Lead Clinician (LPN, RN)

Lead Clinician

Sono Bello is America's top cosmetic surgery specialist, with 185+ board-certified surgeons who have performed over 300,000 laser liposuction and body contouring procedures. A career at Sono Bello means being part of a dynamic and high-energy work environment where every team member can make a difference. We love what we do, and it shows! We believe everyone deserves to have their best body today and pursue their best life now.

The Lead Clinician assists the Practice Manager in overseeing the delivery of our trusted brand of service, the Sono Bello patient experience, and the efficient operations of daily clinical activities. They are seen as the clinical team lead, driving an effective and efficient daily flow resulting in strong KPI output and high team member satisfaction. The Lead Clinician responsibilities are balanced in tandem with the responsibilities of their core role as a member of the center clinical team defined by their licensure (ex. RN, LPN).

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Embodies the Sono Bello Mission Statement and Core Values by ensuring our patients' safety and experience is top priority, working with integrity, continually evolving, learning, and collaborating as a team to create a challenging and rewarding culture.
• Outstanding performance against the team member's core role within the center, as defined by their licensure. The time split performing the Lead Clinician and core role responsibilities is expected to be approximately 50/50.
• Supports day-to-day clinical activities in an accredited outpatient surgical facility, including delivery of quality care and maintaining and overseeing the efficiency of clinical operations.
• Assists the Practice Manager to build and communicate an effective nurse schedule. Establishes optimal clinical assignments that balance maximizing transformation surgery output with team member satisfaction; metrics to include clinic-on time starts, OR turnarounds, and on time appointment starts.
• Ability to access, review, and align company technology platforms (ex. Zenoti and CPB) to support operational efficiency.
• Acts with integrity to maintain patient confidentiality and always ensure HIPPA compliance while maintaining PHI disclosure records.
• Extensive knowledge of the companies' policies and procedures.
• Demonstrates knowledge of standard precautions, hand hygiene, transmission-based precautions, and personal protective equipment.
• Enforces policy adherence consistent with AAAHC guidelines to maintain superb Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Improvement (QI).
• Oversight of QA/QI reporting.
• Attends and participates in scheduled clinic and corporate meetings including staff education, in-services, and clinic staff meetings. Meetings that require minutes to be signed off will be owned by the lead clinician to ensure they huddle with the team to relay the information and get all sign offs.
• AAAHC preparedness and associated files are kept up to date with appropriate information.
• Performs chart audits including patient photos - responsible for clinical team member follow up and education as required.
• Advises and serves as a role model for clinical staff regarding patient care and clinical tasks, including: policy, procedure, SOPs, and Accreditation.
• Develop and maintain strong partnerships across all Team Members within the center, including communication and meeting cadence, building best practices, and displaying excellent judgement.
• Participates in interviewing and hiring all clinical candidates with the Practice Manager.
• Assists the Practice Manager with onboarding new clinicians, including setting up their onboarding schedule, assigning most appropriate preceptor(s), and following up with the new hire regularly to ensure successful onboarding. Becomes a certified as a "training mentor."

Education, Experience and Skills Required:

• Preferred LPN/ RN licensure, at minimum MA/ST certification.
• BA/BS Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience preferred but not required.
• Two or more years of clinical experience is required.
• Must maintain ACLS certification.
• 1-2 years of clinical leadership a plus.
• Experience in Cosmetic Practice or previous Medical Office Management a plus.
• Regular and predictable attendance is an essential function of the job.

Other Skills and Abilities:

• Strong organization and communication skills.
• Training aptitude.
• Experience or ability to perform audits utilizing established standards and systems, with the ability to communicate results and deficiencies in a manner that will impact outcomes.
• Proficiency with MS Office and can learn a variety of computer operating systems.
• Ability to handle sensitive and confidential matters in an appropriate way.
• Relationship building.
• Agility and adaptability.
• Innovation and creativity.
• Employee motivation.
• Decision-making.
• Conflict management.
• Critical Thinking.

Language Skills:

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of the organization. Mathematical Skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.

Reasoning Ability:

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Requires using the telephone and computer while communicating with internal and external customers and vendors. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands or fingers to handle or feel; and talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision. Employee will sit for several hours each day but will also need mobility and the ability to stand and walk for periods of time. Employee may need to lift up to 10 pounds on occasion. May require working under stressful conditions due to deadlines and time constraints.

Note: This job description outlines the primary duties and responsibilities of the role but is not intended to be all-inclusive. Additional tasks may be assigned, and existing responsibilities may be modified or removed as necessary to meet operational needs, within the scope of the individual's role, licensure, and applicable regulatory standards.

Compensation Range: $29 - $44 USD

Pay may vary by location, and actual compensation depends on factors like qualifications, experience, skills, and business needs. Sono Bello may adjust this range in the future. Full-time employees may also receive benefits such as incentives, equity, health coverage, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

Benefits Package includes Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, 401K, EAP, PTO, and Paid Holidays. (Benefits eligibility may vary based on employment status.)