Nurse Manager (RN)

The Nurse Manager is a valuable member of our Physical Health team who is responsible for managing the daily operations related to care team responsibilities including the direct supervision of the Medical Assistants (MA) and Registered Nurses (RN). This position is a working RN role and will spend approximately 50% time performing administrative duties and 50% time providing direct client care. The Nurse Manager will work in a dyad with the Office Manager to ensure optimal client flow, improved client experience and standardization of operations in the health center to identified best practice standards.

Scheduled Hours:

40 hours per week Monday to Friday (8:00AM - 4:00PM) 4 hours scheduled a week at School Based Health Center Provides direct supervision of RNs and MAs, ensuring appropriate assessment, treatment, and documentation of client health and compliance with established regulations and standards. Serves as key problem-solving resource for staff on client issues. Receives, analyzes, and takes appropriate action on data that includes client outcomes, quality assurance results, budget/goal achievement, and performance/productivity (e.g., Uniform Data System (UDS)) measures, Tableau Reports, NextGen Reports, etc.), reviews and proposes improvement opportunities to the Practice Manager and Health Center Medical Director. Ensures that the care teams are staffed appropriately and works with peers to find coverage. Performs monthly documentation audits on five random client records/direct report to ensure documentation is completed per established protocol. Collaborates with Human Resources/Recruitment Department on recruiting, selecting, orienting training, and evaluating new RN and MA staff. Leads monthly one-on-one meetings with direct reports, care team meetings, communications, training, and annual performance evaluations. Ensures licensure, annual competencies, trainings, and evaluations are completed for direct report staff. Participates in continual accreditation/regulatory compliance and ensures direct reports are compliant with accreditation and regulatory standards. Ensures Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment Waiver compliance by direct reports. Ensures productive, daily huddles are being performed by care teams. Ensures that clinical supplies, including vaccines, are organized and up to date. Participates in planning related to health center and emergency/disaster response system. Provides direct client care. Maintains confidentiality of privileged information and adheres to client privacy laws. Current Illinois Registered Nurse license Minimum five years of professional nursing experience including two years' clinical supervisory experience, preferably in a medical practice setting. Current American Health Association Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation certification For internal candidates - 5 years of nursing experience. Clinical supervisory experience requirements may be offset by performance, skills and leadership potential demonstrated during time as an employee. As the largest human service provider in Lake County, we believe that services must be available without barriers. No residents are turned away due to the inability to pay. We believe in providing services in an environment of mutual respect, free of discrimination or bias. Whether assuring accessible and effective care, impacting policy, or assessing and monitoring risks, the Lake County Health Department and Community Health Center has been an essential part of the public health system in Lake County for 60 years. We are looking for passionate, qualified team members who can help make a difference in our agency and, most importantly, in our community. Additional information about the Lake County Health Department, our culture, and why you should join our team can be found at https://lakecountyil.attract.neogov.com/health-department . At this time, you must live in Illinois or Wisconsin to be eligible to work at Lake County Health Department. You can find our salary grades at https://www.lakecountyil.gov/4515/Salary-Grades . For unionized positions, a list of our collective bargaining agreements can be found here: https://www.lakecountyil.gov/2686/Collective-Bargaining-Agreements . Any offer of employment is conditioned on the successful completion of a background screening, drug and alcohol testing and may include a pre-employment medical exam. The Lake County Health Department and Community Health Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.