RN Ambulatory Team Lead – Primary Care

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Join Cleveland Clinic Akron General's Bath Health and Wellness Center and become part of a top healthcare system in Akron. This patient-friendly facility offers a variety of primary care, emergency care and specialty services along with Lifestyles, a medically based fitness program and facility.

Primary care caregivers are typically the first medical point of contact for patients, helping to manage your overall health, diagnose new illnesses and manage chronic diseases. As RN Team Lead, you will coordinate and oversee daily operations, workflows, delivery of care and caregiver education as needed. Some of your responsibilities will include direct patient support, while others are more clerical and administrative in nature. This position offers a unique opportunity to enhance both your nursing and management skills while encouraging team growth, facilitating a welcoming patient experience, and bettering your community.

A caregiver in this position works Monday - Friday 7:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. with occasional Saturdays from 7:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. requirements.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:

• Provide professional nursing care to a specific patient population in a variety of ambulatory settings.

• Assist in providing clinical oversight to assigned caregivers and patients to ensure quality and safe care.

• Coordinate and resolve daily operational issues.

• Perform duties of an RN Ambulatory.

• Ensure compliance with regulatory standards and patient safety initiatives.

• Facilitate orientation, teaching, coaching and mentoring of assigned caregivers.

• Assist in preparing department specific education.

• Participate in quality initiatives, process improvement and research activities to improve patient outcomes, experience and safety.
• Some RN Ambulatory work may require travel within the region to support physician clinics and surgical procedures in various locations.

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing (ADN or BSN Program)

• Current state licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN)

• Two years of recent RN experience

• Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification through the American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing (BSN)

• Previous Charge Nurse or supervisory experience
• Two years of Ambulatory RN experience

Physical Requirements:

• Requires full range of motion, manual and finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination.
• Requires corrected hearing and vision to normal range.
• May requires some exposure to communicable diseases or bodily fluids.
• Light Work - Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly (Constantly: activity or condition exists 2/3 or more of the time) to move objects.
• Even though the weight lifted may be only a negligible amount, a job should be rated Light Work: (1) when it requires walking or standing to a significant degree; or (2) when it requires sitting most of the time but entails pushing and/or pulling of arm or leg controls; and/or (3) when the job requires working at a production rate pace entailing the constant pushing and/or pulling of materials even though the weight of those materials is negligible.

Personal Protective Equipment:

• Follows Standard Precautions using personal protective equipment as required for procedures.

The policy of Cleveland Clinic Health System and its system hospitals (Cleveland Clinic Health System) is to provide equal opportunity to all of our caregivers and applicants for employment in our drug free environment. All offers of employment are followed by testing for controlled substances.

Cleveland Clinic Health System administers an influenza prevention program. You will be required to comply with this program, which will include obtaining an influenza vaccination on an annual basis or obtaining an approved exemption.

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