Clinical Coordinator - Inpatient / PACU - Shriners Children's

Shriners Children’s is a family that respects, supports, and values each other. We are engaged in providing excellence in patient care, embracing multi-disciplinary education, and research with global impact. We foster a learning environment that values evidence based practice, experience, innovation, and critical thinking. Our compassion, integrity, accountability, and resilience defines us as leaders in pediatric specialty care for our children and their families.

We offer a competitive salary and benefit package, including medical, dental, vision, disability, retirement, health savings account (HSA), pet insurance, paid time off, continuing education and professional development opportunities. Other considerations include team-approached interdisciplinary care, friendly environment and the satisfaction that our patients are receiving the best care available.

Shriners Children's St. Louis has an opportunity for a Clinical Coordinator to provide professional assistance in directing, planning, coordinating and evaluating nursing care and delivery of patient care for the Inpatient, PACU, and EPACU Departments.  Join a team of professionals committed to improving children's lives.  Our top healthcare professionals excel in their practices and provide compassionate, family-centered care to children who need it most. 

• The Nurse Clinical Coordinator provides leadership, direction and clinical support to nursing staff to promote quality patient care and a safe work environment. 
• The successful leader will monitor staff performance, attendance/tardiness, and professional work environment with a team approach. 
• In this position, you'll be responsible for supervising orientation of new staff, educating staff on policies and procedures and always look for performance improvement opportunities.
• The Clinical Coordinates and supervises the care of patients and collaborates with other members of the health care team to plan, implement, and evaluate appropriate interventions.
• Assists in planning, evaluating, organizing, supervising and implementing activities related to patient and operational processes in accordance to unit / hospital policies and procedures.
• Assists with coordination, supervision, assessment, and evaluation of staff performance, Joint Commission (TJC) readiness and emergency preparedness.
• Develops, implements, and continually monitors the infection control policies and procedures for all departments.
• Implements an on-going surveillance system for detecting and monitoring hospital-acquired and community infections; ensures compliance to regulatory requirements.

Note: This is not an all-inclusive list of this job’s responsibilities. The incumbent may be required to perform other related duties and participate in special projects as assigned.   

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