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Position: Nurse Manager

Location: Central Florida, FL

Job Summary: The Nurse Manager is a leadership position with direct and indirect patient care responsibilities. This position, working in collaboration with the Director of Nursing (DON) and the Health Center Administrator (HCA), is expected to develop systems of care that foster a successful clinical care team environment to ensure optimal outcomes for patients’ health.

Responsibilities:

• Direct the daily clinical support staff activities towards the provision of safe, high quality, and efficient primary care to a patient population diverse in age, health status, and socio-economic level.
• Provide direct nursing care to patients.
• Develop systems of care that foster a successful clinical care team environment.

Qualifications:

• Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing.
• Must be a Registered Nurse with at least two (2) years’ experience or a Licensed Practical Nurse with at least five (5) years’ experience.
• BLS certification.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Knowledge of current professional nursing theory, practice, and techniques.
• Knowledge of current nursing practices in an outpatient primary care setting.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and leadership skills.

Primary Duties:

• Ensure that the practice of nursing within the organization is of the highest possible quality.
• Assign clinical and administrative duties to clinical support staff.
• Coordinate patient flow by troubleshooting scheduling difficulties, walk-ins, late patients, and emergencies.

Secondary Duties:

• Function as a professional nurse member of the health team, under the leadership of the DON.
• Make nursing assessments related to the health status of the patient and triage them appropriately.
• Provide nursing coverage in clinic emergency shortage situations.

Physical Requirements:

• Requires 80% or more time spent standing/walking.
• Independently mobile.
• Ability to lift weight equivalents to what would be required when occasionally assisting and positioning patients, repositioning equipment and lifting supplies.

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Statement: External and internal applicants, as well as position incumbents who become disabled, must be able to perform the essential job specific functions (listed within each job responsibility) either unaided or with the assistance of a reasonable accommodation to be determined by the organization on a case by case basis.