RN Patient Services Manager III - GI Procedures - UNC Medical Center

Description

Nurse Manager - GI Procedures

Location: Memorial Hospital
Schedule: Full-Time, 40 hours/week | Primarily 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Ready to Lead an Exceptional Nursing Team?

We are seeking a dedicated, energetic, and solutions-focused Nurse Manager to lead our fast-paced GI Procedures department. Located within Memorial Hospital, the department serves both inpatient and outpatient populations, providing routine and advanced endoscopic care for diverse and complex patient populations.

The department performs a wide range of diagnostic and therapeutic GI procedures and relies on close collaboration among nursing, endoscopy staff, anesthesia, physicians, and other interdisciplinary partners.

About the Role

The GI Procedures Nurse Manager oversees nursing and support personnel-- providing leadership and operational oversight to ensure safe, efficient, high-quality care for patients and families. This leader is responsible for creating an environment where team members are supported, expectations are clear, and patient safety, quality, teamwork, accountability, and operational excellence remain at the forefront.

What We're Looking For

This nurse leader must have a BSN along with a minimum of 3 years' nursing experience that includes one year of nursing experience in a specialized area. The ideal candidate will also possess prior OR, Endoscopy or Procedural nursing experience; prior nursing management experience; and prior experience leading quality, safety and process-improvement initiatives.

Excellent interpersonal, communication, analytical and problem-solving skills are critical for success in this role.

If you are ready to lead, inspire, develop others, and make a meaningful impact on patients and staff, we invite you to consider our GI Procedures team at Memorial Hospital.

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 supervising large clinical units. Duties include ensuring that appropriate care and services are available to patients and families, ensures adequate and appropriate clinic staffing on each shift, supervision of nursing staff, medical support 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. Provides and facilitates an environment conducive to staff continuing education needs, ongoing 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 Management- 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, Joint Commission, Board of Nursing and other specified accrediting bodies. Integrate current scientific evidence with standards of practice.
5. Quality Improvement- Leads and participates in quality improvement initiatives that focus on identified patient safety or quality of care deficits.
6. 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.
7. 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.

Other information:
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.
* For positions at Magnet Hospitals, professional certification (ANCC Magnet approved) relevant to Management, Leadership or Clinical Area is required within the probationary period of employment.
* BLS required.
Professional Experience Requirements:
* Three (3) years of professional nursing in tertiary care and one (1) year of management experience in specialty area.
Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:

Legal Employer: STATE

Entity: UNC Medical Center

Organization Unit: UNCH GI Procedures

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00

Salary Range:$47.90 - $68.86 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:Chapel Hill

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: Yes

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.

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.

UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email applicant.accommodations@unchealth.unc.edu if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.