Clinical Team Coordinator

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LVHN has been ranked among the Best Hospitals by U.S. News & World Report for 23 consecutive years. Were a Magnet(tm) Hospital having been honored five times with the American Nurses Credentialing Centers 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 LVHNs commitment to teamwork compassion and technology with an unrelenting focus on delivering the best health care possible every day.

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• Serves as a clinical and operational resource to support patient care delivery and clinical operations on a 24/7 basis. This may include participation in departmental scheduling requirements such as on-call holiday weekend and other coverage needs. As operational demands require may provide direct patient care and assume clinical responsibilities to support safe effective operations and continuity of care. Provides leadership guidance and escalation support for clinical staff assisting with decision-making problem-solving and operational challenges. Supervises a team of nurses providing day-to-day direction to ensure efficient workflow productivity quality outcomes and service excellence. Assigns and coordinates work activities to achieve operational goals maintain regulatory compliance and support a safe patient-centered care environment.
• Promotes a culture of respect safety and compassion by ensuring care delivery aligns with patient preferences priorities and cultural values through staff oversight and operational leadership.
• Collaborates with the medical staff to facilitate consistency of interdisciplinary plans of care and patient throughput. May work to justify and gain cooperation of other parties on nursing policies practices and procedures.
• Manages day-to-day elements of the budget. Responsible for completing in a timely manner the units staff schedules to ensure adequate staffing to meet patient care needs and maintain quality care. Adjusts staffing in real time and authorizes overtime or scheduling changes to fill time-sensitive shifts as necessary. Responsible for completing payroll reconciliation and sign off. Identifies workflow or staffing concerns and communicates trends to the Nurse Manager.
• Takes appropriate action to follow up and resolve any issues or complaints raised by patients families and physicians through effective communication and escalation protocols.
• Collaborates with the Nurse Manager to evaluate maintain and improve clinical team member performance. Consults on performance evaluations and may be responsible for providing guidance coaching and training to staff. Under guidance of Nurse Manager issues verbal warnings for performance or behavioral concerns; escalates higherlevel discipline to the Nurse Manager. Supports in creation of educational programs and setting minimum competencies.
• Consults Nurse Manager in budget forecasting and development of cost saving activities.
• Supports nursing professional development Magnet and Shared Governance by actively participating in and mentoring colleagues through unit-based committees councils quality improvement initiatives and the Clinical Ladder program.
• Responsible for evaluating quality of clinical practice to ensure compliance with organization department and unit specific goals. Makes adjustments or recommended enhancements in systems and processes to solve problems or improve effectiveness of the nursing practice. Supports nursing research EBP projects and innovation initiatives.

• Bachelors Degree of Science in Nursing (BSN).
• 2 years as a Registered Nurse in an acute care setting.
• RN - Licensed Registered NursePA - State of Pennsylvania Upon Hire or
• RN - Licensed Registered NurseNJ - State of New Jersey Upon Hire

• Masters Degree of Science in Nursing (MSN).
• Less than 1 year prior leadership experience.

• Current RN licensure in state of practice. BLS required based on organizational guidelines/polices. Certification in specialty preferredIf Certification is required on a specific unit; certification must be obtained within six months of hire date.

Lehigh Valley Health Network is an equal opportunity 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.

Valley Health Network does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Agencies should not forward resumes to our job aliases our employees or any other organization location. Lehigh Valley Health Network is not responsible for any agency fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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