Description

Are you an LPN or RN seeking a management position? Medical Associates is hiring a Clinical Manager to oversee the Galena Family Medicine department!

Where You Will Be Working:

Medical Associates Clinic is a physician owned multi-specialty group practice.  Our 200+ providers and 900 health care professionals lead the way in providing quality healthcare in Northeast Iowa, Southwest Wisconsin and Northwest Illinois. The Clinical Manager position supports and is based  out of the the Galena IL clinic.

What You Will Be Doing:

The Clinical Manager/Floor Nurse is a hybrid role that combines leadership responsibilities with hands-on patient care. This individual is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day clinical operations in Galena, ensuring the delivery of high-quality patient care, and managing nursing staff. In addition to these management duties, the Clinical Manager also works directly on the floor, providing patient care, supporting staff, and ensuring that clinical best practices are followed.

You will work in partnership with Department Chairpersons and your Clinical Director while working with physicians, advanced practice providers, and staff.  You will be responsible for the management and development of staff, payroll, scheduling, budgeting. You will positively initiate and lead change.

Schedule:
Core business hours for this position are Mon-Fri, 8-5:00 with flexibility to attend meetings outside core business hours on occasion.

What Skills You Bring:

• LPN or RN with clinic nursing experience required, leadership experience preferred
• Positive, energetic personality
• Strong communication skills, critical thinking, team building skills, and clinical/business knowledge
• Effective organization skills, multitasking, and follow-through
• Flexible with your schedule to attend meetings as needed and open to gaining new responsibilities
• Open to change and willing to take on projects

Essential Functions & Responsibilities:

• Facilitate the organization and coordination of delivering quality patient care within the department. May include assisting with direct patient care.
• Perform managerial responsibilities, which may include but are not limited to: preparing annual budgets, attending meetings, collecting/compiling data and preparing reports. Facilitate medical records management, results, data entry and business office activities, including establishing appropriate coding and charging mechanisms for the department.
• Work alongside nursing staff on the floor, providing direct patient care including assessments, administering medications, and coordinating treatments.
• Serve as a clinical resource for the nursing team, offering expertise and support in complex or critical situations.
• Manage selection, training, development, performance evaluation, and performance issues for direct reports. Prepare schedule and assign work to assure adequate staffing levels to deliver a high level of patient service.
• Interpret and comply with regulations, policies, and procedures, which may include but is not limited to: completing incident reports, evaluating safety of equipment, credentialing in area of responsibility, and enforcing CLIA regulations governing laboratory functions.
• Complete all other assigned projects and duties.

Knowledge & Skills:

Education:  Associates or Bachelor’s Degree in related field from an accredited institution or specialized course of study/certification at a business or trade school. Current LPN or RN license. 

Experience: Five to ten years of similar or related experience. Management experience preferred. 

Interpersonal Skills:  A significant level of trust and diplomacy is required, in addition to normal courtesy and tact.  Work involves extensive personal contact with others inside and/or outside the organization, and/is usually of a personal or sensitive nature.  Work may involve motivating or influencing others.  Outside contacts become important (vendor reps, labs, offices, hospital, etc.) and fostering sound relationships with other entities (companies and/or individuals) becomes necessary.

Other Skills: Use and operate a wide variety of diagnostic and medical equipment including laboratory analyzers.  Use personal protection safety equipment including gloves, lab coats, gowns, goggles, and face masks/shields.  Microsoft Office products including Outlook, Word, and Excel.

Physical Aspects:

Reaching - Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.

Pushing - Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.

Pulling - Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, drag, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.

Lifting - Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles.

Fingering - Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand or arm as in handling.

Grasping - Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.

Feeling - Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.

Talking - Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly or quickly.

Hearing - Perceiving the nature of sound with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and to make fine discriminations in sound, such as when making fine adjustments on machined parts.

Vision - 20 / 40 or better in the best eye with or without correction.

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 to move objects. If the use of arm and/or leg controls requires exertion of forces greater than that for Sedentary Work and the worker sits most of the time, the job is rated for Light Work.

Environmental Conditions:
Subject to Physical Hazards - Includes a variety of physical conditions, such as proximity to moving mechanical parts, electrical current, working on scaffolding and high places, exposure to high heat or exposure to chemicals.

Medical Associates Clinic & Health Plans is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, national origin, marital status, parental status, disability, veteran status, or other distinguishing characteristics of diversity and inclusion, or any other protected status. Please view Equal Employment Opportunity Posters provided by OFCCP here.