RN Team Leader - 3 South (36/E/N)

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

Job Description:

Essential Duties and Responsibilities of Team Leader includes but is not limited to the following:

• Demonstrates clinical expertise through excellent assessment of physical, mental, and psychological status of patients using age-appropriate knowledge to ensure care standards are met for the patient population
• Plans, evaluates and supervises care for all patients and others as assigned utilizing Core Values in the areas of service, team work, communication, respect for others and time/ priority management.
• Consistently models effective interpersonal and leadership skills necessary to promote effective collaborative working relationships with all members of the healthcare team to provide excellent service to patients served.
• Assists manager with daily operation of the unit to accomplish departmental goals
• Coordinates and participates in formal and informal educational programs, in-services and performance improvement activities to improve technical skills within and outside of specialty area.
• Demonstrates sound judgment and critical thinking skills.
• Demonstrates leadership in patient management which may include real time service recovery
• Demonstrates skills necessary to assist with augmentation, development, and implementation of policies and procedures based upon evidence based best practices and specialty standards.
• Collaborates and demonstrates interpersonal leadership skills with physicians, specialists, all inpatient/ outpatient nursing units, admitting, supervisors, and all health care team members promoting successful communication that is patient centered.
• Demonstrates the ability to deal effectively with stress relating to the changing organizational environment, personnel and patient care issues.
• Collaborates with interdisciplinary departments to facilitate flow of patients in and out of the department in a timely fashion. 
• Collaborates with the UBE to mentor and report on clinical knowledge of current staff
• Serves as mentor and resource to all staff
• Participates in the assessment of staff performance, in collaboration with the Director and or Manager, through contribution to individual staff performance reviews.
• Ensure unit and staff are in compliance with Regulatory Requirements
• Assures inventory is performed on all specialty carts, and equipment.
• Ensures all real time documentation is complete and performs all audits specific to clinical area, as indicated
• Attends 90% of the Team Leader team meetings.
• Attends 90% of unit based staff meetings. 

It is understood that this is a summary of key job functions and does not include every detail of the job that may reasonably be required.

Minimum Requirements:

• BSN; OR other advance degree considered; OR current enrollment in BSN program with completion within 1 year of hire into Team Lead position
• Current Charge experience required with demonstrated leadership skills
• Minimum of 2year’s RN experience in nursing area required
• AHA Basic Life Support required
• AHA ACLS and CPI required within 6months of hire into Team Lead position (dependent on unit)
• Department specific certification obtained within 6 months of hire into Team Lead position
• Current MA RN License required

Pay Range:

This position is covered by a collective bargaining agreement. The pay range listed for this position is the base hourly wage range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time.  The pay range for this position is established and governed by the terms of the applicable collective bargaining agreement. Employees hired into this position will receive compensation consistent with the terms of the applicable collective bargaining agreement.

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.

More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

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