Administrative House Supervisor (.3 FTE, Nights) in Kirkland, WA

Wage Range: $52.68 - $95.93

EvergreenHealth is seeking an Experienced Administrative House Supervisor to join the Nursing Resources team.

Job Summary:

Responsible for overall movement of patients in a safe efficient manner and ensuring optimal utilization of resources (including but not limited to staff, equipment, and supplies) to meet patient care needs. Responsible as a single point of contact for staff, physicians and others for centralized patient placement and promotes patient satisfaction as a leader by demonstration of extraordinary service. Functions as administrator on duty to make leadership decisions, provide direction and oversight with operational issues for all hospital departments during evening, nighttime, and weekend hours. The job works directly with the on-call leadership team.

Primary Duties:

1. Functions as administrator on duty to make leadership decisions, provide direction and oversight with operational issues for all hospital departments during evening, nighttime, and weekend hours. 2. Assess patient care requirements in each unit, by making rounds in the Emergency Department (ED), and all other areas of the hospital (according to departmental need/activity). Assist physicians and staff in admission criteria for assigning admission status to patients (observation/admission). 3.Develop and implement staffing plan for shift based on patient acuity, patient census, and available staff. Calls in on-call staff as needed. 4. Facilitates optimal clinical match of resources to patient needs by assigning patient placement, collaborating with staff, physicians, and ancillary departments to deploy staff; monitoring patient flow; directing and prioritizing activities to facilitate appropriate patient placement. 5. Maintains prompt, ongoing, and effective communication with administration, charge nurses and staff regarding admissions, discharges, and transfers. 6. Act as liaison to facilitate transfers in and out of EvergreenHealth. 7. Evaluates all patient care areas to ensure appropriate allocation of resources and beds to ensure budget guidelines are met. 8. Facilitates high productivity, staff satisfaction, and clinical excellence for shift. 9. Serve as a resource to staff for solving clinical problems. 10. Assist staff to efficiently utilize staffing resources to meet patient care requirements and other professional responsibilities. 11. Provides immediate follow-up, documentation, and communication of incidents to appropriate manager and director. 12. Respond to emergency situations (RRT, Code Blue, Heme Alert). Facilitates the activation of Stroke and STEMI teams via Pulsara. Assists as necessary, including completion of debriefs or huddles. 13. Act as a resource in identifying and/or solving administrative/operational problems. Contact representatives of departments not presently in the hospital for assistance with problem solving as needed in a timely manner. 14. Coordinate “Fit for Duty” assessments when Employee Health not available. Notify manager and director as appropriate. 15. Anticipate actual/potential problems that may occur on their shift and set shift priorities accordingly. 16. Work collaboratively with nursing and ancillary staff to solve problems in a fair, consistent manner. 17. Act as a resource, interpret and ensure adherence to EvergreenHealth and nursing philosophy, policies, and procedures. 18. Act as incident commander for emergency response until AOC (Administrator on Call) arrives. 19. Report to the administrator-on-call significant incidents and problems such as:

unusual patient or family problems or concerns

unusual physician concerns

borrowing or lending of major equipment or damage, utility outages, or security problems

public relations or media events, fire, disaster, bomb threats, matters of legal importance.

safety issues 20. Obtain materials/supplies from Materials Processing and/or the Storeroom for patient care when these departments are not open. 21. Provide support, guidance, and feedback on performance to staff. Ongoing timely feedback may be given verbally, written, or anecdotally. Written anecdotes are passed on to the nurse manager or director to be used as part of performance evaluation. Contribute to evening, night, and weekend staff performance evaluations as requested. 22. Consistently and independently follows established safety and infection control procedures. Intervenes in unsafe situations. 23. Performs other duties as assigned. License, Certification, Education or Experience: REQUIRED for the position:

Graduate of a nursing program (Nursing Diploma, Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN), Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree and/or Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) degree)

Licensed as a Registered Nurse in the State of Washington OR holding a multistate Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) license

Knowledge of Federal, State, and JC regulations and requirements

5 years in a leadership role with recent supervisory or leadership experience

Recent Inpatient clinical experience

Current Healthcare Provider BLS – American Heart Association by start date DESIRED for the position:

Master’s degree in nursing

Certification in Specialty or Leadership

Benefit Information: Choices that care for you and your family

At EvergreenHealth, we appreciate our employees’ commitment and contribution to our success. We are proud to offer the following benefits and resources for our per diem staff to help maintain and improve health and financial well-being.

Washington Paid Sick Leave (WPSL)

Participation in 457(b) retirement plan

Free parking

Cafeteria & Gift Shop Discount

View a summary of our total rewards available to full and part time benefit eligible EvergreenHealth team members by clicking on the link below.

Kirkland Employee Benefits | Kirkland, WA | EvergreenHealth

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