Overview
Saint Joseph Mount Sterling is a not-for-profit faith-based hospital located in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. The hospital was founded in 1918—formerly known as Mary Chiles Hospital—and now serves as a 42-bed community hospital for the residents of Bath, Bourbon, Clark, Menifee, Montgomery, Nicholas, Powell, and Rowan counties. CHI Saint Joseph Health supports 5000 active employees, 8 hospitals, specialty clinics, and a Medical Group with more than 200 locations across Central and Eastern KY. CommonSpirit Health was formed by the alignment of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health in 2019. With our combined resources, CommonSpirit is committed to building healthy communities, advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable, and innovating how and where healing can happen both inside our hospitals and out in the community.
Responsibilities
This position is responsible and accountable for total unit/s operations on a 24-hour basis to include fiscal management, staff development, and resource management with the ultimate goal of achieving quality and safe patient care.
Essential Key Job Responsibilities
- Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served.
- Supervises assigned professional, technical, and clerical staff of the department to ensure the quality of work.
- Manages the workflow of the unit to ensure the delivery of quality patient care.
- Implements and supports patterns and ensures availability of sufficient qualified staff to meet patient care needs.
- Develops staffing patterns and ensures availability of sufficient qualified staff to meet patient care needs.
- Works to develop and retain highly skilled and well-rounded staff including hiring, orienting, training, directing work, evaluating performance, and assuring clinical competency.
- Contributes to the effective management of the department including supplies, equipment, space, technology, policies, and procedures.
- Contributes to the financial viability of the organization including managing productivity and budgeting process.
- Maintains effective working relationships, communication, and collaborative decision making with medical staff, other departments, leaders, staff, and others.
- Assists the organization in maintaining and achieving its goals related to licensure, regulatory, and accreditation standards.
- Demonstrates commitment to professional growth and competence.
- Responsible for accurate and timely delivery of various reports including staff schedules, payroll, labor productivity, IRIS, and others as assigned.
Participates in community activities on behalf of the organization.
The job summary and responsibilities listed above are designed to indicate the general nature of the work performed within this job. They are not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all job responsibilities required of employees assigned to this job. Employees may be required to perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Required Education and Experience:
- BSN Degree
- Minimum of 3 years RN experience
- Minimum of 2 years leadership (i.e. RN-Charge) experience
- Equivalent leadership capabilities will be considered in lieu of the leadership experience requirement based on executive leadership approval.
Required Licensure and Certifications:
- RN:KY
- BLS-CPR within 5 days
- ACLS within 6 months
- NRP within 3 months
Required Minimum Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Training:
- Must be able to demonstrate advanced skills and abilities of a registered nurse, practicing within the nursing scope of practice.
- Must have ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
- Also, be able to interpret an extensive variety of instructions and deliver successful results.
- Critical thinking and problem solving skills and must be moderately advanced with experience in handling complex situations and conflicts.
- Microsoft Office, Clinical Documentation, Payroll system.
Pay Range$38.63 - $57.56 /hour
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