Manager Nursing Perioperative Services - PACU

Job Description

We're looking for a Manager of Nursing Perioperative Services- PACU , someone who's ready to grow with our company. In this position, you will manage daily clinical and personnel activities and provide administrative support to the Assistant Director. The Nurse Manager participates and coordinates the delivery of high quality, family centered, and developmentally appropriate patient care at the unit level.

Think you've got what it takes?

• Management or other formal leadership experience preferred
• Experience with financial reports and orienting new hires
• PACU knowledgeable (2yrs)

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Maintains clinical competency by ensuring that the physiologic, psychosocial, and developmental needs of the patient are met within a family-centered care environment.
• Ensures the staffing needs of the department are adequately met. Creates and monitors staff schedules. Participates in the decision-making processes for hiring new employees.
• Utilizing an inter-disciplinary approach, coaches and develops unit-based staff to ensure the delivery of high-quality patient care. Assists in developing clinical nurses along the novice to expert continuum.
• Demonstrates effective communication skills with the health care team and works to eliminate communication barriers. Serves as a liaison between physicians, families, nursing staff and ancillary departments.
• Demonstrates accountability for cost effective management of equipment and supplies while ensuring the department achieves patient care goals.
• Supports the implementation of unit goals and communication of the IDS strategic plan to staff.
• Ensures that JC requirements specific to your department are fulfilled but also understands the linkage between your department requirements and those of the integrated delivery system.

Skills & Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree Nursing required
• RN - Lic-Registered Nurses by the Texas Board of Nursing or Nursing Licensure Compact
• BLS - Cert-Basic Life Support BLS - Cert-Basic Life Support issued by the American Heart Association
• 2 years of Nursing experience

"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."

About Us

Texas Children's Hospital West Campus is Houston's first community hospital designed, built and equipped exclusively for children in one of the city's most rapidly growing communities in the area from Sugar Land to Bryan-College Station, Texas. Located at I-10 and Barker Cypress, our 515,007-square-foot hospital houses the only 24/7 pediatric emergency room in the Greater West Houston area, four operating rooms, 16-bed pediatric intensive care unit, 46 acute care beds, advanced imaging services including MRI and CT scans, a neurophysiology sleep lab, a pathology lab and a full-scale pharmacy.

To join our community of 15,000+ dedicated team members, visit texaschildrenspeople.org for career opportunities.

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.