Manager of Nursing - Outpatient Ambulatory Clinic

We are searching for a Nurse Manager with our Texas Children's Outpatient Ambulatory Clinic someone who works well in a fast-paced hospital setting. In this position, you’ll maintain accountability for clinical and personnel activities and to provide support to the Director, Medical Director and Practice Administrator for outpatient clinic operations. As our Patient Care Manager, you will participate in the delivery of high quality, family-centered and developmentally appropriate patient care at the clinic level. Lastly, you will provide leadership to direct clinic patient flow, staffing and clinical quality in collaboration with physician and administrative outpatient leaders.

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Qualifications

• Current RN Licensure by the Texas Board of Nurses
• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing required
• Two (2) years of nursing experience required
• Basic Life Support required (American Heart Association)

Responsibilities

• Coordinates and collaborates outpatient clinical operations and patient care needs with appropriate members of the healthcare team to achieve desired clinical outcomes and management of care across the continuum
• Demonstrates effective communication skills with health care team and works to eliminate communication barriers
• Serves as a liaison between physicians, families, nursing staff and ancillary departments
• Monitors current and projected patient volumes and clinical processes via data collection and observation
• Effectively and succinctly compiles, analyzes, and presents data to diagnose process improvement opportunities and goals to team and department
• Uses data to make decisions for staffing effectiveness
• Observes, identifies, and addresses human resources issues for assigned staff
• Coaches, counsels and develops staff to ensure the delivery of high quality patient care
• Maintains clinical competency by ensuring that the physiologic, psychosocial, and developmental needs of the patient are met within a Family-Centered care environment
• Supports the implementation of clinic goals (in collaboration with physician and clinic leadership) and communication of the organization’s strategic plan to staff
• Participates in clinic-based quality initiatives for the purpose of developing and monitoring clinical outcomes that demonstrate nursing excellence
• Provides direct patient care to support outpatient clinical operations and patient flow

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.