Nurse evening team lead (full-time)

The Clinical Team Lead directly responsible for ensuring the clinical needs of each child are implemented by supporting a multidisciplinary team approach to clinical care. The Clinical team Lead is also directly responsible for ensuring sufficient numbers of qualified staff are engaged in their work and are participating effectively as a team in the delivery of care. This position works in collaboration with families, and other multidisciplinary team members to meet each child’s needs. Provide direct care as needed.

Our complex medical home offers a warm, nurturing space for children and young adults needing around-the-clock medical care. Featuring a spacious home, caring staff, and a focus on community involvement and recreational activities, we create an inviting place where individuals with special healthcare needs can thrive.

Schedule

M-F 8-hour shifts evening hours with on call as scheduled

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Within the nursing scope of practice and physician’s orders, responsible for ensuring the implementation of each child’s care plan and for achieving the goals set forth in that care plan and ensuring clinical care is implemented according to best practices as defined by ChildServe policy and practice manuals.
• Responsible for ensuring care is documented accurately, completely, and timely as defined by nursing standards of practice and ChildServe policies and procedures and provides feedback to leadership on how the documentation system can be improved while also ensuring that each document of the clinical record is identified according to regulatory requirements.
• Responsible for ensuring staff are equipped to provide care; assigned staff are engaged in their work and that they are appropriately developed.
• Responsible for ensuring environment is maintained according to regulatory requirements.
• Works with home supervisor and ICF/MC manager on budgetary issues.
• Supervise the team through effective hiring, training, coaching, and performance management. Ensure development of staff to achieve high results. Promote engagement and satisfaction to drive retention. Collaborate with management team to identify opportunities for improvement.
• All other duties assigned.

What You’ll Need

• Must be able to pass a ChildServe physical examination at commencement of employment and thereafter as regulations require.
• Be able to withstand exposure to the usual childhood diseases and conditions associated with children with disabilities.
• Must obtain Basic Life Support (BLS) certification through American Red Cross or American Heart Association within 90 days and before working independently.
• Lift up to 35 lbs, be mobile within the clinic areas, and frequently bend, lift, reach, and stand.
• Maneuver within the physical work environment with some bending, stooping, reaching and light lifting.
• Maintain a calm demeanor in an environment that can change quickly with elevated behaviors and different demands.
• Ability to focus on details for long periods of time with regular interruptions.
• Work onsite with regular and predictable attendance.

Not sure if you hit 100% of the position expectations? Let's talk! Reach out to our Talent Acquisition team by emailing careers@childserve.org.

Make a Difference Every Day at ChildServe

ChildServe partners with families to help children with special healthcare needs live a great life. ChildServe is a leading pediatric healthcare provider with Iowa’s only children's specialty hospital, offering a variety of services and programs to meet each child’s unique needs. ChildServe’s four key specialty areas include: complex medical care, pediatric rehabilitation, autism and behavioral health, and community-based services. With a coordinated approach to care delivery, services are interwoven and streamlined, so families can address their child’s needs in one location. Established in 1928, ChildServe proudly provides more than 30 pediatric specialty services to nearly 6,000 children in Iowa each year. ChildServe is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. To request assistance with the application process, please email careers@childserve.org. ChildServe is an Equal Opportunity Employer.