children, and adolescents.

• Ensures individualized plans of care are used to drive nursing interventions and are appropriate to standards of care for rehabilitation and pediatric patients.

• Maintains a level of competency to provide reliable positive outcomes in areas of responsibility

C. Education and Staff Development

• Identifies educational and training needs of staff skills on the unit, and implements processes for appropriate mentoring, training, and remediation as needed to ensure quality of care.

• Monitors and evaluates the skills and performance of new hires, and collaborates with educators to support appropriate mentoring as needed.

• Assists in the development and implementation of new and ongoing in-services and education to ensure quality nursing and patient care.

• Coaches and mentors staff through performance improvement and evaluation activities.

• Keeps up-to-date with health care changes that affect nursing through conferences, professional societies, publications, seminars, and training.

• Applies evidence-based implementation of practices to hospital standard of care.

KNOWLEDGE OF HEALTH CARE ENVIRONMENT

A. Practice Knowledge

• Demonstrates knowledge of current clinical practice and the roles and functions of patient care team members as applicable to job

• Communicates patient care standards as established by accreditation, regulatory and quality agencies

• Ensures compliance with the state and federal regulatory agency standards, and policies of the organization

• Adheres to professional association standards of practice

• Participates with review and revisions of departmental policies and guidelines

B. Patient Safety

• Supports the development of an organization-wide patient safety program

• Utilizes collective mindfulness in monitoring activities to identify risks and unexpected perils

• Supports a high reliability organization; non-punitive reporting environment, supports a reward system for identifying unsafe practices

• Supports safety surveys, responds and acts on safety recommendations

C. Performance Improvement/Outcome Measurement

• Articulates the organizations quality assurance performance improvement (QAPI) program and goals

• Establishes quality metrics by identifying the problem(s)/system(s)

• Uses data and other sources of evidence to inform decision making

• Measures success at improving specific areas of patient care

• Analyzes the root causes or variation from quality standards

• Consults with other departments as appropriate to collaborate patient care and performance improvement activities

COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT

A. Effective Communication

• Makes oral presentations and prepares written materials to diverse audiences on clinical, health care topics, and organizational issues as applicable to job

• Facilitates group discussions

• Demonstrates effective interpersonal communication skills

B. Relationship Management

• Builds collaborative relationships in the organization

• Exhibits effective conflict resolution skills

• Balances the concerns of individuals with organizational goals and objectives

• Engages staff and others in decision-making

C. Influencing Behaviors

• Asserts views in non-threatening, non-judgmental ways

• Promotes decisions that are patient-family centered

• Applies situational leadership skills

D. Diversity

• Establishes an environment that values diversity (e.g. age, gender, race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, culture)

• Provides an environment conducive to opinion sharing, exploration of ideas and achievement of outcomes

PROFESSIONALISM

A. Personally and Professionally Accountable

• Holds self and others accountable for mutual professional expectations and outcomes

• Promotes leader and staff participation in lifelong learning and educational achievement

B. Career Planner

• Achieves and maintains professional certification as applicable to job

• Acts on feedback about personal strengths and weaknesses

• Completes annual organization education requirements

• Completes annual employee health requirements

C. Ethical

• Upholds ethical principles and corporate compliance standards

• Holds self and staff accountable to comply with ethical standards of practice

D. Advocate

• Promotes clinical perspective in organizational decisions as applicable to job

• Involves clinicians and other staff in decisions that affect their practice

• Represents the perspective of patients and families

E. Trustworthy

• Prudent in showing care for staff organization

• Consistently reliable, truthful and honest

• Ability to hear and convey important and difficult information up and down the organization

• Maintains a level of competency to provide reliable positive outcomes in areas of responsibility

LEADERSHIP

• Addresses ideas, beliefs or viewpoints that should be given serious consideration

• Recognizes ones own method of decision making and the role of beliefs, values and inferences

• Maintains curiosity and eagerness to explore new knowledge and ideas

• Anticipates the unexpected

• Adapts leadership style to situation needs

• Uses knowledge of systems thinking in problem solving and decision making

• Learns from setbacks and failures as well as successes

• Establishes mechanisms that provide for early identification and mentoring of staff with leadership potential

BUSINESS SKILLS

• Supports reward and recognition programs to enhance performance

• Promotes healthful work environments

• Develops, reviews, and assesses the balance scorecard/MBO reports to achieve optimal outcomes

• Uses data management systems for decision making

• Provides leadership for the adoption and implementation of information systems

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DESCRIPTION OF PHYSICAL DEMANDS

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PHYSICAL DEMANDS

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• Distance Vision (clear vision at 20 feet or more)

• Color Vision (ability to identify and distinguish colors)

• Peripheral Vision (ability to observe an area that can be seen up and down or to the left and right while eyes are fixed on a given point)

• Depth Perception (three-dimensional vision; ability to judge distances and spatial l relationships)

• Ability to Adjust Focus (ability to adjust eye to bring an object into sharp focus)

• No Special Vision Requirements

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WORK ENVIRONMENT

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Hearing:

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Ability to hear patient call

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