House Supervisor - Houston

We're searching for a night-shift House Supervisor, someone who works well in a fast-paced setting. In this position you will be responsible for ensuring seamless patient care and campus operations that fosters family   · centered care. Available 24 hours a day, seven day a week ...

Job description

We're searching for a night-shift House Supervisor, someone who works well in a fast-paced setting. In this position you will be responsible for ensuring seamless patient care and campus operations that fosters family  

centered care. Available 24 hours a day, seven day a week basis. Responsible for facilitation of patient flow, appropriate placement of patient bed assignments, requests for patient transfers, internal and external nursing unit staffing.

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Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Ensures cost-effective and appropriate use of employee resources.
• Determine hospital wide patient flow and staffing needs as evidenced by actual staffing in collaboration with local leadership.
• Determines placement of float pool staff based on patient classification, census data and employee competencies as measured by appropriate distribution of the float pool each shift.
• In collaboration with unit Patient Care Manager (PCM) decisions to utilize and/or cancel agency, overtime and additional staff are made to ensure the delivery of high quality in a cost-effective manner as measured by patient classification system data.
• Works with charge nurses to determine unit staffing needs with feedback from the leadership teams in each unit.
• Ensures appropriate and timely placement of internal and external transfers for all patients requiring admission.  
• Demonstrates strong effective interpersonal communication skills with patients, families, and staff.
• Acts as a clinical resource for nursing staff and ancillary personnel.
• Serves as the Clinical leader/resource to address hospital wide issues and events.
• As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and healthy workplace, all successful candidates will be required to undergo respiratory fit testing in compliance with occupational health and safety standards.

Skills & Requirements

• Required bachelor's degree of Science in Nursing
• Required RN - Lic-Registered Nurses by the Texas Board of Nursing or Nursing Licensure Compact and BLS - Cert-Basic Life Support by the American Heart Association
• Required 2 years of nursing experience
• For staff in the role prior to 07/03/2016, Bachelor of Science in Nursing, associate degree in nursing, or Diploma is acceptable

Since 1954, Texas Children's has been leading the charge in patient care, education and research to accelerate health care for children and women around the world. When you love what you do, it truly shows in the smiles of our patient families, employees and our numerous accolades such as being consistently ranked as the best children's hospital in Texas, and among the top in the nation by U.S. News & World Report as well as recognition from Houston Business Journal as one of this city's Best Places to Work for ten consecutive years. 

Texas Children's comprehensive health care network includes our primary hospital in the Texas Medical Center with expertise in over 40 pediatric subspecialties; the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI); the Feigin Tower for pediatric research; Texas Children's Pavilion for Women, a comprehensive obstetrics/gynecology facility focusing on high-risk births; Texas Children's Hospital West Campus, a community hospital in suburban West Houston; Texas Children's Hospital The Woodlands, the first hospital devoted to children's care for communities north of Houston; and Texas Children's Hospital North Austin, the new state-of-the-art facility providing world-class pediatric and maternal care to Austin and Central Texas families. We have also created Texas Children's Health Plan, the nation's first HMO focused on children; Texas Children's Pediatrics, the largest pediatric primary care network in the country; Texas Children's Urgent Care clinics that specialize in after-hours care tailored specifically for children; and a global health program that is channeling care to children and women all over the world. Texas Children's Hospital is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine, one of the largest, most diverse and successful pediatric programs in the nation. 

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 Texas Children's is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.