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Are you an experience Registered Nurse Manager looking for a travel assignment? Join Trinity Health 's FirstChoice Mobile Resource Pool as an Interim Leader. FirstChoice Leaders fill interim leadership assignments across our nationwide healthcare system.

In accordance with the Mission and Guiding Behaviors, the FirstChoice Interim Leader works collaboratively with all members of the healthcare team to provide clinical and administrative leadership for planning, organizing, directing, monitoring, and evaluating safe high-quality patient care/services as directed by the ministry/site executive team. Reports to the ministry/site senior executive, based upon assigned interim duties; and to the FirstChoice executive leadership.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Knows, understands, incorporates, and demonstrates the Ministry/Site Vision as well as the Trinity Health Mission, Vision, and Values in behaviors, practices, and decisions.

• Ensures compliance with all health care standards and requirements established by various licensing, regulatory and accreditation bodies.

• Communicates on a regular basis with senior leaders, the medical staff, the board and other identified stakeholders’ achievements and concerns related to patient safety, quality, patient loyalty, associate engagement and physician satisfaction.

• Maintains a working knowledge of applicable Federal, State, and local laws and regulations, Trinity Health’s Organizational Integrity Program, Standards of Conduct, as well as other policies and procedures to ensure adherence in a manner that reflects honest, ethical, and professional behavior.

• Provides leadership and oversight of all additional functions assigned including but not limited to accreditation, infection prevention, risk management and patient advocacy.

LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES

• Reflects the skills, knowledge, and attributes that individuals use as they serve in the role of a leader. The following provides examples of specific behaviors that correspond with Trinity Health leadership competencies:

• ​Define and share a strategy and vision.

• Align resources toward achievement of UEM results.

• Identify, lead, and embrace change.

• ​ Participates in regional-wide/regional decision-making and workgroups, assuming leadership in implementing improvement changes within the Ministry Organization, as assigned.

• Planning : Collaborates appropriately with Senior Leadership and the Medical Staffs to define standards and processes necessary to support optimal patient outcomes; facilitates the development and implementation of operational strategies to achieve the Organization’s strategic plan. Identifies and implements new services and programs responsive to community and other stakeholder needs.

• Performance Improvement: Participates in and fosters a performance improvement approach that includes both intradepartmental and interdepartmental activities.

• Managing Performance . Oversees the personal and professional development of the assigned team to assure the skill set necessary to achieve the Organization’s strategic plan. Ensures that all designated licensed personnel practice within the scope of the applicable practice act as well as approved organization policies, procedures and standards.

• Communication: Identifies and establishes effective communication processes with all stakeholders; ensures that communication is effective within the division.

• Service Excellence: Develops and oversees strategies to insure optimal levels of patient, staff and physician service excellence; models and directs service culture.

• Financial Performance: Leads the development and effective implementation of the manpower, capital, and operating budgets in alignment with the organization’s strategic plan. Analyzes productivity and directs appropriate changes in standards, services, processes and staffing. Establishes and oversees cost reduction initiatives to achieve the organization’s strategic goals.

• Promotes a Culture of Safety by adhering to policy, procedures and plans that are in place to prevent workplace injury, violence, or adverse outcome to associates and patients.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE

• Current Registered Nursing licensure.

• BSN Degree required. Master’s level degree, preferred.

• Minimum of two years of Registered Nurse Manager leadership experience in patient care in an acute care setting

• In depth knowledge of system thinking, change leadership, shared governance, matrix reporting, continuous improvement, process excellence, and financial and productivity management.

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with all members of the administrative and health care team.

• The ability to synthesize and interpret large amounts of clinical, quality, and financial data.

• Demonstrated problem solving and critical thinking skills.

• Demonstrated ability to model the use of evidence-based leadership/practice, and project management skills.

• Displays excellent interpersonal and communication skills to provide advice, counsel and leadership to staff, physicians, patients, and the community.

PHYSICAL AND MENTAL REQUIREMENTS AND WORKING CONDITIONS

• Must be able to set and organize own work, organization work, and nursing priorities, and adapt them as they change frequently.

• Must be able to work concurrently on a variety of tasks/projects in an environment that may be stressful with individuals having diverse personalities and work styles.

• Must be able to travel to the various Trinity Health locations.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Trinity Health is one of the largest not-for-profit, Catholic healthcare systems in the nation. Built on the foundation of our Mission and Core Values, we integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion in all that we do. Our colleagues have different lived experiences, customs, abilities, and talents. Together, we become our best selves. A diverse and inclusive workforce provides the most accessible and equitable care for those we serve. Trinity Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other status protected by law.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Trinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.

Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.

EOE including disability/veteran