# Nurse Clinical Leader

**Company**: Intermountain Health
**Location**: Murray, Utah
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $45.31 - $67.01
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Nurse Clinical Leader provides leadership and clinical expertise during their shift and within their department.

They manage unit resources and supervise personnel to ensure appropriate staffing levels based on the unique needs of patients on the unit, both clinically and financially.

The Nurse Clinical Leader serves as clinical support for staff and exemplifies competency and professionalism.

As a part of line management, this role will have significant leadership responsibilities, including leading change, scheduling, maintenance of staff competencies, new employee selection and orientation, constructive discipline, and completion of annual employee performance reviews.

The Nurse Clinical Leader provides leadership support for professional governance.

The Nurse Clinical Leader also works in a regularly scheduled bedside RN shift with the responsibility and accountability for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating the care of patients.

**Responsibilities:**

- Conducts thorough evaluations of physical, social, and psychological status, including cognitive, communication, and developmental skills when necessary.

- Models and fosters an environment of professionalism and employee engagement on the unit.

- Demonstrates the ability to set priorities and to coordinate and organize the department's patient care delivery through effectively managing time, supplies, and resources.

- Forecasts, develops, and communicates accurate information on admission, discharge, and transfer to ensure appropriate patient placement.

- Evaluates and promotes staff competency, performance, and compliance with policies and procedures.

- Evaluates department needs and develops and implements plans to move staff from novice to expert nurses in areas of practice, clinical competency, and patient experience.

- Integrates legal and ethical standards into practice, complies with regulatory standards, practices within scope of licensure, provides accurate and timely documentation.

- Makes and/or recommends decisions related to staffing and hiring needs, candidate evaluation and selection, new hire orientation, and caregiver retention.

- Ensures that staffing levels/skill levels match census/acuities for the department and assigns patient care and other responsibilities appropriate to skill and experience levels of individual caregivers.

- Assists staff members with direct patient care as needed.

- Shares responsibility for the day-to-day operations.

- Promotes safety, quality and experience for patients and caregivers.

- Oversight responsibilities for competency of staff.

- Oversight accountabilities for ongoing programs.

**Requirements:**

- Current Nursing License to practice as a Registered Nurse in state of practice.

- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification for Healthcare Providers.

- Bachelor's degree in nursing (BSN) from an accredited institution.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Demonstrated leadership and mentoring experience in assigned clinical area.

- Specialty Certification.

**Physical Requirements:**

- Ongoing need for employees to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.

- Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information.

- Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy.

- Expected to lift and utilise full range of movement to transfer patients.

- Need to walk and assist with transporting/ambulating patients and obtaining and distributing supplies and equipment.

## Skills

### Required
- Leadership
- Communication
- Problem-solving
- Clinical knowledge
- Resource management
- Patient safety
- Mentorship

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