Occup Hlth Wellness - Team Ldr Occupational Health

Job Title & Specialty Area :  Team Leader Occupational Health

Department :  Occupational Health & Wellness

Location :  Dallas & Plano, responsible for three locations

Shift :  Monday – Friday 8 : 00 a.m.- 4 : 30 p.m. + call requirements, can have some flexibility to be 4 10-hour shifts

Job Type :  Onsite

Why Children’s Health?

At Children's Health, our mission is to Make Life Better for Children, and we recognize that their health plays a crucial role in achieving this goal.

Through our cutting-edge treatments and affiliation with UT Southwestern, we strive to deliver an extraordinary patient and family experience, ensuring that every moment, big or small, contributes to their overall well-being.

Our dedication to promoting children's health extends beyond our organization and encompasses the broader community. Together, we can make a significant difference in the lives of children and contribute to a brighter and healthier future for all.

Summary :

The Team Leader, Occupational Health is responsible for providing leadership to the staff in collaboration with the Manager or Practice Administrator. Serves as a conduit between the employees and managers for the purpose of facilitating communication, overseeing orientation of new team members, and evaluating practice with a particular focus on quality and performance improvement. Responsible for the results and development of assigned team members. Plans and executes day-to-day operational needs by setting priorities, planning for and addressing staffing needs, and coordinating work across other teams as needed. Provides guidance, coaching, and feedback to team members and provides significant input to employment decisions, addresses performance issues and administers performance reviews. Monitors key metrics and analyzes information to solve on-going problems to improve team performance. Serves in various clinical nursing roles (i.e., direct care nurse, charge nurse, etc.). The Team Leader, Occupational Health will spend 50% of their time in direct patient care in Occupational Health and 50% of their time in administrative / leadership, recognizing that at least 10% of their time in the clinical shifts is still spent coaching, mentoring, and developing staff.

Responsibilities :

• Perform all aspects of the Occupational Health Nurse job description when providing direct patient care.
• People Leadership :
• Participates in the interview and selection process of new team members
• Administers periodic evaluations for new staff members
• Administers annual PEAC's / merit increases
• Provides performance feedback to staff, including the documentation and counseling of performance issues
• Maintains positive staff relations through Evidence Based Leadership and Just Culture
• Completes scouting reports and weekly rounding on staff
• Ensures that staff are kept abreast of changes within the unit, department, division, and organization
• Provides mentoring to staff and developmental opportunities to help team members achieve their career goals
• Administers disciplinary action to staff members when necessary, up to and including terminations, with support of manager and / or director and human resources
• Provides appropriate recognition to staff members
• Develops and implements Action Plans as a result of the feedback received from the annual Employee Opinion Survey
• Accountable to ensure that staff are meeting patient care needs, standards of safety, effectiveness, patient rights and guest relations
• Ensures that staff are delivering care with a team-orientation, an emphasis on good customer relations, sound clinical judgement and appropriate decision making abilities that take into consideration evidence based practice.
• Ensures that staff are responsible and accountable for prescribing, delegating and coordinating patient care. Uses clinical judgment based on nursing skills acquired through formal and informal experiential knowledge and evidence based guidelines to globally assess the patient's situation and through critical thinking and clinical decision making, develop an appropriate plan of care for the patient, with the aim of promoting comfort and healing and prevent any unnecessary suffering.
• Operational Leadership :
• Responsible for new hire scheduling with their assigned preceptors during orientation period
• Processes Lawson personnel actions for staff
• Balances staff schedules to ensure adequate coverage and skill mix on every shift
• Monitors trends with attendance and addresses any dependability issues with team members
• Approves PTO requests for team members
• Monitors FMLA / STD / LOA for team members
• Develops and maintains positive employee and leader relations
• Responsible for ensuring direct reports timecards are accurate and complete prior to bi-weekly payroll signoff and holds staff accountable for repetitive discrepancies in their timecards
• Regulatory & Quality Compliance :
• Ensures clean sweeps / unit-based audits are conducted
• Ensures readiness for disease specific certification audits (where applicable)
• Ensures regulatory readiness
• Conducts unit environmental rounds
• Monitors the expiration of staff licenses & certifications
• Ensures employee related paperwork is sent to HR for filing in a timely manner
• Ensures that Patient Health Information (PHI) is protected and secured at all times
• Adhere to all infection prevention initiatives (i.e., hand hygiene, proper disposal of waste)
• Miscellaneous :
• Maintains knowledge of unit-specific super users and ensures they remain qualified and proficient as a super user
• Conduct team member rounding
• Attend leadership meetings
• Complete projects and assignments as assigned
• Participates in committees as assigned
• Ensures that staff are providing education and facilitating learning for patient / employees in a way that demonstrates a sensitivity to recognize, appreciate, and incorporate differences related to diversity
• Collaborates with staff to assist in developing and implementing an appropriate plan of care in a way that promotes / encourages each person's contributions towards achieving the best patient outcomes
• Advocates for the patient and staff, represents the concerns of the patient / staff and staff members and identifies and assists in resolving any ethical and clinical concerns
• Maintains a body of knowledge and tools that allow them to manage whatever environmental and system resources exist for the staff members, within or across healthcare and non-healthcare systems
• Continuously inquires about the condition of the patient / employee through the ongoing process of questioning and evaluating the situation and directs treatment changes, if necessary, through collaboration with the healthcare team, inclusive of the patient and family.

This is a full-time position working Monday through Friday from 8 : 00 a.m. to 4 : 30 p.m.

You may be required to float occasionally to other Children's Health locations including Dallas, Plano and THD Clinics.(sStart time hours can be discussed during interviews)

Hourly Pay

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A Place Where You Belong

We put our people first. We welcome, value, and respect the beliefs, identities and experiences of our patients and colleagues. We are committed to delivering culturally effective care, creating meaningful partnerships in the communities we serve, and equipping and developing our team members to make Children’s Health a place where everyone can contribute.

Holistic Benefits – How We’ll Care for You :

As an equal opportunity employer, Children's Health does not discriminate against employees or applicants because of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, age, national origin, veteran or military status, disability, or genetic information or any other Federal or State legally-protected status or class. This applies to all aspects of the employer-employee relationship including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, promotion, transfer pay, training, discipline, workforce adjustments, termination, employee benefits, and any other employment-related activity.