Clinical Director

The Center for Advanced Surgery, is seeking a motivated Clinical Director to join our team. Center for Advanced Surgery is a fast paced ASC environment committed to producing the highest quality work and experience for patients and their families.

Job Summary: Directs the nursing operations in the surgery center.

• Evaluates nursing activities to ensure patient care, staff relations, and efficiency of service. 
• Coordinates patient care with business office, pre-op, and PACU. 
• Supervises activities to ensure appropriate patient care, and monitors efficiency of service in the operating room.
• Observes nursing care and visits patients to ensure that nursing care is carried out as directed and treatment is administered in accordance with physicians’ instructions.
• Coordinates with physicians, medical staff, and administrator to ensure that effective communication is maintained.
• Coordinates with Materials Manager for equipment, special equipment, and supplies for upcoming surgical cases, and resolves any problems.
• Coordinates orientation of new employees. 
• Investigates and resolves complaints. Refers unusual problems to the Administrator. 
• Interacts appropriately and effectively with all patients/others regardless of age or ethnic background.
• Follows equipment safety guidelines. 
• Assists with environmental hazard and infection control surveillance, and participates in emergency preparedness drills.
• Ensures that Standard Universal Precautions, the National Patient Safety Goals, and principles of aseptic and sterile technique are used appropriately.
• Implements safe practices and provides knowledgeable guidance and evaluation of the environment of care management, including life safety (fire prevention), security, hazardous materials and waste management, emergency preparedness, infection control, the safe use of medical equipment, and utilities. 
• Ensures meaningful differences are implemented as outlined in the EDGE (Every Day Giving Excellence) Program. 
• Participates in review and revision of the policies and procedures at the Surgery Center. 
• Directs the hiring, selection, performance reviews, and training of medical personnel. 
• Calls on physicians to solicit their participation in the surgery center. 
• Orders or directs ordering of supplies including drugs, solutions, and equipment, and maintains records on narcotics.

Qualifications: Graduate of an approved school of nursing. Currently licensed in the state.  CPR required, advanced life support certification required.  One year experience required intra-operative setting.  Demonstrates clinical competency, leadership, and teaching capabilities. Physically and emotionally capable of performing responsibilities of position.

Job Behavior: Reflective of Mission Statement:

Demonstrates ability to work as a team member and to communicate directly and professionally. Is flexible, reliable, productive, patient-oriented, and self-motivated. Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served.  Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span.  He/she is able to identify and categorize each patient’s age-specific grouping of needs, such as those for an infant, adolescent, adult, or geriatric patient.  Maintains professional conduct and appearance.

Education and/or Experience: Graduate of an approved school of nursing. Currently licensed in the state.  CPR required, advanced life support certification required.  One year leadership experience required intra-operative setting.  Demonstrates clinical competency, leadership, and teaching capabilities. Physically and emotionally capable of performing responsibilities of position.

Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed written or oral instructions.  Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.  

Other skills and abilities: General familiarity with medical terminology as it pertains to anatomy and surgical procedures for an operating room.   

Physical Demands: Shall be physically able to stand, walk, and maintain varied body motions and positions for long periods of time.  Demonstrates manual dexterity.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  The employee shall be able to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects or tools.  The employee is required to stand, walk, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.  Shall be able to hear and speak.  Shall be able to move up to 100 pounds.

What We Offer

• Competitive wages 
• Opportunities to better yourself professionally 
• Health, Dental & Vision Coverage 
• 401(k) retirement plan 
• Paid Time Off (PTO) 
• Company Paid Holidays 
• Employee Assistance Programs 
• Health Savings Account/ Flexible Spending Account 
• Education Assistance 
• Short Term Disability and Long Term Disability Insurance 
• Travel Assistance when 100+ miles from home for business or vacation 
• Free parking

Who We Are

At USPI, we create relationships that create better care. We partner with physicians and health care systems to provide first class ambulatory solutions throughout the United States. We are committed to providing surgical services in the most efficient and clinically excellent manner.

USPI is committed to, and proud of our inclusive culture. An inclusive culture, in our view, is respectful of differences and nurtures and supports the contributions of each individual, while also embracing and leveraging diversity. A diverse workforce, combined with an inclusive culture, makes USPI stronger and better able to meet the needs of our diverse patient and physician population.

For more information about USPI, check out our website, Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn.

USPI’S EDGE™ (Every Day Giving Excellence)

USPI’S EDGE™ is the key to the differentiation of USPI as a customer-focused company.  The process of completing EDGE™ requirements establishes processes and measurements that are collected, assimilated, and shared throughout USPI.  All employees are involved with EDGE™.  The involvement can range from doing their jobs to taking on the role of gathering and/or entering data into the computer.  All employees shall at some time during their employment be required to participate in the EDGE™ program.

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