PACE Supervisor, RN

Position Summary:

Reporting to the PACE Clinical Services Manager, the PACE Clinical Services RN Supervisor is a proactive manager, responsible for site specific functionality, including day-to-day activities of PACE Nursing and clinical support teams. Responsibilities include ensuring direct and indirect nursing care to PACE participants, as well as performance management of Clinic RN's, Day Center LVN's, support clinical teams, and other clinical areas as assigned. This position acts as the clinical leadership liaison between the Site Medical Director and clinical teams, as well as working in conjunction with the Site Manager, to ensure fluency of daily operations, and high-quality outcomes for PACE participants.

Essential Functions of the Job:

• Ensures and monitors day-to-day direct and indirect nursing care/services to PACE participants in the Clinic and Day Center setting.
• Responsible for the day-to-day functions and resolution of workflow disruptions within the Clinic and Day Center, including but not limited to: proactive trouble shooting, review daily clinic schedule, staffing coverage, quality assurance, quality improvement, employee performance and time sheet management
• Coordinate services for complex client needs in Clinic and Day Center setting or delegation of complex tasks as appropriate.
• Identifies health crises and emergency situations and independently initiates appropriate action; including ability to effectively lead various codes until completion.
• Completion of administrative incident or accident reports as needed.
• Clearly and effectively communicates participant health status changes to appropriate team members and coordinates or delegates participant care with day center/clinic staff.
• Conducts routine staff meetings and regular 1:1 meetings with each team member.
• Ensures compliance with prescribed staffing ratios to meet patient care needs.
• Ensures that all medications and testing materials are not expired and stored in appropriate location and crash carts are complete and up to date.
• Ensures care provided conforms to accepted practice standards; provides correct treatments/procedures and other care as prescribed and according to patient care standards.
• Ensures participant and family education is provided by the nursing team as needed.
• Ensures all clinical quality measures are achieved, via conduction of routine audits and active participation in PACE QA processes in compliance with PACE requirements and regulations.
• Assists with the planning and preparation of the PACE annual CMS/DHCS audit.
• In coordination with the PACE Medical Director and the PACE Quality Manager, ensures that clinical protocols are followed, making recommendations for improvements, and instrumental in implementation of QA improvement plans.
• Ensures a safe work environment for all team members, and immediately takes appropriate steps to resolve any risks.16.Other duties as assigned.