Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare

Clinical Manager Emergency Care Center

Location: Racine, WI

The Clinical Manager operates from a knowledge base and skill set which incorporates advanced population-specific clinical practice, staff development, and management concepts and competencies. The Clinical Manager is accountable for activities within her/his assigned areas of responsibility, including serving as a leader, role model, and change agent within the unit, division, organization, profession, and community. This clinical manager will manage the operations of a single patient care unit, multiple patient care units or units in multiple geographic locations and the supporting staff. This manager also creates, maintains, and promotes a professional practice environment which is consistent with the vision and philosophy for professional practice of the Patient Care Services Division. The individual builds and maintains effective unit-based teams and promotes teamwork across patient care units and across departmental boundaries and collaborates with other departments and disciplines to improve patient care and support services. The incumbent utilizes quality monitoring outcomes to improve or modify unit-based services and provides ongoing feedback to unit staff regarding quality monitoring and other performance indicators, i.e., strategic initiatives, productivity, safety, infection control, etc. The Clinical Manager establishes and maintains unit staff competency in all defined areas of performance and clinical practice and provides ongoing performance feedback to individual staff members, i.e., timely, annual performance appraisal, guidance in established professional goals, and appropriate development plan, when performance issues exist. The individual recruits and retains qualified human resources in order to maintain the established position control and skill mix targets and prepares and submits accurate, timely, and well-justified budgets for all areas of responsibility. The Clinical Manager monitors cost center budget compliance on a monthly basis and submits timely financial variance reports, as indicated.

Skills/Requirements

Evidence of strong clinical nursing experience with progressively increasing involvement with leadership activities. Excellent interpersonal, organizational, communication skills required. Must possess demonstrated management and leadership abilities.

Bachelor's degree required; BSN preferred. Active WI RN license required. 3-4 years (minimum) supervisory experience highly desired, preferrably in an Emergency Dept setting.