Overview:

Summary:
Assists the Department Director in planning, directing and coordinating the operational, financial and personnel activities of the designated departments. Provides clinical and operational leadership for areas assigned

Type of Opportunity: Part Time (.45 to .89)
FTE: 0.800000
Exempt: Yes
Work Schedule: Varied Days and Hours

Qualifications:

Other information:
Other information:
Licensure: State of New Mexico or Compact State Nursing License or Graduate Nurse Permit required
Academic Preparation:
Degree from accredited academic nursing program (If a program is under conditional status, approval may be granted by system CNO)
Minimum ADN preparation with expectation of BSN completion within 3 years of hire

UPDATED: 5/2/2019

Education:
Essential:
Associate Degree
Nonessential:
Bachelor Degree

Education specialization:
Nonessential:
Nursing

Credentials:
Essential:
Registered Nurse-NM

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities:
Leadership Competencies
A. Leads Self: Foundational knowledge of the master competencies
B. Leads Team: Ability to manage and direct team and unit operations
C. Leads PHS: Ability to achieve results
a. Performance Dimensions
i. Managing the Business
1. Human resources: Manages the processes of recruitment, interviewing, and selection of candidates
2. Orientation of new staff: Overseeing the outcomes of orientation processes and retention of new hires. Addresses areas of opportunity to meet organizational goals.
3. Labor Laws: Facilitates and holds accountabilities to supporting an environment maintaining compliance with state and federal labor laws.
4. Process Improvement: Drives the monitoring and interventions to achieve results including quality indicators/targets, utilization of performance tools to improve processes and outcomes, optimizing patient safety, maintaining a continuous regulatory ready environment, and optimizes communication between all work groups.
5. Foundational thinking: Uses analytical, data-driven techniques for decision-making processes that will structure work models and support evidence-based practice
6. Technology: Proficient in using computer based skills/applications, clinical based technologies supporting patient care including electronic medical record, medication management, integrates technology into patient care processes and to support work systems. Support environment and staffing to provide a super-user environment for enhancing technical learning into at the point of care performance.
7. Strategic management: Contributes to or drives work plans to achieve optimal patient care and organizational results to the point of care, written reports of outcomes, presentation to key business audiences.
8. Clinical practice knowledge: Has understanding of nursing and care processes supporting clinical care practice in service area(s).
9. Financial management: Drives financial components of unit operations including budget creation, monitoring, analyzing, report variances in areas of responsibility. Responsible for achieving established target.
ii. Leading People
1. Human resource leadership skills: Manages staff performance including evaluations, goal setting, development plans; ability to achieve staff engagement and satisfaction, mentoring. Participation in succession planning; models professional standards and behaviors. Seeks input from key clinical leadership staff.
2. Relationship management: Provides leadership at the point of care by applying communication skills that optimize active listening, inquiry; use effective dialogue, conflict management techniques, negotiation, and mediation skills for assigned areas. Maintains open, collaborative relationships with key stakeholders and healthcare partners.
3. Diversity: Maintains and holds staff accountable for an environment that upholds the cultural/population specific standards for those served; maintain an environment that upholds a diverse workforce.
4. Shared decision making: Advocates and supports the process of shared governance and shared decision-making.
iii. Professionalism
1. Professional and personal accountability: Role models the value of continuous learning including academic advancement, continuing education, and maintains currency on current care practices. Actively involved in performing annual self-assessment and on-going development action plan.
2. Career Planning: Assesses career planning/goals and develops/implements continuous learning and activities to support goal path.
3. Personal Journey: Actively reflects on continuous learning activities, utilizes action-learning techniques to identify and act on areas of strength and opportunities.
4. Reflective Practice: Incorporates and role models integrity, ability to maneuver ambiguity, seeks and acts on the potential within self and others, supports and fosters C.A.R.E.S. behaviors, supports a just culture.
iv. C.A.R.E.S. Behaviors: Provides in the moment leadership at the point of care and supports, fosters, and holds self and staff answerable to C.A. R. E.S. behaviors (Continuous learning, accountability, respect/respond, environmental safety, and superior outcomes).
v. Professional Practice Model: Synergy
1. Synergy Model: Within the patient care environment manages staff performance and accountabilities to incorporate (1) Clinical judgment and action, (2) Patient advocacy, (3) Caring practices, (4) Collaboration within the interprofessional team, (5) Systems thinking, (6) Response to diversity, (7) Facilitation of learning, and (8) Clinical Inquiry.

