Description

This position will support the Department of Pediatrics Clinical Research Unit.

The Center for the treatment of Pediatric Neurodegenerative Disease strives to centralize care for children afflicted with these rare, chronic, and debilitating diseases. The Center includes a multidisciplinary team of physicians and other healthcare providers offering comprehensive services to aid in the diagnosis, management, and social support of children and their families suffering from neurodegenerative diseases.

The Center is comprised of multiple sub-specialty clinics such as the Mitochondrial Clinic, the Leigh Syndrome Clinic, the Lysosomal Clinic, the Ataxia Telangiectasia Clinic, and Pedi Move.

The Center actively participates in a variety of clinical studies including expanded access programs, patient registries, natural history studies, and investigational clinical trials. This work investigates groundbreaking therapies to find treatment, and ultimately cures, for devastating genetic neurodegenerative diseases of childhood.

Position Summary:

Responsible for the management, evaluation and coordination of clinical personnel. May direct and coordinate operational, clinical and administrative services for a clinic or clinics.

Position Key Accountabilities:

• Provides direction, organization, and supervision to a large nursing and clinical staff to assure high quality patient care.
• Coordinates the schedules of nursing staff members to ensure adequate coverage and provides maximum utilization of manpower based on patient acuity and staffing guidelines while considering the skill mix of the staff.
• Initiates and conducts interdisciplinary meetings with all treatment staff (physicians, therapists, case managers, nursing staff, and medical assistants) under their supervision in an effort to provide a cohesive team approach for patient care.
• Provides guidance and mentors new nurse managers based on their senior management skill set.
• Leads practice-wide initiatives related to clinical staff issues or patient care issues by chairing and organizing committees.
• Monitors availability of supplies and plans for replacement of necessary items and purchase of new items to assure efficient clinic operations.
• Instructs, counsels and monitors performance as well as provide performance coaching to nursing staff, medical assistants, and/or clerical staff to assure high quality patient care.
• May autonomously and independently direct and coordinate operational, clinical and administrative services for clinic(s).
• May oversee all clinic facilities and equipment management, which includes maintaining a clean, safe environment for clinical inspections for regulatory agencies.
• Responsible for the economical/efficient and quality performance of assigned clinic(s). Formulates goals and outcomes using an evidence-based and theoretical analysis of available data to reduce patient and community risks.
• May manage the daily business operations, including purchasing and marketing.
• May prepare the annual budget for department-level review and approval.
• May maintain employee and patient incident report files.
• Ensures compliance with regulatory and accrediting agency specifications to meet federal, state and local standards.
• Responds to emergency situations.
• Manages the operating budget for area of responsibility.
• Manages Human Resources activities of department in regards to: recruiting and selection, hiring and termination, training, professional development, mentoring, counseling, performance evaluations, and salary planning.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Certification/Skills:

• Registered Nurse (RN) State Licensure or Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) by Texas Board of Nursing (BON) required
• Basic Life Support (BLS) by American Heart Association (AHA) required
• Clinical specialty certification determined by the department required
• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) by American Heart Association (AHA) preferred
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) by American Heart Association (AHA) preferred

Minimum Education:
Bachelor's Degree in Nursing required Master's Degree preferred
Minimum Experience:
7 years of nursing to include four years nursing supervisory experience required
Physical Requirements:
Exerts up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 20 pounds frequently and/or up to 10 pounds constantly to move objects.
Security Sensitive:
This position is a security-sensitive position pursuant to Texas Education Code §51.215 and Texas Government Code §411.094. To the extent that a position requires the holder to research, work on, or have access to critical infrastructure as defined in Texas Business and Commerce Code §117.001(2), the ability to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure is a minimum qualification to be hired for and to continue to be employed in that position. Personnel in such positions, and similarly situated state contractors, will be routinely reviewed to determine whether things such as criminal history or continuous connections to the government or political apparatus of a foreign adversary might prevent the applicant, employee, or contractor from being able to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure. A foreign adversary is a nation listed in 15 C.F.R. §791.4.
Residency Requirement:

Employees must permanently reside and work in the State of Texas.