Professional Requirements:

1. Maintains current professional licensure
2. Educational Requirements
a. Nurse Managers hired or rehired on/after July 2012, without BSN are hired under the contingency that they enroll and begin their BSN courses within 12 months of hire or rehire and they must complete their BSN program within 48 months of hire or rehire.
3. Exceptions to Educational Requirements
a. The PHS Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer and/or CDS Assistant Chief Nursing Officer/Regional Director of Patient Care Services may consider exceptions to these requirements.
b. If on July 2012, if the registered nurse is 55 years or older, the nurse will be grandfathered into new job profile and this requirement waived.
4. Professional emergency response training requirements as specified by service area
a. CDS Inpatient
i. Current BLS required
ii. Additional Requirements based upon area of service
1. Progressive Care: Current ACLS required
2. Adult Intensive Care: Current ACLS required
3. Adult Cardiac Critical Care: Current ACLS required
4. Emergency Department: Current ACLS/PALS required
5. Pediatrics: Current PALS required
6. PICU: Current PALS required
7. Newborn Nursery: Current NRP required
8. NICU: Current NRP required
9. Family Birthing Center: Current NRP/Fetal monitoring required; permanent charge ACLS required
10. Mother-Baby Care-Current NRP required
11. Operating Room: Current ACLS, PALS required
12. PACU: Current ACLS, PALS required
b. CDS Outpatient
i. Primary care clinics: Current BLS required
ii. Specialty care clinics: Current BLS required, Chemotherapy certification required in Oncology
iii. Urgent Care: Current BLS required
iv. Pediatric Urgent Care: Current BLS/PALS required
c. Regional Critical Access Hospitals
i. Medical- Surgical: Current BLS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
ii. Critical Care: Current BLS/ACLS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
iii. Emergency Department: BLS/ACLS/PALS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
iv. Family Birthing Center: Current BLS/NRP/fetal monitoring required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
v. Operating Room: Current ACLS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
d. Regional Non-Critical Access Hospital
i. Medical- Surgical: Current BLS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
ii. Critical Care: Current BLS/ACLS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
iii. Emergency Department: Current PALS (PRMC), ACLS/TNCC (Espanola)/ENPC (Espanola) required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
iv. Family Birthing Center: Current BLS/ NRP/STABLE required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
v. Operating Room: Current BLS/ACLS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
vi. Day Surgery: Current BLS/ACLS required . Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
e. Home Care/Hospice
i. Home care: Current BLS required
ii. Hospice: Current BLS required
iii. Inpatient Hospice: Current BLS required

Benefits:

We offer more than the standard benefits!

Presbyterian employees gain access to a robust wellness program, including free access to our on-site and community-based gyms, nutrition coaching and classes, wellness challenges and more!

Learn more about our employee benefits:

https://www.phs.org/careers/why-work-with-us/benefits

Why work at Presbyterian?

As an organization, we are committed to improving the health of our communities. From hosting growers markets to partnering with local communities, Presbyterian is taking active steps to improve the health of New Mexicans. For our employees, we offer a robust wellness program, including free access to our on-site and community-based gyms, nutrition coaching and classes, wellness challenges and more.

Presbyterians story is really the story of the remarkable people who choose to work here. The hard work of our physicians, nurses, employees, board members and volunteers grew Presbyterian from a tiny tuberculosis sanatorium to a statewide healthcare system that serves more than 875,000 New Mexicans.

About Presbyterian Healthcare Services

Presbyterian Healthcare Services exists to improve the health of patients, members and the communities we serve. We are a locally owned, not-for-profit healthcare system of nine hospitals, a statewide health plan and a growing multi-specialty medical group. Founded in New Mexico in 1908, we are the states largest private employer with nearly 14,000 employees - including more than 1,600 providers and nearly 4,700 nurses.

Our health plan serves more than 580,000 members statewide and offers Medicare Advantage, Medicaid (Centennial Care) and Commercial health plans.

About Our Regional Delivery System

Presbyterians Regional Delivery System is a network of six hospitals and medical centers throughout rural New Mexico including locations in Clovis, Espanola, Ruidoso, Santa Fe, Socorro and Tucumcari. Our regional facilities are home to more than 1,600 clinical and non-clinical employees who help make Presbyterian the states largest private employer with nearly 14,000 statewide employees. With a variety of services ranging from general surgery to pediatrics to heart and cancer care, our regional employees are proud to provide close-to-home care for their communities.

We are part of New Mexicos history - and committed to its future. That is why we will continue to work just as hard and care just as deeply to serve New Mexico for years to come.

About New Mexico

New Mexico continues to grow steadily in population and features a low cost-of living.

Varied landscapes bring filmmakers here from around the world to capture a slice of the natural beauty New Mexicans enjoy every day. Our landscapes are as diverse as our culture - from mountains, forests, canyons, and lakes, to caverns, hot springs and sand dunes.

New Mexico offers endless recreational opportunities to explore and enjoy an active lifestyle. Venture off the beaten path, challenge your body in the elements, or open yourself up to the expansive sky. From hiking, golfing and biking to skiing, snowboarding and boating, it's all available among our beautiful wonders of the west.

AA/EOE/VET/DISABLED. PHS is a drug-free and tobacco-free employer with smoke free campuses.

Maximum Offer for this position is up to: USD $63.87 Compensation Disclaimer: The compensation range for this role takes into account a wide range of factors, including but not limited to experience and training, internal equity, and other business and organizational needs.